God's Jester

Program

Wednesday 17 April, 9.00 a.m.
Sala Blacks da Oleggio, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Largo Gemelli 1, Milan

Institutional greetings:
Fausto COLOMBO, Vice Rector for communication and promotion of the University's image
Msgr. Claudio GIULIODORI, General Ecclesiastical Assistant of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Andrea CANOVA, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Marco RIZZI, Director of Department/, name of unit of Religious Studies
Nicolangelo D'ACUNTO, Director of Department/, name of unit of Medieval, Humanistic and Renaissance Studies
Father Francesco IELPO, President of the Holy Land Foundation

First session: Reversals
Chair: Marco RIZZI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

9.30 a.m.
Gert MELVILLE, FOVOG – Dresden
Reversal as a key concept of a new institutionality: Francis and the Friars Minor.

10.10 a.m.
Nicolangelo D'ACUNTO, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
The reversal and foundation of a new spatiality of religious life.

Coffee break

11.00 a.m.
Chair: Marco RAININI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Gian Luca POTESTÀ, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Very high paupertas, sustainable economy, good use of money.

11.40 a.m.
Maria Pia ALBERZONI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
From the highest to the most holy paupertas.

Wednesday 17 April, 3.00 p.m.
Sala Blacks da Oleggio, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Chair: Nicolangelo D'ACUNTO, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Pietro MARANESI, Theological Institute of Assisi
The metaphorical paradox in the writings of Brother Francis: the language of a madman of Christ.

3.40 p.m.
Isabella GAGLIARDI, University of Florence
Novellus pazzus declined in the feminine? Holy Franciscan women between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age.

Coffee break

4.30 p.m.
Paolo EVANGELISTI, University of Lleida
'Poor in things', the project of an identity. Economic and Civil Pedagogy of Early Franciscanism.

5.10 p.m.
Marco RAININI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Reversed re-readings. Francis and Dominic, Friars Preachers and Friars Minor in the mirror of the Roman Curia.

Thursday 18 April, 9.00 a.m.
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo
Piazza Moretto 4, Brescia

Institutional greetings:
Francesca BAZOLI, President of the Brescia Museums Foundation
Giovanni GREGORINI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Stefano KARADJOV, Director of the Brescia Museums Foundation

Second session: Devices
Chair: Guido CARIBONI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

9.30 a.m.
Daniele GUASTINI, "Sapienza" University of Rome
From defectus  to canticum veritatis: on the Franciscan reversal of the relationship between religious art and theological doctrine.

10.10 a.m.
Antonio MONTEFUSCO, Universitè de Lorraine
History, Inquisition, Dissent: On Clareno's Historiographical Device (in comparison with Bernard Gui).

Coffee break

11.00 a.m.
Daniele SOLVI, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Meditations on the life of Christ between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

11.40 a.m.
Alessandra BARTOLOMEI ROMAGNOLI, Pontifical Gregorian University
The rhetoric of reversal in the mystical texts (sec. XIII-XV).

Thursday 18 April, 3.00 p.m.
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo

Chair: Roberta CARPANI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Carla BINO, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Simplicitas  as an anti-fictional device.

3.40 p.m.
Pietro DELCORNO, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
"De toto corpore fecerat linguam": Francis the preacher/word.

Coffee break

4.30 p.m.
Zuleika MURAT, University of Padua
Gentile's banner from the church of San Francesco in Fabriano: images, words and melodies for the Franciscans.

5.10 p.m.
Pietro MESSA, Pontifical University Antonianum
"Amarum conversum fuit in dulcedinem": a change of soul and body between lepers and the liturgy.

Friday 19 April, 9.00 a.m.
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo

Third session: Forms of representation

1. Dramatic Forms

Chair: Alessandro PONTREMOLI, University of Turin

Licia BUTTÀ, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona
«Nos sumus joculatores Domini». The invisible dance of Francis and the visible hierarchy of the angelic choirs.

9.40 a.m.
Paola VENTRONE, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Francesco and theatrical communication.

10.20 a.m.
Claudio BERNARDI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
«Et exaltavit humiles». Francis' Christmas.

Coffee break

11.10 a.m.
Mara NERBANO, Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara
A comparison of Umbrian fraternal devotions.

11.40 a.m.
Nerida NEWBIGIN, University of Sydney
"Di San Francesco, optimo fra minore": the ancient Florentine representations.

Friday 19 April, 3.00 p.m.
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo

2. Contemporary outcomes

Chair: Laura PEJA, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Franco PERRELLI, University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
St. Francis, Grotowski and Reduta.

3.40 p.m.
Raimondo Guarino, Roma Tre University
Franciscanism in the Twentieth Century. Mario Apollonio's insights on discipline and community.

Coffee break

4.30 p.m.
Antonio ATTISANI, University of Turin
Theatre of saying, theatre of doing: Francesco, or the missing of modern (theatre).

5.10 p.m.
Fabrizio FIASCHINI, University of Pavia
Franciscan Traces in Twentieth-Century Theatre Pedagogy
 

Scientific Direction:
Carla BINO, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Nicolangelo D'ACUNTO, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Scientific committee:
Fausto COLOMBO, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Fabrizio FIASCHINI, University of Pavia
Daniele GUASTINI, "Sapienza" University of Rome
Zuleika MURAT, University of Padua
Alessandro PONTREMOLI, University of Turin
Marco RIZZI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

For information
Department of Communication and Performing Arts
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