Conferenza a cura di Unn Falkeid, Aileen A. Feng, Anders Cullhed, Johanna Värnquist
Primavera letteraria italiana:
In the wake of the new interest in Stampa’s poetry among European and American scholars, we invite you to this mini-conference: Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Literature.
Gaspara Stampa (1523–1554), considered one of the greatest and most creative poets of the Italian Renaissance, was celebrated in her own time as the new Sappho who renewed the female voice as both a singer and a poet. Despite her young age – she died when she was only 31 years old – her Rime is not only the most extensive collection of poetry written by a woman in the Renaissance, but also one of the largest and most varied canzonieri in Italian literature. For many centuries she was almost forgotten, even though she appeared as a figure in romantic novels, and remembered by poets such as Rainer Maria Rilke.This conference reflects a new scholarly interest in her work.
Conference Language: English. No conference fees. Light refreshments will be served.
Open for all. Welcome!
Program:
* Aileen A. Feng, Assistant Professor of Italian, University of Arizona: “Desiring Subjects: Mimetic Desire and Female Jealousy in Stampa’s Rime”
*Anders Cullhed, Professor of Comparative Literature, Stockholm University: “’Phaeton, Icarus, and me’: Gaspara Stampa, Rime 8”.
*Johanna Värnquist, PhD-student in Comparative Literature, Linköping University: “‘Holy angels, I don’t envy you one bit’: Stampa, Ficino, and Renaissance Platonism”.
*Unn Falkeid, Postdoc in Italian Literature, University of Oslo: “Gaspara Stampa and the Sublimity of Passions”.For more information, please see the link to the event on the University of Oslo’s website here