In conjunction with the evening’s Music in the Pavilion concert, this symposium will cover the recently-acquired manuscript of Francesco Petrarca’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta andTriumphi.
Registration is required for guests outside of the Penn community and encouraged for all participants.
This event has already occurred
Hosted by: Kislak Center
An afternoon symposium, in conjunction with that evening’s Music in the Pavilion concert, Petrarch in Renaissance Music, will highlight Ms. Codex 2196, the recently-acquired manuscript of Francesco Petrarca’s (Petrarch's) Rerum vulgarium fragmenta — often referred to as the songbook par excellence, il canzoniere — and Triumphi.
Speakers will examine the manuscript’s production in Florence during the third quarter of the fifteenth century, unveiling significant aspects of its scribe’s and illuminator’s work. The symposium will include presentations on new developments in the PetrArchive, a rich-text digital edition of the partially autograph manuscripts of Petrarca’s canzoniere, and on the Marenzio Online Digital Edition (MODE), a critical edition of the music of Luca Marenzio (ca. 1553-1599).
This symposium is co-sponsored by the Center for Italian Studies.
Presentation of the Ms. Codex 2196, the recently acquired manuscript of Petrarch’s works, and of the database PetrArchive.
Speakers: Wayne Storey (Indiana University), Nicholas Herman (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies), Francesco Marco Aresu (University of Pennsylvania)
Presentation of the beta version of MODE, the online digital edition of Luca Marenzio’s secular music.
Speakers: Mauro Calcagno (University of Pennsylvania), Giuseppe Gerbino (Columbia University), Lucia Marchi (University of Trento)
Petrarch in Renaissance Music, Performed by Piffaro, The Renaissance Band and Penn Collegium Musicum directed by Meg Bragle.
Concert is free and open to the public. Find more details and register here.
Pre-concert talk begins at at 6:15 pm.
Image credit: Illuminated initial letter “V” from Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere and Trionfi (Florence, c1470s) (Ms. Codex 2196)