Speaking: Venice: L'Italia di Shakespeare (12 February); Gaspara Stampa e Lady Mary Wroth, 15 February 2000

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Series[UMA-SRE-20170009] SPEAKINGAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2017000900271Scope and ContentContains: Invitation, correspondence and schedule on Greer giving two lectures in Venice, which may have been part of a Faculty exchange with the University of Warwick. Greer agreed to give two lectures in Italian in exchange for her business class fare to Venice, 11/2/2000, and return 16/2/2000. Lectures were titled: 'L'Italia di Shakespeare', 12/2/2000, given for the opening lecture of the academic year at the Ateneo Veneto, and 'Gaspara Stampa and Lady Mary Wroth', 15/2/2000, given at Ca Foscari di Venezia for the Dipartimento di studi linguistici e letterari europei e post-coloniali. Includes laser print of typescript of lectures (in Italian): one page numbered by hand 1 to 24, some annotations, begins: "Non si sa si Shakespeare sia mai stato in Italia..." (Shakespeare lecture); one page numbered by hand, 1 to 14, begins, "Perche scrivere poesia?" (Gaspara Stampa and Mary Wroth lecture, 2 copies, second copy is not page numbered); 14 photocopied pages containing transcriptions of Gaspara Stampa, Rime, 1554, Sonetto 51 and Lady Mary Wroth, 'Pamphilia to Amphilanthus', Sonnet 7 (handouts?); photocopied reference material (book extracts); nine pages of handwritten notes on square lined paper; travel arrangements and reimbursements, photocopies of press clippings (in Italian) reporting on Greer speaking at Ateneo Veneto, the first woman in its 188 year history to give the inaugural lecture. Correspondents: Germaine Greer; Carol Horne (for Germaine Greer); Michael Bell, University of Warwick; Anna Scrittori, University Ca Foscari di Venezia; Laura Tosi, University Ca Foscari di Venezia; Giannantonio Paladini, Director, Ateneo Veneto; Peter Davidson, University of Warwick; Andrew Blair, Travel for the Arts; Vita Fortunati, Universita degli Studi di Bologna. Subjects: Lectures and lecturing; Italy; William Shakespeare; Women poetsAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2017.0009 Unit 0009

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CreatorGreer, GermaineRoleProvenance

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Date21 October 1999-14 September 2000

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Previous System ID2017.0009.00271

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Speaking: Venice: L'Italia di Shakespeare (12 February); Gaspara Stampa e Lady Mary Wroth, 15 February 2000