Knights of ink and flesh in the Renaissance

• Thursday 21 March 2024
• Florence
• University of Florence

Knights of ink and flesh in the Renaissance 

Chairs Irene Gambacorti

Luca Degl’Innocenti, Ideal, unfair, beastly, judicial, and (anti)patriarchal duels: from Andrea da Barberino to Ariosto

Giovanni Fiazza, Insult by words and injury by deeds: The duel between poetry and chivalric practice

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.