Held at the University of Warwick, Coventry, England. The overall theme of this year’s workshops was “Reading Publics in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Renaissance Europe.”
This workshop explored, within a comparative European perspective, the realm of book consumption and its broader implications for both individual readers and networks of readers. Papers delivered at the workshop considered the writings and audience of figures who moved either between Italy and France and/or Italy and England because of their religious commitments, or indeed of texts that moved between these countries.
Session 1
Books in the Circle of Reginald Pole
Diavoli incarnati Meet The Antichrist: Cardinal Pole and His Friends Reading Machiavelli (and Himself)
Thomas Mayer, Augustana College
“The night is passed, the day is at hand”: A Sermon Preached by Marcantonio de Dominis in Italian before King James I in 1617
Michael Wyatt, Stanford University
Session 2
Protestant Books, Catholic Readers (and Vice-Versa): Clandestine Reading and Confessional Faultlines in and around the “Bibliotheca Thuana”
Ingrid De Smet, Warwick University
Labirinti della mente : la biblioteca perduta di Ludovic Demoulin de Rochefort tra Torino e Basilea
Rosanna Gorris Camos, University of Verona
Roundtable discussion
Paul Gehl, Newberry Library
Abigail Brundin, University of Cambridge
Chiara Franceschini, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Learn more about the Warwick-Newberry Collaborative Programs, and see the University of Warwick’s web page on Reading Publics.