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New date Feb. 10! 桃子视频鈥檚 Department of Italian Studies and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies are delighted to invite you to a seminar by the 2015-16 SIMS Visiting Research Fellow Angelo Piacentini (Universit脿 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), "A Chapter of Early Italian Humanism in Philadelphia Manuscripts".
The lecture will focus mainly on听, written in Milan about 1450, witness of the听Moralis philosophie dyalogusby Uberto Decembrio (ca. 1360-1427), one of the most important figures of the early generation of humanists after Petrarch鈥檚 death, father of Pier Candido Decembrio, the most celebrated humanist in Milan in the age of duke Filippo Maria Visconti. Uberto is considered a pioneer in the introduction of Greek literature in Italy and in Western Europe, because of his collaboration with the Byzantine diplomat Manuel Chrysoloras translating Plato鈥檚听Republic听into Latin. Analyzing the structure of the听Moralis philosophie dyalogus听and his Classical sources, we shall try to answer this question: what was his role in the translation of Plato?听听听听听 In addition,听, copied in 1409 probably in Romagna, will be examined. It contains a rich anthology of rare humanistic texts, including the only witness of four letters and a Latin oration by Donato Albanzani, a humanist from Ravenna and very good friend of Petrarch and dedicatee of Boccaccio鈥檚听Buccolicum carmen.Both manuscripts will be on view before (from 5pm) and after the seminar (until 7pm).听
All are invited but we ask that you please听听to ensure seating.
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