HUMBOLDT KOLLEG
Lyric Poetry, between Theory and History. Forms, Reception, and Metamorphoses of a Literary Genre
October 1-3, 2024

Aula 1 Bernareggi, Palazzo Bassi Rathgeb University of Bergamo, via Pignolo 76 – Bergamo

Organizer
Alberto COMPARINI (University of Bergamo)
Contact Information
Maria MAFFEI (maria.maffei@unibg.it)
Supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

DAY 1 Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Introductory Remarks
Alfredo PATERNOSTER (Director, Department of Letters, Philosophy, Communication, University of Bergamo)
Alberto COMPARINI (University of Bergamo)

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

Keynote Lecture.
“Epic and Lyric in Prudentius, Peristephanon and Cathemerinon” Philip HARDIE (Cambridge University)

Chair and Respondent
Cecilia NOBILI (University of Bergamo) Laura SWIFT (Oxford University)

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

“An Early Chapter of the Classical Poetry Book. The Editions of the Greek Lyricists” Enrico Emanuele PRODI (University of Cagliari)

“Corinna’s Asopides’ Poem (654b PMG). An Interweaving of Poetic Genres” Tullia SPINEDI (University of Bergamo)

DAY 2 Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Panel 2: THE LYRIC TURN IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Keynote Lecture.
“Canzoniere V-VI. The Name of Laura and the Phenomenology of Petrarchan Love” Andreas KABLITZ (University of Cologne)

Chair and Respondent
LUCA LOMBARDO (University of Bergamo)

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

“‘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)

“Polyphony and Polymorphism. Poetry for Music in the Fourteenth Century” Vittoria BRANCATO (University of Florence)

Panel 3: CRAFTING LYRIC THEORY AND POETICS IN THE RENAISSANCE

Keynote Lecture. “Renaissance Lyric Theory. Poetics, Rhetoric, Practice” Gavin ALEXANDER (Cambridge University)
Coffee break

Chair and Respondent
Alberto COMPARINI (University of Bergamo)

“Intersections between Lyric and Epic in 15th and 16th Century Italy” Giulia ZAVA (Opera del Vocabolario Italiano)

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

“Lyric Gestures and Poetic Code. The Case of Francesca Turini Bufalini” Francesco GISTI (Oxford University)

DAY 3 Thursday, October 3, 2024
Panel 4: LYRICOLOGY IN THE CONTEMPORARY

Keynote Lecture.
“Notes on the Gedichtete. Hölderlin between Adorno, Heidegger, and Benjamin” Luca VIGLIALORO (HBK Essen)

Chair and Respondent Elena AGAZZI (University of Bergamo)

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

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

“A Dialectic of Absence. Toward a Theoretical Understanding of the Role of Silence in Lyric Poetry” Diego TERZANO (University of Pisa)