Friday, April 24 (8:30am – 5:00pm) and Saturday, April 25 (8:30 – 5:00pm)

• Keynote Speaker:  Jonathan Galassi, President and Publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Roundtable and Closing Lecture:  Jennifer Scappettone, University of Chicago

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Friday, April 24, 2015

Morning (Thompson Room, Baker Center – Harvard University)

8:30—9:15 Breakfast

9:15—9:30 Introduction – Behind a Title: Inspirations, Aims and Perspectives

9:30—10:30 Jonathan Galassi, President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Translating Paradox

10:30—11:00 Coffee Break

11:00—12:30 Twentieth-century Italian Translating Networks
(Chairs: Cecelia Signati; Morris Karp)

Serena Alessi (Royal Holloway University of London)
Re-writing the Odyssey: Penelope’s Time

Isabella Mattazzi (Università di Ferrara)
Calvino traduttore / Calvino editore / Calvino narratore: la pratica traduttiva
all’interno della grande rete della scrittura calviniana

Thomas Wisniewski (Harvard University)
Translating Theory Into Practice in the Contemporary Italian Novel

12:30—2:00 Lunch Break

Afternoon (Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall – Harvard University)

2:00—3:00 The Shadow of Volgarizzamenti: From Modernity to the Middle Ages
(Chairs: Marco Aresu; Wuming Chang)

Anna Porczyk (University of Warsaw)
Come tradurre la Bibbia. Teoria e pratica secondo Erri De Luca

Federico Rossi (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Le Meditationes vite Christi in volgare: storia di una traduzione tra parole e immagini nell’autunno del Medioevo

3:00—3:30 Coffee Break

3:30—5:00 Metamorphosizing Renaissance
(Chairs: Corrado Confalonieri; Zoe Langer)

Romana Cassi (Boston College)
De liberis educandis: una traduzione di Guarino

Victoria Fanti (Johns Hopkins University)
“Non vider gli occhi miei cosa mortale:” The Mythic vs. the Mortal in Translating
Michelangelo’s Verse

Simone Forlesi (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Machiavelli ‘distillato’ in aforismi: La mente di un uomo di Stato di Stefano Bertolini

5:00 Closing Reception