The New Boccaccio: Scholar, Scribe, Reader
To celebrate the seventh centenary of Giovanni Boccaccio’s birth (1313–2013) several cultural activities took place around the world. Our seminar focuses on a set of articles collected in the journal Italia Medioevale e Umanistica and entirely devoted to the Italian ‘humanist’. The aim was to disclose a new profile of Boccaccio, who should now be recognised not just as the novelist of the Decameron, but as a scribe and a scholar as important as Petrarch devoted to the rediscovery and study of the Latin Classics. Our seminar will discuss the methodological approach underpinning that major advance: a method which is based on the collaboration between philologists and palaeographers, the former specialising in researching textual transmission, the latter in exploring the materiality of texts. There will be a small display of some relevant manuscripts and early printed books, and a discussion of the application of this source-based methodology to the transmission of texts in print, facilitated by tools developed in the digital Humanities.
Date:
23 October 2015, 14:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2015)
Venue:
Bodleian Library
Venue Details:
Weston Library, Lecture Theatre
Speakers:
Irene Ceccherini,
Matilde Malaspina,
Martin McLaughlin,
Angelo Piacentini,
Michael Reeve,
Nigel Wilson
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whats-on/upcoming-events/2015/oct/boccaccio
Booking email:
irene.ceccherini@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Laura Spence
