NEWSLETTER
July
2024
EVENING
LECTURES
Petrarch,
His Fragments, and the Mirror of Nature
ANDREW
FRISARDI
Monday
1 July
In
the chair
Hilary Davies
Petrarch’s
masterpiece the
Canzoniere is explicitly a fragmentary narrative
of Christian conversion: from young love poet to mature man of faith,
repentant for the ‘youthful error’ of his overpowering, unrequited
love for a woman named Laura and the poetry inspired by her. And yet
the many poems about Petrarch’s love for Laura create a portrait
of beauty, erotic obsession, self-reflection, and the lyrical imagination
that has few rivals in the Western tradition. For Petrarch, the image
of Laura is associated with solitude, nature,
anima-soul, and
poetry, drawing him into what he calls the ‘labyrinth’ of
passion and memory. This lecture will discuss these topics, including
a brief introduction to Petrarch himself and to the
Canzoniere,
which he calls
Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, or fragments of things
in vernacular Italian.
ANDREW FRISARDI has authored a number of books including annotated translations
of Dante’s
Vita nova (Northwestern University Press, 2012)
and
Convivio (Cambridge University Press, 2018); and Love’s
Scribe: Reading Dante in the Book of Creation
(Angelico Press, 2020).
He has recently written an introduction to Petrarch for a new edition
of the complete
Canzoniere, translated into English by A. M.
Juster (W. W. Norton, forthcoming in 2025). He is a Fellow of the Temenos
Academy.
Venue
& Timing
St George the Martyr, 44 Queen Square
London, WC1N 3AH
Nearest Underground – Holborn
Doors open 6.10pm, Lecture begins 6.30pm
Admission
£10 or £5 Members of the Temenos Academy/Concession
FREE for full time students with ID card
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LANGUAGE
AND CIVILISATION STUDY DAY
Saturday
20th July
Civilisation
is shaped by different expressions of language, ranging from religious
revelation, poetic vision, philosophic speculation, political discourse
and the various arts and sciences. Each of these sees the world in its
own distinctive way and so bears particular kinds of witness to reality,
while together they express how civilisation understands itself, embodied
in its history and traditions. But language also shapes how we see the
world and has a power of its own. Just as we relate to the world, so
we relate to language. According to the ancient poets and philosophers,
there is a moral duty to guard language from abuses, especially through
rhetoric. Speech therefore makes man a moral being and so the use of
language always bears a moral responsibility. The four talks presented
on this Study Day offer reflections on how language situates us in the
world.
Hilary
Davies
– W.S. Graham and Dylan Thomas: How Language Constructs
the World
Dr Joseph Milne – The Bond of Speech: How Discourse Founds
Community
Esmé Partridge– The Search for Universal Language:
From Babel to ChatGPT
Dr Duane Williams – Homelessness and the House of Being:
An Essay on Destitution and Dwelling in Language
Venue
& Timing
Rudolf Steiner House
London, NW1 6XT
Nearest Underground – Baker Street
Doors open 9.30am for 10am
10am-4pm
Admission
£40 or £30 Members of the Temenos Academy/Full-time students
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Advance Bookings only – limited to a maximum of 50 participants.
Refreshments will be provided; lunch may be obtained from the Rudolf
Steiner House Café.
For
further details please visit the
study
day webpage
.
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