Archive of Work in Progress Speakers from 2023-24
2024-25 Sessions. Mostly in person.
Tuesday 15th October, 1-2pm (Week 3): Marta Spina (Warwick) - 'Republicanism in Renaissance Florence: Sallust's Political Thought in the Work of Coluccio Salutati (1332-1406)'.
Tuesday 26th November, 1-2pm (Week 9): Nena Bobovnik (KU Leuven) - 'AristotelianMagna Moraliain the Latin West'.
Tuesday 10th December, 1-2pm (Week 11): Jacopo Pesaresi (Bologna) - 'Civil War and National Identity in XV Century Italy: Basinio da Parma'sBellum civile'.
Tuesday 14th January, 1-2pm (Week 2): Gabriele La Placa (Ca' Foscari) - 'Literary Perspectives on Modesty in 15th-Century Italy: Salutati, Barbaro and Alberti'.
Tuesday 11th February, 1-2pm (Week 4): Giacomo Rughetti (Roma Tre) - 'Giordano Bruno's Interpretation of Aristotle'sPhysics: The Case of Time in theFiguratio Aristotelici Physici auditus'.
Tuesday 18th February, 1-2pm (Week 5): Alessia Grillone (Torino) - 'Teaching and Translating Aristotle at Florence in the XV Century: The Case of John Argyropoulos'.
Tuesday 4th March, 1-2pm (Week 9): Claudio Azzarito (Warwick) - 'Medical Semiotics in Early 17th-Century Padua: Emilio Campilongo and Prospero Alpini'.
Tuesday 29th April, 1-2pm (Week 2): Yinhuizi Shi (Hannah) (South West University) - 'Double-Entry Bookkeeping and Honour inOthello'.
Tuesday 13th May, 1-2pm (Week 4): Daria Akhapkina (Warwick) - '"And it was so": The Humour of Parodic Gospels'.
Tuesday 17th June, 1-2pm (Week 9): Alex Tadel (Warwick) - 'Scholarly Shepherdess: Angela Nogarola’s Eclogue on Milanese Politics (1403).
2023-24. Sessions were mostly hybrid, and mostly on Thursdays.
26th October: Clive Letchford, 'Do What I Say: Padagogy and Self-Presentation'.
23rd November: Christian Martens, 'Was François Hotman a Historian? Answers from his Polemical Works and his Iconography'.
7th December: Karin Sprang, 'Rare Birds & Fast Friends: Interpreting Illustrations in Early Modern Alba Amicorum’.
25th January: Eva van Kemenade, 'Sensory Crowd Politics: The Departure Rituals of Papal Legates in Early Modern Bologna'.
22nd February: Mathilde Alain, 'Writing, translating, rearranging: the traveller’s self and Italian scholars in Álvares’ account of Ethiopia (c.1540)'.
7th March: Maialen Maugars, 'Exhibiting Italian Renaissance decorative art in late nineteenth-century Birmingham: significance, display, reception'.
14th March: Alex Tadel, 'Between Friends: Mixed-Gender Humanist Exchange in the Letters of Isotta Nogarola and Damiano dal Borgo'.
25th April: Riccardo Brighenti, 'Tomaso Zefiriele Bovio's Trialogi on Astrology: A Text, Its Contents, and Its Context'.
9th May: Valeria Cesaraccio, '(Self-)Portrayals of Teachers and Students in Sixteenth-century School Exercises and Manuals'.
6th June: Wanxin Du, 'The Legislation on Arms Control in Tuscany, 1572-1685: Some Observations on Legislazione toscana'.