CONFERENCE: The Italian Brand: Re-evaluating Italian Influence in EarlyModern English Culture

Shakespeare and His Contemporaries 2024 The IASEMS Graduate Conference.

Friday, April 19, 2024. From 9.00 a.m to 5.00 p.m.

9.30 – OPENING REMARKS Serena Cenni Associazione Culturale Il Palmerino

Iolanda Plescia President of IASEMS.

10.00 / KEYNOTE LECTURE Chair: Loretta Innocenti, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice ANDREW HADFIELD University of Sussex William Thomas: Translator, Traitor, and Traveller to Italy.

10.45 / Discussion.

11.00 / Coffee Break.

11.30 / MORNING SESSION Sofia Degli Espositi (University of Pavia) The First English Readers of Machiavelli’s The Prince. The Case of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Giulia Drago (Sapienza University of Rome) Cantare, Canting? The Italian Brand between Learning and Deception in Early Modern England Leonardo Bagnulo (Sapienza University of Rome) “[T]urning into English what was turned out of English”: Henry Carey’s Translation of Giovanni Francesco Biondi’s Istoria delle Guerre Civili d’Inghilterra.

12.30 / DISCUSSION

13.00 / LUNCH BREAK

14.30 /KEYNOTE LECTURE Chair: Roberta Ferrari, University of Pisa MICHAEL WYATT Dartmouth College The ‘Criminal’ Space of the immaginario: The Tempest, Eduardo De Fillipo’s L’arte della commedia, and the Isola di Asinara in Gianfranco Cabbidu’s La stoffa dei sogni (2016).

15.15 / Discussion.

15.30/ AFTERNOON SESSION Caterina Pan (Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg) Anglo-Italian Parallels in Early Modern Itinerant Theatre: The English Comedians and the Commedia dell’Arte Michaela Válková (Charles University, Prague) “I shall see / Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness”: Italian Actresses Defying Customs in Early Modern London.

16.30 / Discussion.

17.00 / FINAL REMARKS Cup of Te.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Luca Baratta IASEMS Executive Board Manuela D’Amore Maria Luisa De Rinaldis with the assistance of Gilberta Golinelli Federica Parretti Iolanda Plescia Stefano Vincieri WEBSITES www.iasems.org.

VENUE DATE Villa Il Palmerino 19 April 2024 Sala della Colonica via del Palmerino, 6 Firenze

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