Generously supported by the Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Fund, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, and the Society for Italian Studies. The conference will be livestreamed; to register, please click here. In-person participation will be limited to speakers and official discussants. For any questions, please email Helena Phillips-Robins (hcp34@cam.ac.uk) or Lachlan Hughes (ldbh2@cam.ac.uk).
Conference Programme:
Friday 19 September
11:20–11:30
OPENING REMARKS
11:30–13:15
PANEL 1: LIVES
Chair: Helena Phillips-Robins
Federico Rossi (Università della Svizzera Italiana): Within the Walls of the Text: The Vita of Umiliana de’ Cerchi and Its Reception Context
Natale Vacalebre (University of Alcalá): ‘Per mia divotione et diporto’: Contarina Gabrielli Ubaldini’s Vita di San Francesco (1519) and the Female Voice in Early Modern Hagiography
Matteo Largaiolli (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano): Devotional Motifs and Intermediality in a Hagiographic Poem on Catherine of Siena by Giovanni Pollio Lappoli (1505)
Jessica Maratsos (University of Cambridge): Reframing Saint Catherine of Siena: Textual Authority and the Gendered Relic
14:15–16:00
PANEL 2: CODIFYING DEVOTION
Chair: Virginia Cox
Carlotta Moro (University of Exeter): ‘Presi ardita la penna, alta regina’: Camilla Bonfiglio’s Libro di lodi delle donne e della crudeltà degli uomini Between Prayer and Polemic
George Corbett (University of St Andrews): Dante and Theology
Erminia Ardissino (University of Turin): Prayer: Theories and Texts in Florence in the Late 15th Century
Gabriele Bucchi (University of Basel): Early Modern Literary Confessions: Staging Piety and Constructing Self-Repentance
16:30–17:45
PANEL 3: IMAGINED DEVOTIONS
Chair: Jessica Maratsos
Becky Reilly (University of Cambridge): Marian Identification between the Erotic and the Maternal: The Embrace of Christ in the Tomb in Angela of Foligno’s Memoriale
Giuseppe Ledda (University of Bologna):Literary, Devotional, and Theological Ineffability in Jacopone da Todi’s Laudarium
Lachlan Hughes (University of Cambridge): Devotional Masochism in Jacopone
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Saturday 20 September
9:15–11:00
PANEL 4: Magdalena degna da laudare: Devotional and Contemplative Themes in the Lauda Repertory for Mary Magdalene (ERC Project ‘LAUDARE’)
Chair: Lachlan Hughes
Matteo Leonardi (University of Trento): The Magdalene of the Confraternities: Reinterpretations of a Sinful Saint in the Lauda Repertoire
Lucia Marchi (University of Trento): The Role of Music in Mary Magdalene’s Devotion
Cristina Ghirardini (University of Trento): Mary Magdalene in Italian Traditional Music
Giacomo Pirani (University of Trento): Ruminating on Lauda: Devotional Songs in the Cells of the Italian Monastic Reform
11:30–12:45
PANEL 5: CONTEXTS AND COMPILATIONS
Chair: George Corbett
Dávid Falvay (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): The Meditationes Vitae Christi and Jacopone da Todi
Noemi Pigini (CNR Institute Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, Florence): Repurposing Monastic Works as Devotional Devices: Lay Translation Practices in Siena (14th–15th Century)
Jonathan Schiesaro (University of Bern): ‘In Nomine Domini’: Tracing Devotional Practices in Florentine Family Books
14:00–15:45
PANEL 6: USE AND RE-USE
Chair: Anna Pegoretti
Nicola De Nisco (University of Siena): Scaling Devotion: Tracing the Vernacular Journey of the Gradi di San Girolamo
Valentina Rovere (Palacký University Olomouc): Echoes from the Cloister: The Devotional Reception of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De montibus
Ditta Szemere (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): Choices and Possibilities: The Collection and Use of Devotional Literature in Late Medieval Umbrian Poor Clare Communities
Helena Phillips-Robins (University of Cambridge): ‘Until…you kiss me with the happiest kiss of your mouth’: The Letters of Clare of Assisi and the Performance of Liturgy
Discussants: Virginia Cox (University of Cambridge), Caitlín Kane (UCL), Catherine Keen (UCL), Anna Pegoretti (University of Cambridge).