Reclaiming ‘Provincialism’ Through Poetry and Translation: From 19th-Century ‘Dialect Poets’ to Present-Day ‘Transplantations’ into Minority Languages

Italian Studies Research Seminar Series Reclaiming ‘Provincialism’ Through Poetry and Translation: From 19th-Century ‘Dialect Poets’ to Present-Day ‘Transplantations’ into Minority Languages Speaker: Valentina Gosetti, University of New England Throughout Italian and French literary history, various poets have reacted in creative and transgressive ways against the powerful homogenising forces constructing national identity, not least an artificial …

‘Di certa similitudine dipinto’: The Imagination and Love in the Italian Renaissance

Italian Studies Research Seminar Series ‘Di certa similitudine dipinto’: The Imagination and Love in the Italian Renaissance Speaker: Anna Corrias, University of Queensland During the Renaissance, the imagination was considered a crucial mental power which played a key role in the general well-being of the individual as well as in his cultural, social, and religious …

Rethinking Translation: From Theory to Pedagogy

Rethinking Translation: From Theory to Pedagogy The Italian Studies Research Seminar Series and the Translatability of Cultures Reading Group are pleased to introduce Professor Loredana Polezzi (Cardiff University) Abstract Translation suffers from a bad reputation in the context of language learning. Rigidly defined as a process of transfer which transforms an original Source Text, written …

Italian Studies Research Seminar Series: Giordano Bruno to Sir Philip Sidney

Italian Studies Research Seminar Series Giordano Bruno to Sir Philip Sidney   The Dedicatory Letter of Lo spaccio della bestia trionfante (The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast) Speaker: Hilary Gatti (Sapienza University of Rome) The long and complex dedicatory letter Giordano Bruno wrote to Sir Philip Sidney prefacing Lo Spaccio della Bestia Trionfante (1584) is well known …