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Event Date: 17 – 18 September 2011
British Library Conference Centre
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB

The Italian Academies 1525–1700 Project presents:

THE FIRST INTELLECTUAL NETWORKS OF EARLY MODERN EUROPE

This major international conference is being hosted as part of the AHRC funded research project The Italian Academies 1525-1700: the first intellectual networks of early modern Europe.

Academies represent a vital and characteristic dimension of early modern culture.
There were ca. 600 Academies in Italy in the period 1525-1700. Frequently international in membership, and in correspondence with scholars across Europe, they were fundamental to the development of the intellectual networks later defined as the ‘République des Lettres’, and to the dissemination of ideas in early modern Europe. Their membership included pioneering scientists, writers, artists, political thinkers, and representatives of both sexes and all social classes. The interests of the Academies ranged from the humanities, to the figurative and performance arts, natural sciences and medicine; many were interdisciplinary in their outlook and activities.

However, the social and cultural phenomenon of the Italian Academies has hitherto attracted relatively little research due in part to the wide range of their interests and difficulties in accessing relevant information.

The  conference aims to explore research questions raised by the activities of Academies in this period.

Plenary lectures will be given by: Professor Giovanni Muto (Universtita’ Federico II Napoli); Professor emerita Alison Brown (University of London); Professor Virginia Cox (New York University); Professor Paolo Procaccioli (Università della Tuscia, Viterbo)

NB: Presentations are in English and Italian, indicated by   English, and Italian

Programme:

Monday, 17 September 2012

Welcome By Baroness Blackstone (Chairman, British Library)

Introductory Remarks by Professor Caterina Miraglia (Assesore alla Cultura, Regione Campania)

Plenary lecture
CHAIR: Charles Hope

Alison Brown – Defining the place of academies in Florentine politics and culture 
AUDIO HERE
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Panel 1A
Pro or/and anti-Medici? Cultural dissidence, dynastical adhesion, and political ambivalence within 16th century

Florentine academies

CHAIR:  Alison Brown

Tommaso Mozzati (Perugia) paper read by Simone Testa – Le Compagnie del Paiuolo e della Cazzuola: strutture associative e integrazione nel governo dei nuovi Medici 
AUDIO HERE

James Ward (Berkeley, CA) – The Compagnia della Cazzuola as locus of opposition to Medici rule 
AUDIO HERE

Déborah Blocker (Berkeley, CA) – The Alterati in Medici Florence (1529-ca1620): an accademia privata between cultural dissidence and political service 
AUDIO HERE

Panel 1A Audience Questions

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PANEL 1B
Academies in Venice and the Veneto (1)
Venetian academies: politics and publishing.

CHAIR: Filippo de Vivo

Paule Desmouliere (Paris) – Funerary commemoration and early modern academies in the Veneto
AUDIO HERE

Marco Faini (Urbino) – A ghost academy between Venice and Brescia: philosophical scepticism and religious heterodoxy in the Accademia dei Dubbiosi
AUDIO HERE

Rosaria Bottari (Messina) – Tra eterodossia religiosa e modelli didattici erasmiani: L’Accademia Parteniana di Splilimbergo (Udine) e l’Accademia Ocricolana di Vicenza
AUDIO HERE

Panel 1B Audience Questions

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PANEL 2A
The Academies in Florence.

CHAIR: Denis Reidy

Domenico De Martino – Fondazione e motivi iconografici dell’Accademia della Crusca di Firenze
AUDIO HERE

Maria Pia Paoli – From a civic tradition to a European intellectual network: Florentine academies (16th-18th centuries)
AUDIO HERE

Panel 2A Audience Questions

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PANEL 2B
Academies in Venice and the Veneto (2)
Institutional identities in the academies of the Veneto

CHAIR: Richard Mackenney

Maurizio Sangalli (Siena) – Between church, university and academies: Paolo Beni in Padua, 1599-1623
AUDIO HERE

Alex Cittadella– Science and literature in seventeenth-century Venice: the Antonini brothers and the Accademia degli
Sventati in Udine
AUDIO HERE

Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway, London) – Battles for cultural hegemony between the Venetian Accademia degli Incogniti and Papal Rome under the Barberini
 AUDIO HERE

Panel 2B Audience Questions

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Plenary lecture
CHAIR: Silvia De Renzi

Virginia Cox – Members, muses, mascots: women and Italian academies
AUDIO HERE

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PANEL 3A
Dissent, controversy and the Academies

CHAIR: Letizia Panizza

Emanuela Bufacchi – Ecclesiastical censorship and the Academy of Incogniti
AUDIO HERE

Germano Pallini – Accademie senesi
AUDIO HERE

Carla Chiummo – Bronzino e l’Accademia fiorentina
AUDIO HERE

Panel 3A Audience Questions

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PANEL 3B
Academies in Venice and the Veneto (3)
Women writing, and love theory in the academies of the Veneto

CHAIR: Abigail Brundin

Alison Smith (Wagner College) – Women and the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona
AUDIO HERE

Paola Cosentino – Dee, imperatrici, cortigiane: la natura della donna nei romanzi degli Incogniti (Venezia)
AUDIO HERE

Lisa Sampson (University of Reading) – Gentlemen of Verona and theatrical activities in the Accademia Filarmonica
AUDIO HERE

Panel 3B Audience Questions

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Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Plenary lecture
CHAIR: John Robertson

Giovanni Muto – “Far beneficio al mondo in generale”. Congiuntura politica e strutture civili a Napoli tra XVI e XVII secolo

AUDIO HERE

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PANEL 4A
The Academies in Naples

CHAIR: Loredana Conti (Sovrintendente ai Beni Librari e Bibliotecari, Regione Campania)

Lorenza Gianfrancesco (Royal Holloway, London) – From Manuscript to Print: the Oziosi and Sileni Neapolitan Academies Tribute to Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain
AUDIO HERE

Tom Denman (University of Reading) – Literary academies and the image in baroque Naples
AUDIO HERE

Delphine Montoliu – Oltre lo Stretto: scambi accademici tra intellettuali siciliani e napoletani nel Seicento
AUDIO HERE

Panel 4A Audience Questions

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PANEL 4B
Bologna and the North

CHAIR: Simone Testa

Rossella Bonfatti (Bologna) – Oralità e società nell’Accademia degli Accesi: “Degli errori d’inclinazione poetica” di Pier Jacopo Martello
AUDIO HERE

Clizia Gurreri – Nec Longum tempus. L’Accademia dei Gelati tra XVI e XVII secolo
AUDIO HERE

Maiko Favaro – Tra musica, scienza e riflessione sull’amore: l’Accademia Palladia di Capodistria
AUDIO HERE

Panel 4B Audience Questions

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PANEL 5A
The Academies in Sicily

CHAIR: Jane Everson (Royal Holloway, London).

Irene Bagni – Il petrarchismo come convenzione letteraria. L’esperienza poetica dell’accademia degli Accesi di Palermo
AUDIO HERE

Salvatore Bottari – The Accademia della Fucina: culture and politics in 17th-century Messina
AUDIO HERE

Panel 5A Audience Questions

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PANEL 5B
The Academies in Rome

CHAIR: Clare Robertson

Ambra Moroncini (University of Sussex) – The Accademia della Virtù and Religious Dissent
AUDIO HERE

Peter M. Lukehart read by Lucy Davis – The Accademia di San Luca between educational and religious reform
AUDIO HERE

Naomi J. Barker – Cicadas, charivaris and sistra: music in the Accademia dei Lincei
AUDIO HERE

Panel 5B Audience Questions

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Plenary lecture
CHAIR: Dilwyn Knox

Paolo Proccaccioli – Accademia come palestra e come tribuna. Girolamo Ruscelli sdegnato, ardente, dubbioso, fratteggiano

AUDIO HERE

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PANEL 6A
Literary genres and Academies

CHAIR: Stefano Jossa (Royal Holloway, London)

Lorenzo Sacchini – The Accademia degli Insensati di Perugia (1561-1608 )
AUDIO HERE

Alberto Roncaccia (Université de Lausanne) – Poeti petrarchisti nel contesto dell’Accademia di Modena
AUDIO HERE

Panel 6A Audience Questions

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PANEL 6B
Sociability and learned institutions

CHAIR: Lorenza Gianfrancesco (Royal Holloway, London)

Arjan van Dixhoorn – Performative literary culture in late medieval and early modern Europe (1300-1700)
AUDIO HERE

Natasa Paripovic – The Academic movement in early modern Venetian Dalmatia: the city of Zadar (Croatia)
AUDIO HERE

Simone Testa (Royal Holloway, London) – Italian Academies – Facebooks. A Work in Progress
AUDIO HERE

Panel 6B Audience Questions

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Closing remarks by Professor Jane Everson (Royal Holloway, London)