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Revisiting Handel’s Chamber Cantatas
102 WoolworthA Musicology Colloquium Talk by Ellen Harris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). "Since the publication of Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas in 2001, I have continued writing about the […]
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED…Dealing with ingratitude in Early Modern Italian Culture (Leonardo, Machiavelli, Ariosto)
106 McCormick Hall 106 McCormick HallToday no one seems to consider ingratitude as a serious moral issue. If a lack of moral reciprocity remains arguably a generally frustrating experience, accusing someone of being “ungrateful” tends to […]
Orlando Furioso as Paradoxical Source of Early Italian Epic Theory
106 McCormick Hall 106 McCormick HallAlthough Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso was acknowledged to be a superior romance to the ones that preceded it, the poem was included in the disparagement of the genre and was regularly […]