The Romantics in Italy: Dante, Italian Culture, and Romantic Literature: January 23-30, 2010 A symposium dedicated to exploring relations between Romantic-Era Writers and Italian Literature and Culture, especially (but not limited to) Dante.

Topics include: • Italy in the Romantic imagination • The British Romantics Living and Writing in Italy • Romantic Era Translations of Dante into English • Romantic Writers and Mediterranean Culture in Italy • Dante’s influence on Romantic Writers • Petrarch and the Romantics • Italian Drama and the 19th C. British Theater • Italian Sculpture, Painting, or Music and Romantic Literature • British Romantic Politics and Italian Culture • Foscolo’s influence on Romantic and/or Italian Literature • Italian Romantics and British Romantics • Specific Author relationships to Italy, including Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Coleridge, Goethe, Staël • Translations of British, French, or German Romantic Literature into Italian

Participants will generally be making presentations of approximately 15 minutes duration to allow plenty of time for discussion and interaction. They agree that the Foundation and the Organizers will have the first right of refusal for publication of their papers, if the quality of the work presented should prove to be sufficient to warrant the effort and expense of publication. All participants will be asked to attend all sessions and to participate in cultural events related to the symposium. Meetings will consist primarily (but not exclusively) of sessions in which formal academic papers will be read, accompanied by PowerPoint or other media demonstrations.

Programme: Romantics in Italy: Dante, Italian Culture, and Romantic Literature

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Participants and Accompanying persons: Afternoon Arrival.

16.00: possibility of visiting Bargello Museum.

18:00 At the Auditorium al Duomo: Welcome. Introduction of the Seminar Programme and Speakers.

19.15 Dinner for Registered participants and Accompanying persons paying the package fee at Restaurant La Madia, Via del Giglio 14.

Sunday, January 24, 2010 (Room Donatello at the Auditorium al Duomo)

Session I. Notable Presentations 9:00-10:00
Chair: Paul Douglass.
1. Edoardo Crisafulli, Independent Scholar, Japan: The Vision of Dante: H. F. Cary's Political Appropriation of Dante's Comedy.
2. Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario: Mary Shelley’s Valperga: Romance, Philology and Historiography.

Session II. 10:30-12:00
Chair: Temur Kobakhidze
1. Nick Halmi, St Catherine's, Oxford: Byron Between Ariosto and Tasso.
2. Joseph Luzzi, Bard College: Old and New Money: Ugo Foscolo’s Letters from England and the Italian Market.
3. Diego Saglia (Parma): Dante in British Romantic Women’s Writings.

12:30: Participants and Accompanying persons:
Lunch for Registered participants and Accompanying persons paying the package fee at Restaurant Buca San Giovanni, Piazza San Giovanni 8.

Session III. 14:30- 15:30
Chair: Laura Quinney, Brandeis University.
1. Lloyd Davies, Western Kentucky University: Byron Recapitulates Dante: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
2. Mary Ann McDonald Carolan, Fairfield University: Teaching Dante Through Blake.
3. Tamar Mebuke, Georgia: Heroes of Humanity: or the Other Side of Romanticism.

16.00-17.00: visit to Accademia Gallery.

19.15 Dinner for Registered participants and Accompanying persons paying the package fee at Restaurant La Tavernetta della Signora, Via de’ Neri 57.
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Monday, January 25, 2010 (Room Donatello at the Auditorium al Duomo)

Session IV. 9:00-10:00
Chair: Fred Burwick
Keynote Presentation I: Professor Angela Esterhammer: Importing Improvvisatori: The Culture of Poetic Improvisation in 1820s England.

Session V. 10:30-12:00
Chair: Richard Sha
1. Charles Strong, Oregon, USA: Shelley’s Use of Terza Rima Sonnets in Ode to the West Wind.
2. Caroline Kimberly, University of Houston-Downtown: There’s No Place Like Rome: Expatriation and the Birth of Keats’s Fame.
3. Temur Kobakhidze, Tbilisi: Italy, Florence, and the Romantic Traits in Robert Browning's Poetry.

Lunch: Participants and Accompanying persons are free to do as they wish.

After Lunch: Cultural Activity: Visit to the Stibbert Museum.

19.15 Dinner for Registered participants and Accompanying persons paying the package fee at Restaurant Il Teatro, Via Ghibellina 128-130/r.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 (Room Donatello at the Auditorium al Duomo)

Session VI. 9:00-10:15
Chair: Diane Hoeveler
1. Sheila Spector, New York, USA: “Derekh eretz” or Atticism: Shadal’s Poem for his Generation: Samuel David Luzzatto’s Judaization of Rousseau.
2. Marilyn Gaull, Boston University: The Significance of Italy and Italian Language and Literature for Wordsworth’s Language, Politics, and Humor.
3. Richard Sha, American University: Italian Science, Electricity, and Frankenstein..

Session VII. 11:00-12:15
Chair: Roswitha Burwick
1. Lucy Morrison, Salisbury University, MD: Mary Shelley’s Dance with Dante.
2. Bruce Graver, Providence College: Sitting in Dante’s Throne: Wordsworth and Italian Nationalism.
3. Paul Douglass, San Jose State University: Picturing Italy: Finden's Illustrations to the Life of Byron.

12:30: Lunch for Registered participants and Accompanying persons paying the package fee at Restaurant Buca San Giovanni, Piazza San Giovanni 8.

14.00-17.00: Visit to the Museums of Palazzo Pitti (The Gallery of Modern Art, The Costume Gallery, The Palatine Gallery, The 'Museo degli Argenti' (The Medici Treasury), The Porcelain Museum and to Boboli Garden.

18:00 At Casa Guidi: A poetry reading with Michael O’Neill and others, followed by informal discussion.

19.15 Dinner for Registered participants and Accompanying persons paying the package fee at Restaurant La Tavernetta della Signora, Via de’ Neri 57.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Gabinetto Vieusseux – Sala Ferri)

Session VIII. Notable Presentations: 9:00-10:00
Chair: Angela Esterhammer
1. Edoardo Zuccato, IULM, Milano: John Penn as a Translator of Petrarch.
2. Gillen D’Arcy Wood, U. of Ill. Urbana-Champaign: Faccia di musico: Byron, Italian Opera, and the Reception of Don Juan.

Session IX. 10:30-12:00
Chair: Nicholas Halmi
1. Nancy Gish, University of Maine, Orono: Scott's Bride of Lammermoor and the opera Lucia de Lammermoor.
2. Jeffrey Hipolito, Everett Community College, Everett, Washington: Coleridge, Vico and Philosophical Method.
3. Judith W. Page, University of Florida: Monsters in the Garden: Dorothy Wordsworth and the Italian Style.

Lunch: Participants and Accompanying persons are free to do as they wish.

15.30: visit to the “English Cemetery”

Session X. 18:00 At the British Institute:
Chair: Paul Douglass
Keynote Presentation II: Jeffrey N. Cox, University of Colorado: Revisioning Rimini: Reading Dante in the Cockney School .
No dinner arrangements: participants may dine as they please.

Thursday, January 28, 2010 (Salone Magliabechiano at the Uffizi Gallery)

Session XI. 9:00-10:30
Greetings from our Host: Mr Di Benedetto, Director of the Uffizi Gallery Library
Chair: Temur Kobakhidze
1. Elizabeth Fay, University of Massachusetts Boston: Italy’s Egypt: Athanasius Kircher, Giovanni Belzoni, and the Italian origins of Egyptology.
2. Katherine Kernberger, Linfield College, OR: Byron’s Italian Experiments: The Poetics of Love and Politics.
3. Michael O’Neill, University of Durham: "More than Half Erased": Shelley, Dante, and Realms without a Name.

Session XII. 11:00-12:00
Chair: Paul Douglass
Keynote Presentation III: Frederick Burwick, UCLA: Masaniello on the London Stage.

Lunch: Participants and Accompanying persons are free to do as they wish.

Aftrnoon: On request – for an extra fee – minimum 25 participants) Excursion to Siena and San Gimignano: Departure at 2:00 PM by bus with English-speaking guide. Dinner in Siena in a typical restaurant. Return to Florence after dinner.

No dinner arrangements for those who do not go to Siena: participants may dine as they please.

Friday, January 29, 2010 (Room Donatello at the Auditorium al Duomo)

Session XIII. 9:00-10:00
Chair: Frederick Burwick
Keynote Presentation IV: Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania: Epipsychidion and the Renewable Life.

Session XIV. 10:30-12:30
Chair: Temur Kobakhidze
1. Diane Piccitto, University of Zurich / University of Western Ontario: The Romantics in Italy: Dante, Italian Culture, and Romantic Literature.
2. Sophie Thomas, University of Sussex: Shelley at the Uffizi: Sculpture, Viewing, and other Vital Matter(s).
3. Diane Hoeveler, Marquette U.: "De Stael's Corrine and the Performance of Romanticism."

Conclusions and suggestion of new programmes

Lunch: Participants are free to do as they wish for the rest of the day until dinner.

14.00: Possibility of visiting the Uffizi Gallery.
19.15 Dinner for Registered participants and Accompanying persons paying the package fee, at Restaurant Tavernetta della Signoria, Via de’ Neri 57.

Saturday, January 30, 2010
9.00: possibility of visiting the Museum of Medici Chapels
Departure

Participation at the conference as a speaker/as an auditor

CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION:
1.Registration Fee for the conference: € 390,00 (taxes included)

The fee includes:
Registration for the conference (badge of recognition, folder, program, participation certificate)
Meeting room for all the duration of the conference
Audiovisual Equipment

2.Package of registration and services fee with the accommodation at 3*central superior hotel:
930 Euro (price er person)

Includes:
Registration for the conference (badge of recognition, folder, program, participation certificate)
Meeting room for all the duration of the conference
Audiovisual Equipments
5 dinners, 2 light lunches
7 nights in double occupancy room in a 3* central superior hotel on bed and breakfast basis
Museum visits as Uffizi, Galleria dell'Accademia, Palazzo Pitti etc..
Accommodation in a single room – suplementary fee 370 Euro

3. Package of registration and services fee with the accommodation at 3*central hotel:
750 Euro (price per person)

Includes:
Registration for the conference (badge of recognition, folder, program, participation certificate)
Meeting room for all the duration of the conference
Audiovisual Equipments
5 dinners, 2 light lunches
7 nights in double occupancy room in a 3* central hotel on bed and breakfast basis
Museum visits as Uffizi, Galleria dell'Accademia, Palazzo Pitti ecc.
Accommodation in a single room – suplementary fee 300 Euro

Optional visit to S. Gimignano and Siena (half day) € 95 – (min. 20 participants)

The fee includes:
Chartered bus transportation to S. Gimignano and Siena
Cultural guided visit
Box lunch
Dinner


PACKAGES FOR THE ACCOMPANYING PERSONS:
1.Package of services and accommodation at 3*central superior hotel:
780 Euro (price per person)

Includes:
5 dinners, 2 light lunches
7 nights in double occupancy room in a 3* central superior hotel on bed and breakfast basis
Museum visits as Uffizi, Galleria dell'Accademia, Palazzo Pitti etc..

2.Package of services and accommodation at 3*central hotel:
600 Euro (price per person)

Includes:
5 dinners, 2 light lunches
7 nights in double occupancy room in a 3* central hotel on bed and breakfast basis
Museum visits as Uffizi, Galleria dell'Accademia, Palazzo Pitti ecc.

Optional visit to S. Gimignano and Siena (half day) € 95 – (min. 20 participants)

The fee includes:
Chartered bus transportation to S. Gimignano and Siena
Cultural guided visit
Box lunch
Dinner



REGISTRATIONS AND PAYMENTS:

Deadline: before 30th October 2009

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Cancellation policies:
The cancellations of the registration fees and hotel packages carried out before November 30th will be reimbursed with a 100 Euro deduction for secretarial costs. After this date no reimbursements will be possible, unless the cancellation is for a visa problem. In this case 50% of the paid amount will be reimbursed. Any reimbursement will be given at the end of the congress and will be realized by the bank transfer for which IBAN and SWIFT code are necessary. In certain cases reimbursements by any other means will be given; however, all the expenses of the transfer will be paid by the applicant.

Letter of invitation:
If you require an official letter of invitation in order to attend the conference, please write to the organizing secretariat at info@promoflorenceevents.com.
The letter will assist delegates who need to obtain their government's or department's permission to attend the conference or obtain required visa from Italian consulate abroad.
Delegates from countries within the European Union / Schengen Area will only need a valid passport or ID to travel to Italy. All other delegates should contact the nearest Italian embassy or consulate for visa details

Certificate of attendance:
The participation certificate can be had upon request.

Insurance:
The organizers bear no responsibility for untoward events in connection with, before, during and after the conference. Participants are strongly advised to take out their own personal and travel insurance coverage.

Organizing Secretariat:
Promo Florence Events
Promotion and Organization of Events Art-Culture-Science
Palazzo Coppini, Via Del Giglio 10
50123 Firenze, Italy
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