Friday, November 20, 2015 | UCLA Royce Hall Room 314

1:30 Registration

2:00 Welcoming Remarks

Massimo Ciavolella (Italian, UCLA), CMRS Director

Diane Ghirardo (School of Architecture, University of Southern California)

SESSION I

Heather Sottong (Italian, UCLA), Chair

2:15 "Odd Couples and Incongruous Fortifications: Dynastic Marriages and their Representations in Early Modern Italian Castles"

Guendalina Ajello Mahler (CMRS Associate, UCLA)

3:15 "‘No one would dare.’ Plots, Deceits and Craving for Power: Henry of Guise and Henry III at the Château of Blois"

Sara Taglialagamba (Independent Scholar, Pisa)

4:15 "Mysterious and Literary Murders (and Suicides) in Medieval Castles"

Antonella Tropeano (University for Foreigners, Perugia)

Saturday, November 21, 2015 | UCLA Royce Hall Room 314

8:30 Coffee, fruit, pastries

SESSION II |

Brittany Asaro (Italian, California Lutheran University), Chair

9:00 "Secrets in Castles"

Giuseppe Mazzotta+ (Italian, Yale University)

10:00 "Arden of Faversham and the Locality of Love and Murder"

Allison Collins (Comparative Literature, UCLA)

11:00 "Lovers and Demons"

Diane Ghirardo (School of Architecture, University of Southern California)

12:00 "Gesualdo da Venosa: A Melancholic Murderer"

Remo Bodei (University of Pisa)

12:45 Lunch Break

SESSION III

Christiana Purdy Moudarres (Italian, Yale), Chair

2:00 "The Crime Scene: Who, When, Where, Why? (and How). Or: The Francesca Case"

Roberto Fedi (Italian and Comparative Cultures, University for Foreigners, Perugia)

3:00 "Ten Castles for One Kiss. The Story of Francesca da Rimini: Between Poetry and Fantasy"

Ferrucio Farina (Centro Internazionale di Studi Francesca da Rimini)

4:00 "Leigh Hunt’s The Story of Rimini (1816): Paolo and Francesca in Regency England"

Deirdre O’Grady (Languages and Literatures, University College Dublin)

4:45 Concluding Remarks

Funding for this program has been provided by members of the UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Council and the Centro Internazionale di Studi Francesca da Rimini.