DAY 1 Tuesday, October 1, 2024

2:15-2:30 PM Introductory Remarks
Alfredo PATERNOSTER (Director, Department of Letters, Philosophy, Communication, University of Bergamo)
Alberto COMPARINI (University of Bergamo)

2:30-3:00 PM Presentation of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Programs and Postdoctoral Fellowships “Research in Germany. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Opportunities”
Alessandra BECCARISI (University of Foggia; the Foundation’s Ambassador Scientist for Italy)

Panel 1: CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND THE LYRIC
3:00-4:00 PM Keynote Lecture.
“Epic and Lyric in Prudentius, Peristephanon and Cathemerinon”
Philip HARDIE (Cambridge University)

4:30 PM Coffee break
Chair and Respondent
Cecilia NOBILI (University of Bergamo)
Laura SWIFT (Oxford University)

5:00-5:30 PM “IntraPindaric Connections: Pindar’s Isthmian 1 and Paean 4”
Leonardo D’ADDARIO (Leipzig University)

5:30-6:00 PM “An Early Chapter of the Classical Poetry Book. The Editions of the Greek Lyricists”
Enrico Emanuele PRODI (University of Cagliari)

6:00-6:30 PM “Corinna’s Asopides’ Poem (654b PMG). An Interweaving of Poetic Genres”
Tullia SPINEDI (University of Bergamo)
8:30 PM Dinner

DAY 2 Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Panel 2: THE LYRIC TURN IN THE MIDDLE AGES
9:00-10:00 AM Keynote Lecture.
“Canzoniere V-VI. The Name of Laura and the Phenomenology of Petrarchan Love”
Andreas KABLITZ (University of Cologne)

10:30 AM Coffee break

Chair and Respondent
LUCA LOMBARDO (University of Bergamo)

11:00-11:30 AM “Modern French and Italian Lyric Poetry and
the Middle Ages: Reuses, Quotations, Transformations”
Gaia GUBBINI (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

11:30-12:00 AM “‘Sciogliere il verso.’ Some Prosodic Notes about the Influence of the Prose in Dante’s endecasillabi from Petrose to Commedia”
Elena NICCOLAI (University of Ferrara)

12:00-12:30 PM “Polyphony and Polymorphism. Poetry for Music in the Fourteenth Century”
Vittoria BRANCATO (University of Florence)

1:30 PM Lunch

Panel 3: CRAFTING LYRIC THEORY AND POETICS IN THE RENAISSANCE
3:30-4:30 AM Keynote Lecture. “Renaissance Lyric Theory. Poetics, Rhetoric, Practice”
Gavin ALEXANDER (Cambridge University)

5:00 PM Coffee break

Chair and Respondent
Alberto COMPARINI (University of Bergamo)

5:30-6:00 PM “Intersections between Lyric and Epic in 15th and 16th Century Italy”
Giulia ZAVA (Opera del Vocabolario Italiano)

6:00-6:30 PM “Lyric Poetry and Renaissance Politics. Venice as the New Rome in Celio Magno’s Poems”
Giacomo COMIATI (University of Padua)

6:30-7:00 AM “Lyric Gestures and Poetic Code. The Case of Francesca Turini Bufalini”
Francesco GISTI (Oxford University)

8:30 PM Dinner

DAY 3 Thursday, October 3, 2024

Panel 4: LYRICOLOGY IN THE CONTEMPORARY
9:00-10:00 AM Keynote Lecture.
“Notes on the Gedichtete. Hölderlin between Adorno, Heidegger, and Benjamin”
Luca VIGLIALORO (HBK Essen)
Chair and Respondent
Elena AGAZZI (University of Bergamo)

10:30-11:00 AM “Buch, Zyklus or Sammlung? On Rainer Maria Rilke’s Late Poems (1925-1926)”
Matilde MANARA (École Normale Supérieure – ITEM)

11:00-11:30 AM “Scholar’s Lyric: Contemporary Criticism and Lyric Performance”
Elizabeth Sarah COLES (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)

11:30-12:0O AM “A Dialectic of Absence.
Toward a Theoretical Understanding of the Role of Silence in Lyric Poetry”
Diego TERZANO (University of Pisa)