Archive of Work in Progress Speakers from 2023

2025-26 Sessions, which were mostly in hybrid format

Convened by Karin Sprang and Alex Tadel

21 October (week 3) (joint session): Eugenia Sisto (Warburg) - 'Renaissance Self-Translation: Bilingual Writing in the Italian Language Debate'; and Rachele Buzzetti (Sacro Cuore) - 'Annotating Petrarch in the Sixteenth Century: Glosses as a Parallel Exegesis to the Humanist-Renaissance Commentary'.

2 December (week 9): Clive Letchford (Warwick) - 'Inside the Schoolroom: Learning Latin, Modelling Methods'.

20 January (week 2): Constance Briand (Tours) - 'Stereotomy in Renaissance Architecture'.

10 February (week 5): Kristi Flake (Warwick) - 'Divine Right, Non-Resistance, and the Book of Homilies in England's 'Second Reformation''.

10 March (week 9): Sidonie Pinero (Tours/La Sapienza) - 'French, Italian, and Spanish Women's Sociability Networks in Rome (1650-1714): Writing Practices and Diplomatic Uses'.

19 May (week 4) (joint session): Tom Langham (Warwick) - 'Effects and Affects: A Cultural History of the Drum in England 1500-1700'; and Léa Monteil (Tours) - 'Flames and the Gigantic: Cyclops and Giants Represented Above Fireplaces in 16th-Century Italy'.16 June (week 8): Jeanne Dufresne (Warwick) - ''She shifted from one Place to another': Women’s Mobility and Mechanisms of Belonging in Seventeenth-Century England and France'.

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'.