Program

Petrarch's Virgil, title page (c. 1336) Illuminated manuscript, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan Painted by Simone Martini (b. 1280/85, Siena, d. 1344, Avignon)

Friday, March 26, 2004
John Hope Franklin Center, Rm. 240

1:00-1:15
Welcome: Valeria Finucci, Romance Studies, Duke University

1:15-2:30
Moderator: Dino Cervigni, Romance Languages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kevin Brownlee, Department of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania
"Power Plays: Petrarch's Genealogical Strategies"

2:30-2:45
coffee break

2:45-4:00
Moderator: Albert Rabil, Humanities, Emeritus, SUNY/Old Westbury
Margaret King, Department of History, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, NY
"Petrarch, the Self-Conscious Self, and the First Women Humanists"

4:00-4:15
coffee break

4:15-5:30
Moderator: Alexander Silbiger, Music, Emeritus, Duke University
Massimo Ossi, Department of Musicology, School of Music, Indiana University
"The Vexed Question of Monteverdi as Reader of Petrarch"

5:45-7:15
Mary Duke Biddle Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, West Campus

Exhibit: Rare Books on Petrarch and Petrarchism at Duke University
Introduction: David Ferriero, Vice Provost for Library Affairs, and Martin Marafioti, Romance Studies, Duke University

AND

Reception: Toasts and Tributes to Ronald Witt on the Occasion of his Retirement
Welcome: John Thompson, History, Duke University

7:30-10:30
Dinner in the home of Valeria Finucci

Saturday, March 27, 2004
John Hope Franklin Center, Rm. 240

8:30
Morning coffee and croissants, Franklin Rm. 230

9:15-10:30
Moderator: Thomas Robisheaux, History, Duke University
Chris Celenza, Department of History, Michigan State University
"Petrarch, Latin, and the Vernacular in Retrospect."

10:30-10:45
coffee break

10:45-12:00
Moderator: David Aers, English Department, Duke University
James Simpson, English Department, Harvard University
"Subjects of Triumph: Dido and Petrarch in Petrarch's Trionfi"

12:00-1:15
Lunch The Gothic Bookshop will be exhibiting books in Rm. 230

1:15-2:30
Moderator: Diskin Clay, Classical Studies, Duke University
Giuseppe Gerbino, Department of Music, Columbia University
"Florentine Petrarchismo and the Origins of the Italian Madrigal"

2:30-2:45
coffee break

2:45-4:00
Moderator: Gianna Pomata, History, University of Bologna
Andrea Carlino, Institut d'Histoire de la Medecine, Universite de Geneve
"Petrarch's Invectivae contra medicum and the Early Modern Medical Skeptics"

4:00-4:15
coffee break

4:15-5:30
Moderator: Valeria Finucci, Romance Studies, Duke University
Virginia Cox, Italian Department, New York University
"Through the Looking Glass: Sixteenth-Century Women Petrarchists and the Legacy of Laura"

6:00-7:45
Reception/Dinner, Duke Museum of Art, East Campus

8:00
Duke Collegium Musicum, "Mia benigna fortuna: Petrarch and the Italian Madrigal"
Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg., East Campus
Director: Kerry McCarthy

Sunday, March 28, 2004
John Hope Franklin Center, 240

9:00
morning coffee and croissants

9:30-10:45
Moderator: Mary Pardo, Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephen Campbell, Department of Art History, Johns Hopkins University
"Petrarchan Poetry and the Rise of the Mythological Painting: Mantua ca. 1500"

10:45-11:00
coffee break

11:00-12:15
Moderator: Paul Grendler, History, Emeritus, University of Toronto
Amedeo Quondam, Dipartimento di Italianistica e Spettacolo , Universita di Roma, La Sapienza
"Petrarca: Un modello di cultura e di poesia per l'Europa moderna" (English translation of talk will be available)

12:30-2:00
ROUND TABLE IN HONOR OF RONALD WITT (lunch served)
Moderator; Caroline Bruzelius, Art History, Duke University
Christopher Celenza, Department of History, Michigan State University
"Ronald Witt's Italian Difference"

Roundtable Participants:
James Banker, North Carolina State University
Paul Grendler, History, Emeritus, University of Toronto
Tim Kircher, History, Guilford College

All events, including the concert on Saturday night, are free and open to the public