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Renaissance Society of American Annual Meeting – Dublin 2022

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    • 15 July 2021 at 5:35 am EDT #47697

      Carlotta Paltrinieri
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      Dear Colleagues, please consider sending an abstract for the panel:\”What’s a Dilettante? Non-Professional Artists and Literati in Early Modernity (1500-1650)\”.

      Contributions to this panel will explore the phenomenon of dilettantismo between the 1500s and 1650s and consider some of the following key questions:

      Who was the dilettante? How did the dilettante come to be? What were the most suitable disciplines for a dilettante? What cultural and socio-political contexts led to the diffusion of this phenomenon? Who were the main agents of the affirmation of amateurship?

      We particularly welcome contributions on geo-political areas that have been less studied, and that will deal with one or more of the following aspects:

      • Amateurs & visual arts
      • Amateurs & liberal arts
      • Amateurs & performing arts
      • Amateurs & natural sciences
      • Women amateurs
      • The curriculum of the amateur
      • Literature and treatises on amateurship
      • The etymology and philology of the term dilettante/amateur

       

      More details here:
      https://www.rsa.org/blogpost/1935950/372235/What-s-a-Dilettante-Non-Professional-Artists-and-Literati-in-Early-Modernity-1500-1650

      This topic was also posted in: Digital Humanists, Global & Transnational Studies, Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Academies of the World.
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