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Research Colloquium: Forms

This colloquium, on the Forms of Renaissance Conflict and Rivalries, was held at the University of Warwick on 9-10 May 2013.

Programme:

Thursday, 9 May. Arden House, University of Warwick

2:15 Welcome (David Lines)

Session I: Chair, Marc Laureys (Bonn)

2:30 Jeroen De Keyser (Leuven): Francesco Filelfo’s Feud with Poggio Bracciolini

3:00 Concetta Bianca (Florence), 'Contentiosae disputationes' agli esordi della stampa

3:30–4:00 Coffee break

4:00 Alessio Cotugno (Ca' Foscari, Venice): Le 'Annotationi' di Piccolomini e la 'Poetica' di Castelvetro a confronto: tecniche argomentative e vocabolario critico

4:30-5:30 Discussion

5:45-7:00 Network co-ordinators' discussion: looking forward

7:30 Conference dinner


Friday, 10 May. Arden House, University of Warwick

Session II: Chair, Tiziano Zanato (Ca' Foscari)

9:00 Guido Giglioni (The Warburg Institute, London): Scaliger versus Cardano versus Scaliger: A Reassessment

9:30 Arnold Becker (Bonn): Positioning Strategies in Ulrich von Hutten's Polemical Dialogues

10:00 Discussion

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Session III: Chair, Dirk Sacré (Leuven)

11:00 Uwe Baumann (Bonn): The Humanistic and Religious Controversies and Rivalries of Sir Thomas More: A Typology of Literary Forms and Genres

11:30 Irene Reginato / Eugenio Burgio (Ca' Foscari, Venice): Foundation Myths and Trade Conflicts: Ramusio, the Fourth Crusade and the Crisis of the Merchants of Venice in the Sixteenth Century

12:00-12:30 Discussion

12:30-2:00 Lunch

Session IV: Chair, Concetta Bianca (Florence)

2:00 Chiara Franceschini (The Warburg Institute): Northern Italian painters in competition: Girolamo Romanino's 'maniera' and his chapel frescoes in Pisogne (Brescia, 1534 circa)

2:30 Irene Verziagi (Ca' Foscari, Venice): La Riforma e i Gesuiti come Stoici nei 'Ragguagli di Parnaso' di Traiano Boccalini

3:00 Eugenio Refini (Warwick): The Courtier and the Philosopher's Stone: Rhetorical and Visual Conflicts in Fabio Glissenti's 'Discorsi morali' (1596)

3:30-4:10 Discussion

4:10-4:30 Coffee break

Session V: 4:30–5:30

Roundtable discussion led by Jill Kraye (The Warburg Institute) and David Lines (Warwick)

7:30 Conference dinner

Downloadable programme flyer here