Date/Time
Date(s) - 6 Oct 2014
6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Bettman Lecture Hall, 612 Schermerhorn, Columbia University
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“Memory Palaces: The Renaissance and the Contemporary World”
6pm, Monday, October 6
Bettman Lecture Hall (Room 612), Schermerhorn Hall
Lina Bolzoni is Professor of Italian Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where she is the founding director of the Center for Data Processing of Texts and Images in the Literary Tradition. Professor Bolzoni is also the Global Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at New York University. Professor Bolzoni’s research interests include the art of memory, portraiture within the poetic and figurative traditions, sacred and profane oratory, and the relationship between literature and philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Among Professor Bolzoni’s many publications are The Gallery of Memory: Literary and Iconographic Models in the Age of the Printing Press (Italian: 1995; English: 2001), The Web of Images: Vernacular Preaching from its Origins to St. Bernardino da Siena (Italian: 2002; English: 2004), Il cuore di cristallo. Ragionamenti d’amore, poesia e ritratto nel Rinascimento (2010), and Il lettore creativo. Percorsi cinquecenteschi fra memoria, gioco, scrittura (2012). http://www.sns.it/en/didattica/lettere/menunews/personale/docenti/bolzoni/
Sponsored by the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia University, the Bettman Lecture series was endowed by Linda Bettman, a former graduate student in the department, and is named in her honor. The lecture will be followed by a reception.