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Annali d'Italianistica

Francis Petrarch and the European Lyric Tradition
List of plenary speakers:

PETRARCH, ANTIQUITY, AND ITALIAN POETRY
Giuseppe Velli, University of Milan, Italy
Some of his major studies include:
Petrarca e Boccaccio: tradizione, memoria, scrittura. Padova: Antenore, 1979. 1995.
Tra lettura e creazione: Sannazaro, Alfieri, Foscolo. Padova: Antenore, 1983.

Michelangelo Picone, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Some of his major studies include:
Dante e le forme dell'allegoresi. Ravenna: Longo, 1987.
Der Antike Roman und seine mittelalterliche Rezeption. (Ed.) Basel: Birkäuser, 1997.
L'enciclopedismo medievale. (Ed.) Ravenna: Longo, 1994.
International Dante Seminar 1997 (Ascona, Switzerland): mito e poesia. (Ed.) Firenze: Cesati, 1999.
International Dante Seminar 2000: Florence, Italy. Dante, da Firenze all'aldilà. (Ed.) Firenze: Cesati, 2001.
Ovidius Redivivus: von Ovid zu Dante. (Ed.) Stuttgart: M & P, 1994.
Vita nuova e tradizione romanza. Padova: Liviana, 1979.
Inferno. (Ed.) Firenze: Cesati, 2000.
Purgatorio. (Ed.) Firenze: Cesati, 2001.
Paradiso. (Ed.) Firenze: Cesati, 2002.

Karlheinz Stierle, University of Constance, Germany
"A Manifesto of New Singing: The Canzoni-Group 125-129 in Petrarch's Canzoniere."
Some of his major studies include:
Dunkelheit und Form in Gérard de Nervals "Chimères". München: Fink, 1967.
Text als Handlung. München: Fink, 1975.
Petrarcas Landschaften: Zur Geschichte ästhetischer Landschaftserfahrung. Krefeld, 1979.
Der Mythos von Paris. (French translation: La capitale des signes. Paris et son discours). München: Hanser, 1993.
Ästhetische Rationalität. Kunstwerk und Werkbegriff. München: Fink, 1997.
Petrarca. Fragmente eines Selbstentwurfs. München: Hanser, 1998.

Sara Sturm-Maddox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Some of her major studies include:
Froissart across the Genres. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998.
The Medieval French Alexander. (Ed.) Albany: SUNY P, 2002.
Melusine of Lusignan: Founding Fiction in Late Medieval France. (Ed.) Athens: U of Georgia P, 1996.
Lorenzo de' Medici. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1974.
Petrarch's Laurels. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1992.
Petrarch's Metamorphoses: Text and Subtext in the Rime sparse. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1985.
Ronsard, Petrarch and the Amours. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1999.

Paul Colilli, Laurentian University, Canada
Some of his major studies include:
The Angel's Corpse. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
The Idea of a Living Spirit: Poetic Logic as a Contemporary Theory. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997.
Petrarch's Allegories of Writing. Napoli: N. De Dominicis, 1988.
PETRARCH AND BRITISH POETRY
Gordon Braden, University of Virginia, USA
"Petrarch and Wyatt."
Some of his major studies include:
The Classics and the English Renaissance Poetry: Three Case Studies. New Haven: Yale UP, 1978.
Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance. New Haven: Yale UP, 1999.
Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition: Anger's Privilege. New Haven: Yale UP, 1985.
The Idea of the Renaissance, co-authored with William Kerrigan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989.

PETRARCH AND BRITISH POETRY
Gordon Braden, University of Virginia, USA
"Petrarch and Wyatt."
Some of his major studies include:
The Classics and the English Renaissance Poetry: Three Case Studies. New Haven: Yale UP, 1978.
Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance. New Haven: Yale UP, 1999.
Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition: Anger's Privilege. New Haven: Yale UP, 1985.
The Idea of the Renaissance, co-authored with William Kerrigan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989.

PETRARCH AND OCCITAN POETRY
William D. Paden, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
"Petrarch and the Troubadours."
Some of his major studies include:
Bertran de Born, seigneur de Hautefort, 1140?-1215. The Poems of the Troubadour Bertran de Born. Berkeley: U of California P, 1986.
The Future of the Middle Ages: Medieval Literature in the 1990s. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1994.
Medieval Lyric: Genres in Historical Context. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2000.
The Medieval Pastourelle. New York: Garland, 1987.
An Introduction to Old Occitan. New York: MLA, 1998.
The Voice of the Trobairitz. Perspectives on the Women Troubadours. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1980.

PETRARCH AND SPANISH POETRY
Anne J. Cruz, University of Illinois, Chicago
Some of her major studies include:
Disciplines on the Line: Feminist Research on Spanish, Latin American, and US Latina Women. Newark, DL: Juan de la Cuesta Press, 2003.
Cervantes and His Postmodern Constituencies. New York : Garland, 1999.
Cultural Encounters: The Impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World. Berkeley: U of California P, 1991.
Culture and Control in Counter-Reformation Spain. Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P, 1992.
Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1999.
Imitación y transformación: el petrarquismo en la poesía de Boscán y Garcilaso de la Vega. Amsterdam; J. Benjamins, 1988.
Renaissance Rereadings: Intertext and Context. Urbana: U of Illinois, 1988.

PETRARCH AND MUSIC: 1350-1600
Chair: Tim Carter, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James Haar, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John Nádas, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill