Autumn 2017, Term 1

Tuesday 10 October 2017. Prof. Liam Semler (Sydney), 'The Arrival, Form and Meaning of the Grotesque in England 1500-1700'.

Tuesday 14 November 2017. Prof. Maria Teresa Guerrini (Bologna), 'University and Academies in Early Modern Bologna'.

Tuesday 28 November 2017. Dr Valerio Sanzotta (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies), 'Marsilio Ficino’s Marginal Notes on Proclus’s Commentary on the Timaeus (Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS 24)'.

Tuesday 5 December 2017. Dr Rich Rabone (Warwick), 'A Novel mediocritas? The Aristotelian Middle Way and the Pursuit of Happiness in Baltasar Gracián's Criticón'.

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Spring 2018, Term 2

Tuesday 9 January 2018. Dr Hester Schadee (Exeter), 'Speech and the City: the Role of Language in Leonardo Bruni’s Civic Humanism'.

Tuesday 20 February 2018. Dr Felicita Tramontana (Warwick), 'Missionaries and Mobility between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Italy'.

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Summer 2018, Term 3

Tuesday 1 May 2018. Dr Stephen Bates (Warwick/Newman), ‘The Virgin, gender and the English Reformation’.

Tuesday 15 May 2018. Prof. Paula Findlen (Stanford), ‘With a Letter in Hand: Writing, Communication, and Representation in Renaissance Italy’. A joint STVDIO/History Seminar

Tuesday 19 June 2018. Prof. Carlo Maria Bajetta (Vallée d'Aoste and IAS/CSR Visiting Professor), 'Each Man to His Job: Elizabeth I's Italian Letters'.