Call for papers - Architecture and the Literary Imagination

PROGRAM

Day 1 (Thursday 6 November)

Venue: The Auriana Auditorium at 91直播 of Rome. Via Pietro Roselli, 16听- 00153, Roma.

19.00: Introductions

19:15 Keynote speaker -听Luis Javier Cuesta Hern谩ndez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
鈥淓phesians will no longer be proud of the Great Temple that Herostratus burned.鈥 Imagined Architecture in Mexico in the XVIIth century

Followed by a welcome reception.

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Day 2 (Friday 7 November)

Venue: The Auriana Auditorium at 91直播 of Rome. Via Pietro Roselli, 16听- 00153, Roma.

MEDIEVAL

09.00: Elizabeth Pastan (Emory University)
"Let stond the wyndow glasid:" Writings about Windows

09.30: Sara Ronzoni (Universit脿 di Padova)
鈥淟a closture et la muraille,鈥澨齦a costruzione della citt脿 utopica tra 鈥淟a Cit茅 des dames鈥 e 鈥淟a citt脿 del sole鈥

10.00: Hannele Hellerstedt (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Divine Inspiration: Imagining Construction in 鈥淟a Cit茅 des dames鈥

10.30-11.00 Coffee Break

INTERIORS

11.30: Klaus Tragbar (Zentralinstitut f眉r Kunstgeschichte M眉nchen)
Gli ambienti di Franco Sacchetti

12.00: Caterina Cardamone (Vrije Universiteit, Brussels)
Diplomatic Reports as Sources for the Florentine Imagery of Northern Architectural Culture听

12.30: Christian Frost (London Metropolitan University)
Dante and Boccaccio and the Emergence of the Civic Palazzo in Late Medieval Florence

13.00-14.30听Lunch

VITRUVIUS, PLINY, AND OTHERS

14.30: Mikel Marini (Universit脿 di Bologna)
"Erger cantando machina sublime" Un鈥檃nalisi vitruviana dell鈥檃rchitettura ecfrastica in poesia

15.00: Fabio Colonnese (La Sapienza, Roma)
Between Text and Imagination. Reconstructions of the Tomb of Lars Porsenna

15.30-16.00听coffee break

GARDENS

16.00: Luke Morgan (Monash University, Melbourne)
鈥楤odies Without Souls:鈥櫶鼳vatars of Circe in the Early Modern Garden

16.30: Nicholas Temple (London Metropolitan University)
Virgil鈥檚 Eclogues and Early 18th Century Pastoralism on the Janiculum in Rome

17.00-18.00听Break

18.00 - Keynote Speaker.听N铆all McLaughlin (N铆all McLaughlin Architects, London)听
My Portfolio in Poems

Venue: Universit脿听Roma Tre, Aula听Magna听Adalberto听Libera, Largo听G.听B.听Marzi听10

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Day 3 (Saturday 8 November)

Venue: The Auriana Auditorium at 91直播 of Rome. Via Pietro Roselli, 16听- 00153, Roma.

RUINS AND HUMANISTS

09.30: Theodoris Koutsogiannis (Art Gallery, Parliament, Athens)
Atene immaginaria cartacea e la tradizione letteraria nella prima et脿 moderna

10.00: Elisa Bacchi (Universit脿 di Pisa)
Parola come monumentum, parola al monumentum: leggere e scrivere le rovine dell鈥橝ntico nell鈥橴manesimo italiano

10.30: Susanna de Beer (Royal Dutch Institute, Rome)
The Literary Imagination of Ruins and the Rebuilding of Rome(s)

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

COUNTER REFORM

11.30: Nathaniel Hess (Warburg Institute, University of London)
The Church between Two Temples: Poetry and Images in the Works of Marco Girolamo Vida

12.00: Stefano Canciosi (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
Angelo Rocca鈥檚 Approach to Classical Sources in his 鈥淏ibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana鈥

12.30-14.00听Lunch

SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

14.00: Giovanni Santucci (Universit脿 di Pisa)
Real and Imagined Architecture in Daniel Defoe鈥檚 鈥淭our thro鈥 the Whole Island of Great Britain:鈥澨齆ational Ornament and the Design of Political Ideals.

14.30: Daniela Roberts (Julius-Maximilians-Universit盲t W眉rzburg)
The Perception of Medieval Architecture in the Journals and Letters of English Travelers, 1720-1750

15.30: Maicol Cutr矛 (Universit脿 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)
"quanti poetici concetti potrebbero scaturire da quelle metaforiche pietre?"听Spazi architettonici e invenzioni poetiche in Emanuele Tesauro

16.00-16.30听Coffee Break

EPHEMERA

16.30: Micaela Antonucci (Universit脿 di Bologna)
鈥淟a storia 猫 il pi霉 durevole monumento.鈥Le architetture effimere nelle cronache delle cerimonie pubbliche a Roma nel primo Cinquecento

17.00: Laura Garc铆a S谩nchez (Universitat de Barcelona)
鈥淎pparato funebre dell鈥檃nniversario 脿 Gregorio XV celebrato in Bologna 脿 XXIV di luglio M. DC. XXIV dall鈥 illustrissimo & reverendiss. sig. Cardinal Ludovisi:鈥una fonte letteraria al servizio di una architettura effimera

17.30-18.30听Break

18.30: Keynote Speaker. Shirine Hamadeh (Ko莽 University, Istanbul)
Poetry, Epigraphy, and the Sensory World of Ottoman Architecture

20.00 Conference Dinner
Ristorante Scarpone, Via di S. Pancrazio, 15, 00152 Rome.

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