Duels and Honor in the Eighteenth Century: Theories and Representations

• Da Saturday 11 April 2026 a Thursday 11 April 2024
• 15:00
• Florence
• University of Florence

Duels and Honor in the Eighteenth Century: Theories and Representations 

Charis Irene Gambacorti

Corrado Viola, The Denied Duel: Treatise Writers from Paradisi to Beccaria

Salvatore Ritrovato, For Glory or for Honor? The Duel from Don Juan to Casanova

Alice Petrocchi, “Coss’è sta spada?”: Patterns of Dueling in the Comedies of Carlo Goldoni

The event is part of the seminar series The Duelists. Joseph Conrad, Ridley Scott, and the Art of the Sword   organized as part of the PRIN 2022 project A Questions of Honor: Imagery, Representations, and Realities of Dueling in Italian Culture from the Risorgimento to Fascism