Activity Type:
Lecture
Presenter:
James Coleman
Date:
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 17:30
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
602 Cathedral of Learning
James Coleman holds a Ph.D. in Italian from Yale University, and a B.A. in
Classics, also from Yale. He has published research on Italian literature from
the Trecento to the Settecento. His published work includes essays on
Giovanni Boccaccio's De Canaria, Angelo Poliziano and Quattrocento
Florentine humanism, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and the thought of
Giambattista Vico. He has forthcoming work on the humanist forger Laudivio
Zacchia, the first vernacular commentary on Lucretius's De rerum natura,
and the Renaissance reception of Boccaccio's Genealogia. He is currently
completing a book manuscript entitled Orphic Poetry in Renaissance Italy.
UCIS Unit:
European Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors:
Humanities Center
World Regions:
Europe