The Devers Program in Dante Studies at Notre Dame and the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies in conjunction with the AHRC-funded project “Dante and Late Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society,” have organized a conference

“Dante and Late Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society”

to take place on 13-14 June, 2013 at the University of Notre Dame in London,  Suffolk Street, SW1Y 4HG

To register, please visit the ND Conference Center website.

For more information, please visit the conference website.

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item:

Antonio Piller, ed.  Miscellanea, o Raccolta di pezzi scelti da' più celebri autori classici Italiani.  Moscow: dalla stamperia N. S. Vsevolojsky, 1817.  First and only edition

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item:

Gasparo Bugati. Historia vniversale. Venice: Gabriel Giolito, 1570.  First edition.

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item:

Pier Paolo Pasolini.  Poesie a Casarsa.  Bologna: Libreria Antiquaria, 1942.  First edition.

Italian Studies at Notre Dame announces the “giornata di studi” Italian Identities: Dialects, Minorities, Literatures. This one-day conference will investigate the connections between the modern anthropological and sociological context of Italy and the use of dialects. The conference will focus in particular on how literature has responded to both the ever-present issue of the uneven economic development and the crisis of the so-called Italian identity in the last thirty years.  In order to achieve its goals, our one-day symposium will be divided in three main panels, each one dedicated to exploring the topic from a specific – linguistic, socio-anthropological and more purely literary – perspective.…

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item:

La difesa della razza.  Rome, Società anonima istituto romano di arti grafiche di Tumminelli.  117 issues, dating from August 1938- June 1943.

Published biweekly from August 5, 1938, to June 20, 1943, La difesa della razza (The Defense of the race) ...

Italian Studies at Notre Dame announces the official launch of this year's series of "Italian Film Nights," whose theme is "Rome in the Cinema." The "Italian Film Nights," which are in their 8th year of existence, are intended to give students enrolled in Italian courses additional opportunities for enrichment in and out of the classroom. The films of the Fall semester provided a historic progression of events in the city of Rome, while the films of the Spring semester will portray more contemporary themes.…

Organized by art history graduate student Elizabeth Peterson, this focus exhibition explores the decorative principles established in Italy by the Renaissance humanist and architect Leon Battista Alberti (1401–72) and their dissemination to France in subsequent centuries.

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: 

Modesta Pozzo de' Giorgi [Moderata Fonte, pseud.]  Tredici canti del Floridoro. Venice: nella stamparia de'Rampazetti, 1581.  First edition, with 13 full-page woodcuts in text.

This is the first and only edition of Tredici canti del Floridoro…

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: 

Francesco Sansovino.  The Quintesence of wit,: being a corrant comfort of conceites, maximies, and poleticke deuises, selected and gathered together by Francisco Sansouino...