Honor and Dishonor: The Duel Between History, Codes, Literature, Words, and Images (19th-20th Centuries). International Workshop

• Da Thursday 13 March 2025 a Friday 14 March 2025
• Siena

Seminar Schedule

March 13

First Session  10:00 A.M.  – Aula 1 piazza C. Rosselli 27/28, Siena

Chairs Mauro Moretti (Università per Stranieri di Siena)

Welcome Remarks

Matthew D’Auria (University of East Anglia), The Duel in France between the Ancien Régime, the Revolution, and the Restoration

Jérôme Grévy (Université de Poitiers), From the Combat for Honor to Ideological Confrontation: The Political Duel in France (1828–1967) 

Christian Satto (Università per Stranieri di Siena), Guarding the Honor of the New Italy: Chivalric Codes after Unification

Eleonora Angella (Università per Stranieri di Siena), Duel and Honor in Early Italian Feminism (1865–1925)

Second Session, 15:30 P.M. – Aula 5c Via dei Pispini 1, Siena

Chairs David Salomoni (Università per Stranieri di Siena)

Laura Diafani (Università di Cassino), To challenge Pisacane to a duel (1851). From Written Word to Duel

Gabriele Paolini (Università di Firenze), A Fever of Challenges: The Political Duel in Post-WWI Italy

Luca Mazzei (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”), Honor Regained: The Libyan War and Its Surroundings

Paola Carlucci (Università per Stranieri di Siena), On Honor. A Dialogue Between Generations: Sidney Sonnino and Ugo Francesetti di Malgrà

March 14

Third Sessions, ore 9.30 – Aula 5c Via dei Pispini 1, Siena 

Chairs : Pietro Cataldi (Università per Stranieri di Siena)

Carmine Pinto (Università di Salerno), Challenges of Honor: From the Wars of the South to the Expedition of the Thousand

Irene Gambacorti (Università di Firenze), Luigi Albertini’s Duel in the Account of Giuseppe Giacosappe Giacosa

Raffaella Setti (Università di Firenze) e Stefano Miani (Università di Firenze), Criminal Honor: Pathways Between the Penal Code and Organized Crime

Alice Petrocchi (Università di Firenze), «Ammazzarsi è nulla, ma lo si faccia con garbo». Honor and the Duel in the Works of Emilio De Marchi

Alfonso Venturini (Università di Firenze), The Model Fascist Does Not Duel: The Sense of Honor of the Fascist "New Man" in Cinema of the Ventennio

Scientific Committee: Eleonora Angella, Irene Gambacorti, Gabriele Paolini, David Salomoni, Christian Satto

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.