Andrea Torre
@chiorbo.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Literature and Visual arts. Petrarca, Ariosto, Tasso, Marino, Emblems, Memory
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Lettura critica della Gerusalemme Conquistata d Tasso, Padova 29-30 settembre #earlymodern #italianstudies #tasso
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In Arcadia (Roma, 22-23 settembre) preparando l’Edizione nazionale delle opere di Ludovico Ariosto… #ariosto #earlymodern #philology
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At the Summer School “Corpo a Corpo. Transhistorical and Transmedia Perspectives on Corporeality in Italian Culture” (September 16-19, 2025, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venezia) wth the lecture: “La ferita come spia ermeneutica e dispositivo memoriale: due esempi petrarcheschi”
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LOAC, Alaior, Menorca
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Manuel Rivera, ‘Metamorfosis’ at LOAC, Alaior, Menorca
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#menorca #capdecavaleria
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SNS Autumn School on Ludovico Ariosto and the Literary Civilization of the Renaissance, San Miniato, October 20-24, 2025: Registration deadline August 31
#earlymodern #ariosto #italianstudies
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Ricordando un surreale e affascinante pranzo al cinese di via Padova
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JUST OUT
With my article: “Forme della novella e discorso morale: Francesco Sansovino e Marco Mantova Benavides” #earlymodern
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JUST OUT
With my article: “Dall’emblema alla sequenza visiva. Su un’esegesi figurata dei Fragmenta” #earlymodern #petrarch #word&image
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JUST OUT
With my article: “Local Memory and Literary Landscape in Petrarch” #earlymodern #artofmemory #petrarch
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On May 28-29 in L’Aquila for the conference ART AND EPHEMERAL APPARATUS (ENTRANCES, PARTIES, FUNERALS) FOR MARGARITA OF AUSTRIA AND THE WOMEN OF THE HOUSE OF HABSBURG IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY #earlymodern #word&image
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Il 28-29 maggio a L’Aquila per il convegno ARTE E APPARATI EFFIMERI (ENTRATE, FESTE, FUNERALI) PER MARGHERITA D’AUSTRIA E LE DONNE DI CASA ASBURGO NEL CINQUECENTO #earlymodern #word&image
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On May 15 and 16, the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa will host the conference "I Triumphi di Petrarca: testo, esegesi, fortuna". The meeting will be an opportunity for scholars to discuss the most recent philological and hermeneutical acquisitions relating to Petrarch's poem. Online via Teams
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Il 15 e 16 maggio la Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa ospiterà il convegno «I Triumphi di Petrarca: testo, esegesi, fortuna». L’incontro sarà un’occasione di confronto tra studiosi e studiose sulle più recenti acquisizioni filologiche ed ermeneutiche relative al poema petrarchesco. Online via Teams
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Visita didattica alla mostra “Poesia e pittura nel Seicento” presso la Galleria Borghese, con gli allievi del corso di Letteratura italiana del Rinascimento. #earlymodern, #word&image
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Visita ad Arquà Petrarca nell’ambito della Summer School “Francesco Petrarca fra latino e volgare”, Padova 23-27 settembre 2024, #earlymodern, #italianstudies
Reposted by Andrea Torre
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"for this country, raving with hunger,
carefully tears itself to pieces with its own hands,
this country is divided from itself,
a rent, an inwardly divided heart
senselessly ticking, a bomb made of flesh,
a wet, an absent wound"

man spricht deutsch
tr. Michael Hamburger

[Not just Germany, alas]
Cover of Hans Magnus Enzensberger Selected Poems with photo of author
Reposted by Andrea Torre
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Remember the right-wing plot to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election by urging Iran to hold American hostages longer? You don’t? It’s a shocking example of the American right’s treachery that more people should know about. (Gift link to 2023 NYT story.)
A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election (Gift Article)
A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda.
www.nytimes.com