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CENACOLO XVIII | Spring 2024 | University of Maryland

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CENACOLO XVIII | Spring 2024 | University of Maryland

History Friday, May 10, 2024 9:30 am - 5:00 pm Taliafero Hall, 2110, The Berlin Room

The Cenacolo, which includes medievalist and early modernist historians, art historians, and literary scholars from the Maryland-DC area focusing on Western Europe (with some connection to Italian history), will hold its spring meeting at UMD on May 10, 2024, in the History Department's Berlin Room.

Please RSVP if you intend to join us by sending an email to Aneta Georgievska-Shine at agshine@umd.edu or Stefano Villani at villani@umd.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance (Johns Hopkins University) and the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies (University of Maryland). See the schedule below.

CENACOLO XVIII, Spring 2024
University of Maryland, May 10, 2024
Department of History, 4282 Chapel Ln., College Park
Taliaferro Hall, Berlin Room, Room 2110

 
Breakfast: 9:30-10:30

 Morning session 10:30-12:30

 The Capitoli of 1524: How Jewish Modernity Began in Rome 500 Years Ago
Bernard D. Cooperman, Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park

 A Kabbalistic Amulet of Giacomo Casanova
Pawel Maciejko, Associate Professor, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Chair in Classical Jewish Religion, Thought, and Culture, History Department, Johns Hopkins University

 Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605): Problem of Recognizing Stone Age Tools as Man-made
Joaneath Spicer, The James A Murnaghan Curator of European Renaissance and Baroque Art, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Vermeer’s Music Lesson and Ficino’s Remedy for Melancholia
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Senior Lecturer, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park

 Lunch: 12:30 – 2:00

 Afternoon session 2:00-4:00

 Tintoretto’s “Storms”
April Oettinger, Professor of Art History, Goucher College, Baltimore

 
“Roland, senator roman”: Origins of the Italian Literary Romance-epic Trope
Leslie Zarker Morgan, Professor Emerita of Italian and French, Loyola University Maryland

 
Finding a Place for Poetry: Tasso and Renaissance Poetic Theory
Francesco Brenna, Assistant Professor of Italian, Towson University

 
Dante’s Inferno and Mussolini’s Fall: Ezra Pound, Eugenio Montale, and Hamish Henderson
David Norbrook, Merton Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, University of Oxford

 Reception: 4 – 5 p.m.


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Sabrina Alcorn Baron, PhD
Principal Lecturer
Media Manager
Department of History
https://history.umd.edu/directory/sabrina-baron

Add to Calendar 05/10/24 9:30 AM 05/10/24 5:00 PM America/New_York CENACOLO XVIII | Spring 2024 | University of Maryland

The Cenacolo, which includes medievalist and early modernist historians, art historians, and literary scholars from the Maryland-DC area focusing on Western Europe (with some connection to Italian history), will hold its spring meeting at UMD on May 10, 2024, in the History Department's Berlin Room.

Please RSVP if you intend to join us by sending an email to Aneta Georgievska-Shine at agshine@umd.edu or Stefano Villani at villani@umd.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance (Johns Hopkins University) and the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies (University of Maryland). See the schedule below.

CENACOLO XVIII, Spring 2024
University of Maryland, May 10, 2024
Department of History, 4282 Chapel Ln., College Park
Taliaferro Hall, Berlin Room, Room 2110

 
Breakfast: 9:30-10:30

 Morning session 10:30-12:30

 The Capitoli of 1524: How Jewish Modernity Began in Rome 500 Years Ago
Bernard D. Cooperman, Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park

 A Kabbalistic Amulet of Giacomo Casanova
Pawel Maciejko, Associate Professor, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Chair in Classical Jewish Religion, Thought, and Culture, History Department, Johns Hopkins University

 Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605): Problem of Recognizing Stone Age Tools as Man-made
Joaneath Spicer, The James A Murnaghan Curator of European Renaissance and Baroque Art, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Vermeer’s Music Lesson and Ficino’s Remedy for Melancholia
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Senior Lecturer, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park

 Lunch: 12:30 – 2:00

 Afternoon session 2:00-4:00

 Tintoretto’s “Storms”
April Oettinger, Professor of Art History, Goucher College, Baltimore

 
“Roland, senator roman”: Origins of the Italian Literary Romance-epic Trope
Leslie Zarker Morgan, Professor Emerita of Italian and French, Loyola University Maryland

 
Finding a Place for Poetry: Tasso and Renaissance Poetic Theory
Francesco Brenna, Assistant Professor of Italian, Towson University

 
Dante’s Inferno and Mussolini’s Fall: Ezra Pound, Eugenio Montale, and Hamish Henderson
David Norbrook, Merton Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, University of Oxford

 Reception: 4 – 5 p.m.


--
Sabrina Alcorn Baron, PhD
Principal Lecturer
Media Manager
Department of History
https://history.umd.edu/directory/sabrina-baron

Taliafero Hall

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Please RSVP if you intend to join us.

Organization

Contact

Aneta Georgievska-Shine or Stefano Villani
villani@umd.edu

Cost

Free