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“The travelling Genius”, Alessio Marziali Peretti – Find the author: medieval poetry and attribution.

The series of encounters entitled “The travelling Genius: Italians Art, humanities, science … in the world“, is a space for discussion and cultural dialogue that the Italian Cultural Institute has developed especially for young Italians in world. Italians who, beyond any orientation, are the bearers of knowledge accumulated in Italy and diffuse the following, even without their knowledge, a provision or a vocation of ancient origin: the generous exchange of culture, comforted by a keen sense of human comprehension.

March 6, 2018, 6pm Free Admission
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montreal
1200 Av. du Dr Penfield
Conference in Italian

During 12th and 13th centuries, Troubadour love poetry radiates from Southern France to all over Europe, producing similar poetic movements: Trouvères in Northern France, Minnesanger in Germany, Sicilian poetry and, later on, Stilnovo in Italy. This migration of texts, poets and ideas brings with it new ways of reception of the Troubadour poetry. Poems are fixed in the manuscript chansonniers in the form of poetic biographies, where the history of the fictional “I” and of the real author becomes a single narration halfway between reality and fiction. From this moment on, the question of poem attribution to his author becomes an issue: every act of copy leads to a deterioration of the original text, which is contaminated by errors and intentional modifications. Furthermore, we often find the name of the author lost or changed. How can we reconstruct the real identity of the author? Which technologies can help us to do that today? How can these technologies be used beyond philology and literary critic?

Alessio Marziali Peretti is a PhD candidate at Université de Montréal, where he is studying the spread of Old French literature and historiography in Italy in the 13th century. He obtained his master of arts at La Sapienza University in Rome, with a thesis on intertextuality and attributionism in troubadour lyric.

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