Newberry Library summer seminar on Italian paleography

The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies announces the 2001
Summer Institute in the Italian Archival Sciences, a four week summer
seminar (18 June - 13 July 2001) directed by Armando Petrucci and
Franca Nardelli.

Drs. Armando Petrucci and Franca Nardelli, who led the 1993 Newberry
Library Summer Institute in the Italian Archival Sciences, will be
returning to direct the 2001 Summer Institute. Under their tutelage,
participants will receive intensive training in the accurate reading
and transcription of late medieval and Renaissance Italian vernacular
texts.
Although the major emphasis of the Institute is on paleographical
skills, codicological techniques and analytical bibliography, the
history of scripts, within the larger literary, intellectual and
social contexts of Italy will be considered. Participants will also
be introduced to textual editing, receiving training in the
techniques required to proceed from a manuscript to a modern critical
edition. The course will be conducted in Italian.

The Institute is supported by generous grants from The Gladys Krieble
Delmas Foundation, the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, and the
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies consortium
universities, with special assistance from Northwestern University.
Funds are available for graduate students and faculty of the Newberry
Library Center for Renaissance Studies consortium universities to
travel to the Newberry Library to attend the Institute.

The application deadline is 1 March 2001

Armando Petrucci, formerly Director of the Institute of Paleography
at the University of Rome, now teaches at the Scuola Normale
Superiore of Pisa.
His latest publications include Alfabetismo, escritura, sociedad
(1999) and Prima lezione di storia della cultura scritta
(forthcoming), as well as articles and essays on the history of
writing and literacy. He is currently preparing a critical edition of
all original correspondence in Latin dating from the seventh to the
eleventh centuries.

Franca Petrucci Nardelli, author of numerous studies on the history
and codicology of the printed book, and the politics and culture of
the Italian Renaissance, currently teaches at the University of Pisa
and the "Corso europeo di specializzazione per conservatori e
restauratori di beni librari" of Spoleto. Her most recent
publications include articles and essays on printing and binding
history, and Fra stampa e legature (forthcoming).

For further information and application materials, please contact:
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, 60 West Walton
Street, Chicago, IL  60610-3380, visit our website at
www.newberry.org/nl/renaissance/L3rrenaissance.html

Phone: 312-255-3514
E-mail: renaissance@newberry.org
Contact: Diana Snigurowicz