Reading Old Italian Aloud (A Workshop)

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Italians and Italianists at Kalamazoo

Organizer Name

Kristina M. Olson

Organizer Affiliation

George Mason Univ.

Presider Name

Kristina M. Olson

Paper Title 1

How the House Is Made: Reading Restoro d'Arezzo's Composizione del mondo

Presenter 1 Name

Akash Kumar

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Columbia Univ.

Paper Title 2

Love My Way: Cecco d'Ascoli Corrects Dante et al. in Acerba III.i

Presenter 2 Name

Seth B. Fabian

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Columbia Univ.

Paper Title 3

Fictive Female Voices: Cited Speech and Gender in Guittone d'Arezzo and Cecco Angiolieri

Presenter 3 Name

Savannah Cooper-Ramsey

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Columbia Univ.

Start Date

10-5-2014 1:30 PM

Session Location

Valley II Eicher 202

Description

Building on the great success of the inaugural Reading Old Italian Aloud workshop this year, we propose a workshop that highlights the merits both pedagogical and scholarly of reading old Italian texts (ca. 1100-1500) aloud. We invite participants to read selections of verse or prose texts that call attention to the wide range of early vernacular production, from poetry in dialect to popular sermons to legal texts, while providing tips to others on how to work with such texts. We hope that an emphasis on “minor” voices might serve to add historical context as well as provide access to the tool set required to work with these traditionally less regarded texts.

Kristina Olson