Please join us for the following lecture by Edoardo Ripari: "Italian Chivalric Literature and Cinema." Wednesday, April 20, 5:00-6:00. 501 Hamilton Hall. Columbia University (Morningside campus)

This lecture aims to explore the fortune of Italian chivalric literature in the twentieth century through the examination of cinematographic adaptations of Ariosto's Orlando furioso and Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata across a period of almost one hundred years. This is also an opportunity to reflect on the history of literary reception through the comparison between verbal and audiovisual texts.

Edoardo Ripari (University of Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum) is author of many papers about Italian literary culture from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. He has edited the works of Traiano Boccalini, Torquato Accetto, Virgilio Malvezzi, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Alessandro Manzoni and Giosuè Carducci. Among his books are L'accetta e il fuoco. Cultura storiografica, politica e poesia in Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (Roma, Bulzoni, 2010), Storia cinematografica della letteratura italiana (Roma, Carocci, 2015), and L'onesta operosità. Vita di Tommaso Casini (Bologna, Pendragon, 2016).

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Jo Ann Cavallo, Professor and Chair
Columbia University Department of Italian
514 Hamilton Hall, MC 2835. 1130 Amsterdam Avenue. New York, NY 10027