CONF: The Afterlives of Ancient Poets in Medieval and Renaissance Biography

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Workshop: The Afterlives of Ancient Poets in Medieval and Renaissance Biography

Durham University
Thursday, 15 July 2010, 11:00 to 17:30
Ritson Room, Department of Classics & Ancient History

Sponsored by the Durham Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition

From 11 am: Late Morning Coffee and welcome

11.30 – 12.30: James Powell (Durham)
The Donatus Auctus Life of Virgil

12.30 – 13.30: Andrew Laird (Warwick):
Virgil and authorial identity in the Latin writings of Dante and Petrarch

13.30 – 14.30: Lunch break (provided)

14.30 – 15.30: Ingo Gildenhard (Durham) & Andrew Zissos (University of
California/ Irvine)
Ovid and the Shrew: some comments on the de vetula

15.30 – 15.45: Coffee Break

15.45 – 16.45: Johanna Hanink (Cambridge/ Brown)
Giovanni Boccaccio’s ‘Trattatello in laude di Dante’ and ancient poetic ‘vitae’

16.45: Concluding Discussion, chaired by Barbara Graziosi (Durham)

All welcome. There is no official registration, but for catering purposes,
anyone interested in attending is asked to contact me by 10 July at
ingo.gildenhard AT dur.ac.uk.

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