RESEARCH PROJECT OF RELEVANT NATIONAL INTEREST 2022 Environmentalism and Wellbeing in Italian Literature: Elena Croce, Bassani, Calvino and Stanislao Nievo
9.30 a.m. Institutional greetings and introduction
- NICOLANGELO D'ACUNTO, Director of the Department of Medieval, Humanist and Renaissance Studies
- GIUSEPPE LUPO, Director of the Research Center "Literature and Culture of United Italy - Francesco Mattesini"
- BENEDETTA CRAVERI, President of the Benedetto Croce Library Foundation
- ROBERTA FERRO, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
10.00 a.m. Start of the works
Moderator: MARCO CORRADINI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Session 1: Elena Croce
- ALESSANDRA CAPUTI, Benedetto Croce Library Foundation, Naples,
Elena Croce's role in Italia Nostra and the battles for environmental protection - FRANCESCO ROSSINI, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart,
Literature, criticism and reflections on the Italian landscape in the unpublished correspondence of Elena Croce
Coffee break
Session 2: Giorgio Bassani
- OTTAVIO GHIDINI, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart,
'Venise des saisons'. A city for Bassani - DAVIDE LUGLIO, Sorbonne Université, Paris,
Giorgio Bassani and the sacredness of nature
12.30 pm Lunch break
2.00 p.m. Resumption of work
Moderator: ATTILIO MOTTA, University of Padua
Session 3: The role of magazines and Italo Calvino
- MASSIMILIANO TORTORA, University of Studies "La Sapienza", Rome, Ecological writings and intellectual crossings in literary journals
- DAVIDE SAVIO, University "G. d'Annunzio", Chieti-Pescara, The insecticides of Villa Meridiana. On the disharmonious ecologism of the Calvino family
- FRANCESCA RUBINI, Calvino Laboratory, Rome / University of Milano-Bicocca, «Between old stones and always new vegetation». Journey to Calvino's cities
Coffee break
Session 4: The Language of Environmentalism and Literary Parks
- ANNA FAVA, University "Federico II", Naples, The words of the environment in Elena Croce: continuity and discontinuity with the language of Italian environmentalism of the early twentieth century
- VERONICA PESCE, University of Genoa, Literary Parks: from Stanislao Nievo to future prospects
5.00 p.m. Concluding discussion
Organization and scientific responsibility:
Roberta FERRO, Francesco ROSSINI
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With the patronage of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, the Department of Medieval, Humanist and Renaissance Studies, the Research Center "Literature and Culture of United Italy - Francesco Mattesini", the ADI-Association of Italianists, the Benedetto Croce Library Foundation, the Giorgio Bassani Foundation and Italia Nostra-National Association for the Protection of the Historical, Artistic and Natural Heritage of the Nation.
