Petrarch and his places

International Landscape Study Days, 2005, second seminar

Friday 4-Saturday 5 February 2005

programme of the study days

Friday 4th February
Arquà (Padua), Parish meeting-room
9.30: Opening and welcome.
10 am-1 pm: «Vacate, et videte». Petrarch and the idea of landscape.
Seminar coordinated by LIONELLO PUPPI.
«Mirarer singula»: landscape between «cupiditas videndi» and «beata vita in ascensu montis», MASSIMO VENTURI FERRIOLO.
Petrarch, the landscape of stone and the perception of the environment in the Middle Ages, GHERARDO ORTALLI.
Flora and fauna in the Petrarchan landscape, MANLIO PASTORE STOCCHI (who was unable to participate).
Scheduled contributions from HERVÉ BRUNON on the “locus solitarius” and from GIOVANNI GALLI on Petrarch’s houses in Parma and Selvapiana.
Discussion.

2 pm-3.30 pm: On-the-spot investigation at Petrarch’s house, the gardens, the orchard, the setting, the environs.
2 pm-6.30 pm: Arquà in the Euganean Hills.
Seminar coordinated by DAVIDE BANZATO,
with GIAMPAOLO BARBARIOL, STEFANO BENVEGNÙ, MARIELLA MAGLIANI, GUGLIELMO MONTI.
Discussion.

Saturday 5th February
Treviso, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, via Cornarotta 7/a
9.30 am: Opening and welcome.
10 am-1 pm: Vaucluse at the springs of the Sorgue.
Seminar coordinated by MONIQUE MOSSER.
Introduction by JEAN GATEL.
The hydrogeology and mythology of the source of the Sorga, ROLAND PASTOR.
Le gouffre, la rime et le laurier. Une idéalisation du paysage de Vaucluse de Pétrarque aux romantiques, EVE DUPERRAY.
Fontaine de Vaucluse. Pour un projet global de protection et de mise en valeur. À la recherche du génie du lieu, NERTE DAUTIER.
Vaucluse, today, tomorrow, CHRISTIAN TALLIEUX.
Discussion.

2 pm-3.30 pm: Discussion.
3.30 pm-5.30 pm: «Non chiare acque». Eugenio Battisti’s eventful historicism.
Seminar coordinated by DOMENICO LUCIANI,
with CARMEN AÑÓN, MARCO DEZZI BARDESCHI, GIUSEPPA SACCARO DEL BUFFA.
6 pm-7 pm: From the garden to the countryside: Petrarch between philology and nature.
Final lecture by NICHOLAS MANN