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Luca Degl'Innocenti, one of the project's postdoctoral research fellows, gave a paper on 'Ariosto and the cantimpanca' on 30 November 2016 at UCL Italian. Read on for an outline of Luca's talk. 'First published in 1516, Ariosto's Orlando furioso soon became immensely popular, both in print and in oral recitations. For 500 years, it has...
The Cantastorie in Renaissance Italy: Street Singers between Oral and Literate Cultures, edited by Luca Degl’Innocenti, Massimo Rospocher, and Rosa Salzberg, forms a special issue of Italian Studies, 71.2 (May 2016). For details, see our Publications page.
Interactions between Orality and Writing in Early Modern Italian Culture, edited by three members of the project team, was published by Routledge in February 2016. For details, see our Publications page.
Talk by Luca Degl'Innocenti at the University of Bristol, 5:15pm, 3 December 2015: click here for details.
Talk by Brian Richardson at University College London, 6:15pm, 23 November 2015: click here for details.
Francesca Bortoletti is giving a paper on 'The Triumphal Entry of the Future Philip II into Milan' at the conference on Imperial Festivities in Hainault, 1549, held in Mons, 11-14 October 2015. Click here for information on the conference.
Two members of the Italian Voices project will present papers at the conference on ‘Voices and Books, 1500-1800′ to be held at Newcastle University: Stefano Dall’Aglio, ‘Rewriting Orality: Inquisition and Preachers’ Abjuration in Early Modern Italy’ Luca Degl’Innocenti, ‘Improvised Poetry in Early Modern Italy: Creating Verse out of Nothing, or Rather out of Books?’ Click...
On Monday 9 February 2015 Project Fellow Stefano Dall’Aglio will give a paper entitled Voices under Trial: Inquisition and Preachers in Sixteenth-Century Italy in Oxford, St Catherine's College. The talk will be part of the Italian Renaissance Seminar. The entire programme can be found here.
Closing date for applications: Monday 3 November 2014
A collection of essays based on papers given at the first three seminars organized by the project has been published as a special issue of The Italianist, 34.3 (2014), with the title Oral Culture in Early Modern Italy: Performance, Language, Religion. Click here for the table of contents.