18 - 19, 2017 Ariosto -,% &+2* C T I · Africa and India in Ariosto and Camões 16.00 iscussion...
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Front Cover image: Dosso Dossi Melissa, c. 1518-1520, detail Galleria Borghese Rome Back cover image: Sīrat alf layla wa-layla Ms. M.a. VI 32, 15th-16th century, detail, Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen is conference is open to the public with no charge e conference is funded with support from the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund and the scholarly programs and publications funds in the names of Myron and Sheila Gilmore, Jean-François Malle, Andrew W. Mellon, Robert Lehman, Craig and Barbara Smyth, and Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Villa I Tatti Via di Vincigliata 26, 50135 Florence, Italy +39 055 603 251 [email protected] www.itatti.harvard.edu Among the most dynamic Italian literary texts of the sixteenth century, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso (1532) emerged from a world whose international horizons were rapidly expanding. At the same time, Italy was subjected to a succession of debilitating political, social, and religious crises. is interdisciplinary conference takes its point of departure in Jorge Luis Borges’ celebrated poem “Ariosto y los Arabes” (1960) in order to focus on the Muslim world as the essential ‘other’ in the Furioso. Bringing together a diverse range of scholars working on European and Near Middle Eastern history and culture, the conference will examine Ariosto’s poem, its earlier sources, contemporary resonance, and subsequent reception within a matrix of Mediterranean connectivity from late antiquity through the medieval period, into early modernity, and beyond. Organized by Mario Casari, Monica Preti, and Michael Wyatt. AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OCTOBER 18 - 19, 2017 VILLA I TATTI, FLORENCE Contexts of the Orlando Furioso Ariosto and the Arabs ARIOSTO AND THE ARABS Contexts of the Orlando Furioso
Transcript of 18 - 19, 2017 Ariosto -,% &+2* C T I · Africa and India in Ariosto and Camões 16.00 iscussion...
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