Presentations

1: Textual Migrations and the Animal-Human Dialectic in Giovan Battista Andreini’s La Centaura

Monica Streifer, Bucknell U

2: Prehuman, Human, and Posthuman in Giambattista Vico

Massimo Lollini, U of Oregon

3: On Blood and Happiness: Ruysch’s Mummies in Leopardi’s Operette morali

Clorinda Donato, California State U, Long Beach

4: ‘Un continuo cozzo di voci discordi’: Writing the Human in Proto-modernist Italy

Bradford A. Masoni, independent scholar

Presider

Enrico Vettore, California State U, Long Beach