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Appel à communication : " ‘Aere perennius’. The dialogue with Antiquity between the Middle Ages and the early Modernity", Pise, 8-9 novembre 2019. DATE ET LIEU DES RENCONTRES DOCTORALES: 7-8 NOVEMBRE 2019, PISE, SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIOREDATE LIMITE: 30 JUIN 2019A group of doctoral students of the first and second year of the PhD course in Literature, Art and History in Medieval and Modern Europe proposes the organisation of the third International Graduate Conference, which is reserved for PhD students and young researchers and will be held at the Scuola Normale Superiore on 7-8 November 2019. This year, the conference aims to investigate the tradition and recovery of classical and late antique authors in the Middle Ages and early Modernity in their multiple artistic and literary forms (imitatio, reformulation, exegesis, critical reflection on literary genres, etc.). To this end, we welcome proposals for papers relating to the following areas:The classics in Romance philology and literature of the 12th century 1.1) Circulation and transmission of the Latin classics in the Middle Ages.1.2) The use of the classics in the scholastic education of the first vernacular authors and in the medieval poets of the French area, trait d’union between old and new literary forms.1.3) Evolution of genres and literary forms from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.1.4) Critical reflection about Ars poetica.The classical myths between the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance 2.1) Ovid’s images.2.2) Recovery and reworking of the classics in the late antique and early medieval mythographic production, in particular in Fulgentius’ Mythologiae and in the three Mythographi Vaticani.2.3) Allegorical and moral exegesis in commentaries on Ovid’s Metamorphoses (12th-14th centuries).The classics in the Italian literature of the Middle Ages and in commentaries to Dante 3.1) The dialogue with Antiquity in Italian literature and art of the 13th-14th centuries: imitation and rewriting of classical sources;re-use of images and metaphors taken from the Antiquity.3.2) The relationship between the mythographic and allegorical tradition and the Dante’s revival of classical myths.3.3) Commenting with the classics: the use of classical sources in ancient commentaries and illustrations to Dante’s Comedy.Ancient and Islamic philosophy, vernacular literatures 4.1) Ancient philosophy and its Arabic mediation in Romance literature, between continuity and variations.4.2) The translation of philosophical texts and their relationships with vernacular literatures.4.3) The concepts of « philosopher » and « philosophy » in Romance literature.4.4) The re-elaboration of ancient material in the formation of new concepts such as interiority, artistic « creation » and geographic-mythical representations.&#160;The conference will include the participation, as keynote speakers, of four internationally renowned scholars who have dealt with the themes proposed here, and whose research interests reflect the fourfold articulation of our program:– Claudia Villa (University of Bergamo – Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), a medieval and humanist philologist specialised in the study of classical authors’ circulation in the Middle Ages and vernacular culture;– Claudia Cieri Via (Sapienza University of Rome), an art historian and scholar of iconography and iconology, whose research has focussed on the fortune of Ovid’s Metamorphoses between the 15th and 16th centuries;– Marco Petoletti (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan), who is author of numerous essays about medieval epigraphy, ancient commentaries on Dante’s Comedy, Latin literature of the 14th century, with particular reference to Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio;– Paolo Falzone (Sapienza University of Rome), who dedicated a large part of his scientific production to the intertwinement of philosophy, theology and politics in Dante’s works.Proposals (in Italian or English) accompanied by a title, an abstract (of a maximum length of 4000 characters) and a curriculum vitae et studiorum (maximum 3000 characters) must be sent in two separate files to the address aereperennius@sns.it.Each paper should be no longer than twenty minutes.Requests to participate must be sent by 30 June 2019 and will be submitted to the selection of the organising committee which will communicate the acceptance of the proposals by e-mail by 20 July 2019.The contributions will then be subjected to a rigorous peer-review process in view of the publication of the proceedings. Participation in the Conference is free. The organisation will not provide for the reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses, but it will provide information on available accommodation.Thursday 7 – Friday 8 November 2019, Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore. The organising committeeSusanna BarsottiArianna BrunoriIlaria OttriaPaola TricomiMarina Zanobi&#160;