ISBN 978-0-7727-2114-3 $17.00 (Outside Canada, please pay in US $)

Edited by Laura Benedetti

With this translation of Marinella’s Exhortations to Women and to Others if They Please we can now read another crucial text from her extensive body of work, one that signals a radical ideological shift from her best known text, The Nobility and Excellence of Women; we can thus enjoy a fuller picture of the author and her opinions. Only three copies of the Exhortations have been located in any library, and in the absence of a critical edition this translation will prove to be a point of reference for scholars and students alike. Benedetti’s thorough introduction situates Marinella and her works within early seventeenth-century Venetian culture – and the Counter-Reformation more broadly – in a way that is profoundly influenced by philology and is also theoretically sound.

Maria Galli Stampino

Associate Professor of French and Italian, University of Miami

Laura Benedetti is the Laura and Gaetano De Sole Professor of Contemporary Italian Culture and Chair of the Italian Department at Georgetown University. She is the author of La sconfitta di Diana. Un percorso per la Gerusalemme Liberata and The Tigress in the Snow: Motherhood and Literature in Twentieth-Century Italy (winner of the 2008 Flaiano International Prize for Italian Studies).

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There are two services on February 2:  Said Eucharist at 12:15 pm and Procession & Solemn Eucharist at 7:00 pm. Reception to follow the Solemn Eucharist.

At the Solemn Eucharist at 7:00 pm, we will celebrate the Feast of the Purification of Mary according to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, with period music by Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) and Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656):

The First Service (“Dorian”) by Thomas Tallis, from John Barnard’s First Book of Select Church Musick (London, 1641).
Almighty and Everlasting God (The Collect for the Purification) by Thomas Tomkins.

2012 marks the 350th anniversary of the adoption in England of the 1662 version of the Book of Common Prayer, the version that is still the standard of worship for the Church of England.

For more information, click here.

Saluto inaugurale del Corso da parte del Rettore dell’Universita del Card. Colombo e del Parroco di San Marco.

Egle Becchi (Università di Pavia), Putti laboriosi: la loro parabola secolare.

17 gennaio

Monica Ferrari (Università di Pavia), Ideologie, strategie e materialità nell’educazione dei principi italiani del ’400. Il caso dei Conzaga e degli Sforza.

31 gennaio

Silvana Vecchio (Università di Ferrara), Infantia/infirmitas: l’immagine medievale del bambino.

7 febbraio

Maria Pia Paoli (Scuola Normale di Pisa), Infanzie di casa Medici: da Lorenzo il Magnifico a Cosimo I.

14 febbraio

Nadia Covini (Università degli Studi di Milano), Diplomazia infantile nel ’400.

21 febbraio

Federico Piseri (Università degli Studi di Milano), L’autografia dei bambini Sforza nel secondo ’400.

28 febbraio

Isabella Lazzarini (Università del Molise), Autografia dei principi delle corti italiane del ’400 tra Mantova e Ferrara.

6 marzo

Lucia Sandri (Istituto degli Innocenti di Firenze), L’infanzia abbandonata all’ospedale degli Innocenti di Firenze nel ’400 e nel ’500.

20 marzo

Maria Rosa Cortesi (Università di Pavia), Esercizi e saperi alla scuola di Vittorino da Feltre.

27 marzo

Gabriella Zuccolin (Università di Pavia), L’infanzia per un medici dei principi nel ’400: il caso di Savonarola.

The Thirty-Third Medieval Colloquium of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of
Toronto

Opening Keynote: Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin,
Harvard

Closing Keynote: Marjorie Curry Woods, Jane Blumberg Centennial Professor of English,
University Distinguished Teaching Professor, The University of Texas at Austin.

Interested parties should see the attached registration form for more details. Our
deadline for registration is 10 February, 2012.

Please note that registration forms should be sent via mail to the indicated address
along with an attached cheque. Fees are as follows:

Regular – $40
Senior – $25
Student – $15

For more information, including our call for papers and a preliminary program, please
visit our website.

For directions, accessibility requirements, or other concerns, please email Jessica
Lockhart at jessica.lockhart@utoronto.ca.

19–20 October 2012

Whereas much attention has been paid to the Burgundian Low Countries of the fifteenth century and the so-called Golden Age of the seventeenth, the culture of the Netherlands in the century in between has long been neglected. However, the past two decades have witnessed significant research on Netherlandish art, literature, and society of the sixteenth century. The period was famously marked by the twin flashpoints of iconoclasm and revolt, but it also witnessed significant developments in artistic, political, and literary culture.

Keynote addresses will be given by Herman Roodenburg (Head of the Department of Dutch Ethnology at the Meertens Institute and Chair of Historical Anthropology of Europe at the Free University of Amsterdam) and Peter Arnade (Professor of History, Chair, Department of History, California State University San Marcos).

For additional information please contact Tim Harrison at timothy.harrison@utoronto.ca.

When: Tuesday, January 10, 3:30PM-5:00PM

Where: Senior Common Room, Burwash Hall, Victoria College
(89 Charles Street, rear entrance)

Peter Latka (English): “‘Leave me, and then the story aptly ends’: Elizabethan Visual Culture and the Departure Scene in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis.”

Rachel Stapleton (Comp Lit): “La mujer varonil: Petitioning women and manly rewards.”

John McQuillen (Art History) will be moderating the discussion.

Coffee, tea, and cookies will be provided by the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies.

A lecture sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC) and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS).

Tea at 4:00, talk at 4:15.

A lecture sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC) and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS).

Tea at 4:00, talk at 4:15.

A lecture sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC) and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS).

Tea at 4:00, talk at 4:15.