Transcript Maps, Texts, and Words in Early Italian The Italian Studies Program

Maps, Texts, and Words in Early Italian
The Italian Studies Program of University of Notre Dame (USA), in partnership with the CNR Institute
“Opera del Vocabolario Italiano” (OVI), will host a second series of seminars focusing on a wide range of
topics related to early Italian studies, including: Dante’s Commedia, the geographical representation of
linguistic data, and the production and circulation of manuscripts in Tuscany in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. The confirmed speakers are: Marcello Barbato (“L’Orientale” Napoli), Theodore J. Cachey Jr.
(University of Notre Dame), Mariafrancesca Giuliani (OVI), Cristiano Lorenzi Biondi (OVI), Paolo Squillacioti
(OVI), and Giulio Vaccaro (OVI).
The seminars will take place at the OVI Institute (Villa Reale di Castello, via Di Castello 46, 50141 Firenze www.ovi.cnr.it) from 4 p.m. All video conferences will be broadcast with the ZOOM system
(www.zoom.us) in The United States, in Rome (Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway), and in many other
places in the world.
2017 SEMINARS PROGRAM
Thursday, February 9
Cristiano Lorenzi Biondi, An Introduction to the Vocabolario Dantesco: Methodology and First Results
Thursday, February 23
Theodore J. Cachey Jr., The Commedia as “mappamundi”
Thursday, March 16
Mariafrancesca Giuliani, A Spatial Analysis of TLIO Words
Thursday, March 23
Marcello Barbato, Towards a Grammatical Atlas of Early Italian
Thursday, April 6
Giulio Vaccaro, Vernacular Culture in Florentine Convents between the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Thursday, April 27
Paolo Squillacioti, Textual Variants of the Tesoro volgare in a Sienese Manuscript (Laur. Pl. XLII 22)