Presented with the NYU Department of Italian Studies, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò and the Medieval and Renaissance CenterIn collaboration with Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies and Department of Italian
Dante as a Political Theorist: Historicizing Theology and Theologizing Power
An International Symposium on “Monarchia”
Launching The Global Dante Project of New York
Directors: Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) & Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia University)
Complete Program:
8:30-1:00: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University (24 West 12th Street)
2:45-6:30: Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University (1161 Amsterdam Avenue)
In ENGLISH.
Conference Program
8:30-1:00: Casa Italian Zerilli-Marimò, New York University
24 West 12th Street
2:45-6:30: Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
At NYU
8:30-9:00
Welcome
Virginia Cox (Chair, Department of Italian Studies, NYU)
Stefano Albertini (Director, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, NYU)
Opening Remarks
Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) & Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia)
First Session: 9:00-10:15
Chair: Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia University)
Gianfranco Fioravanti (Università di Pisa)
“Attuare sempre e interamente la potenza intellettiva dell’intero genere umano”: ancora su Dante ed Averroè
Federica Anichini (Fordham University)
Municipal Implications and Political Theories from the Vita Nova to the Monarchia
Justin Steinberg (University of Chicago)
Dante’s Theology of Miracles in Monarchia II.4: Law, Sovereignty, Violence
Second Session: 10:15-11:30
Chair: Virginia Cox (New York University)
Maria Luisa Ardizzone (New York University)
Wireless Communications: Invisible Links between Convivio and Monarchia
Warren Ginsberg (University of Oregon)
“Fenno una rota di sé tutti e trei”: Dialectic, Rhetoric, and History in the Monarchia
Iacopo Costa (CNRS-LEM, Villejuif-Commission Léonine, Paris)
Volontà dell’imperatore e libertà nell’impero
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
Third Session: 11:45-1:00
Chair: Andrea Tabarroni (Università di Trento)
Prue Shaw (University of Cambridge)
British Library ms. Add. 6891 of the Monarchia
Paolo Chiesa (Università di Milano)
Dante scienziato e Dante profeta: i tre prologhi della Monarchia
Francis Hittinger (Columbia University)
Dante as Critic of Political Economy in the Monarchia
At Columbia
2:45-3:00
Welcome
Barbara Faedda (Acting Director, Italian Academy, Columbia University)
Jo Ann Cavallo (Chair, Department of Italian, Columbia University)
Fourth Session: 3:00-4:15
Chair: Maria Luisa Ardizzone (New York University)
Andrea Tabarroni (Università di Trento)
“Magister Sex Principiorum” e il realismo delle Forme nel pensiero politico di Dante
William Caferro (Vanderbilt University and Italian Academy Fellow)
Dante, Empire and the Transfiguration of Charlemagne
Paola Ureni (The City University of New York)
Medicine and Politics in Dante’s Monarchia
Fifth Session: 4:15-5:00
Chair: Justin Steinberg (University of Chicago)
Donatella Stocchi (University of Rochester)
Power and Right: Dante’s Monarchia and the Juridical Literature in the First Half of the 13th Century
Diego Quaglioni (Università di Udine)
Il realismo politico di Dante
5:00-5:15
Concluding Remarks
Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia University)
5:15-6:30 Reception