As part of the exhibition Libri: six centuries of Italian books from the Baillieu Library’s Special Collections a symposium will be held at the Baillieu Library on the 24th July.

Date: 1-5pm, 24th July 2013

Venue: Leigh Scott Gallery, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne

Website http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/exhibitions/

Program

1.00pm    Introduction 1.00 - 1.15

1.15pm    Andrea Rizzi - Language of love and love for language: the enterprise of Poliphilo’s dream   

2.00pm    Jaynie Anderson - An Erotic Antiquarian Romance: the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili  (Venice, 1499)   

3.00pm  Antonino Nielfi - Futurism’s Parole in libertà!: telling, assembling and representing

4.00pm  My experiences: Italians in Australia, short talks
Angela Cavalieri, artist 4.00
Gianni Formica, manager, Brunetti 4:15
TBA 4.30

4.45pm Summary and thank you

About the Exhibition

This exhibition includes books by or about Italians and Italy throughout time, highlighting the University Library Special Collections exciting new purchase of Aldus Manutius’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, printed in Venice in 1499. It is an important early printed work containing 170 exquisite woodcuts. A fourteenth century musical manuscript will be shown and books focusing on important figures or movements, such as Machiavelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Vasari, Palladio and futurism will be included, up to modern day books by Italians now living in Australia.