Renaissance Society of America

The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America Boston, 31 March–2 April 2016 Park Plaza Hotel and Hynes Convention Center Five panels sponsored by the FISIER L'Europe des Savoirs à la Renaissance / Forms of Knowledge in Renaissance Europe Sat, April 2, 3:30 to 5:00pm, Park Plaza, Mezzanine, Berkeley Room ORGANIZER: Cecilia Muratori, Warwick University CHAIR: Sara Olivia Miglietti, Johns Hopkins University Entre savoir et savoir-­‐faire: "La Chasse Royale" de Charles IX Ingrid A. R. De Smet, University of Warwick Les travaux d’un apprenti écrivain à Genève au XVIe siècle Ilana Y. Zinguer, University of Haifa "The Geography is the eye of History": Knowledge and Delight in Renaissance Cosmographies Andréa Doré, Universidade Federal do Paraná Al-­‐Hajari: A Moroccan Author and Translator and His European Intellectual Network in the Early Seventeenth-­‐Century Oumelbanine N. Zhiri, University of California, San Diego Jacques Grévin à la croisée des savoirs Thu, March 31, 8:30 to 10:00am, Park Plaza, Fourth Floor, Winthrop Room ORGANIZER: Rosanna Gorris Camos, Università degli Studi di Verona CHAIR: Michael Meere, Wesleyan University “Une Muse perfette": Poésie et science dans les recueils poétiques de Jacques Grévin -­‐ Rosanna Gorris Camos, Università degli Studi di Verona Jacques Grévin et le savoir zoologique dans les recueils d'emblèmes et dans les Livres des venins Daniele Speziari, Università degli Studi di Verona Quelques réflexions sur Jacques Grévin médecin et traducteur du De Præstigiis Dæmonum de Jean Wier Riccardo Benedettini, Università degli Studi di Verona Old Wine in New Bottles: Translation, Retranslation, and Readaptation (Sixteenth-­‐Century France and England) Fri, April 1, 10:30am to 12:00pm, Park Plaza, Fourth Floor, Holmes Room ORGANIZER: Florence Bistagne, Université d'Avignon CHAIR: Rosanna Gorris Camos, Università degli Studi di Verona Translating Virgil in Sixteenth-­‐Century France: From Marot to Bellay Florence Bistagne, Université d'Avign Is the Humanist the Author? Translating and Commenting Ancient Greek Texts in the Sixteenth Century Raphaële Mouren, Warburg Institute, University of London Competing Translations in Sixteenth-­‐Century England Susan Baddeley, Université de Versailles St-­‐Quentin-­‐ en-­‐Yvelines Renaissance Climate Theories: Science or Rhetoric? Sat, April 2, 1:30 to 3:00pm, Park Plaza, Fourth Floor, Emerson Room ORGANIZER: Sara Olivia Miglietti, Johns Hopkins University CHAIR: Nancy Frelick, University of British Columbia “Hippocrates, cuius summa semper fuit autoritas": Making (and Unmaking) Climatological Expertise in Renaissance Europe Sara Olivia Miglietti, Johns Hopkins University Climate Theories and Cosmopolitanism: Pierre Charron’s De la Sagesse Dorine Rouiller, Université de Genève The Eloquence of Climate: Persuading about Reason of State Richard Spavin, Université de Montréal The Sound of Poetry: A Comparative Approach to Rhetoric, Poetics, and Music V Fri, April 1, 5:30 to 7:00pm, Hynes Convention Center, Level Two, 205 ORGANIZERS: Francesca Bortoletti, University of Leeds; Eugenio Refini, Johns Hopkins University CHAIR: Anthony M. Cummings, Lafayette College Petrarch, Performance, and Orality: Humanist Improvisers and the Diffusion of Petrarchismo Blake Wilson, Dickinson College The Mask of the Humanist Improviser in the Aragonese Arcadia: Oral Performance and Written Practices Francesca Bortoletti, University of Leeds Performing Poetry In Early Renaissance Rome: A Survey and Some Reflections on Texts and Settings Raimondo Guarino, Università degli Studi Roma Tre