British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Petrarch (1304-1374)
Translations, Interpretations And Appropriations through the Ages

10.00	Registration and coffee
10.30	Welcome and Introduction Nicholas Mann, Vice-President of the British Academy
10.35	First Session Petrarch's Classicism
	Ideas of Poetic Immortality John Usher (Edinburgh)
	Petrarch before Wyatt: his place in the early reception of humanism in England David Rundle (Oxford)
	Petrarch solitarius Jennifer Petrie (Dublin)
	Petrarch's Epic, Africa Francesca Galligan (Oxford)
12.45	Lunch
1.45	Second Session English Connections (1)
	The circulation of Petrarch's poetry in England in the first half of the 16th century Michael Wyatt (Florence)
	Thomas Watson's Hekatompathia (1582) and the English reception of European Petrarchism Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, London)
	Petrarchan motifs in Sidney's Astrophel and Stella John Roe (York)
	Petrarch, Sydney and Giordano Bruno Hilary Gatti (Rome)
3.30	Tea
4.00	Third Session Parodies and Counter-currents
	Anti-Petrarchism in Giordano Bruno Lia Buono-Hodgart (Royal Holloway)
	Impersonating Laura: Phantom voices in Early Modern Italy Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway)
	Renaissance misogyny and the Rejection of Petrarch Diego Zancani, (Oxford)
5.15	Guest Speaker Petrarch and the barbari britanni Piero Boitani (Rome and Cambridge)
6.15	Reception

10.30	Coffee
11.00	Fourth Session Borrowings, Appropriations and Translations
	Petrarch Reading Dante: The Ascent of Mont Ventoux Enrico Santangelo (Royal Holloway, London)
	From the Stilnovo to the Canzoniere: Petrarch and Cino da Pistoia John Took (University College London)
	Translating the Cazoniere Peter Hainsworth (Oxford)
	Modern Italian Poets and Petrarch Emanuela Tandello
12.45	Illustrated Lecture Illustrating the Canzoniere J B Trapp (Warburg Institute, London)
1.30	Lunch
2.15	Fifth Session English and Scottish Connections (2)
	Shakespeare and Petrarch Anthony Mortimer (Fribourg)
	Sidney, Spenser and Political Petrarchism Syrithe Pugh (Leeds)
	A Scottish Woman Translating the Trion fi Sarah Dunnigan (Edinburgh)
	Petrarch, the Sonnet, and the Scottish Renaissance Ronnie Jack (Edinburgh)
	Nineteenth-century English Lives of Petrarch Martin McLaughlin (Oxford)
4.15	Tea
5.00	Petrarch and early Italian opera libretti (with musical illustrations) Bojan Bujic (Oxford) Concluding remarks