Michael Cook, photo by Denise Applewhite, Princeton University<

Michael Cook teaches and researches various aspects of Islamic history, and is currently writing a book about the history of the Islamic world to about  1800. He entered the field as an undergraduate at Cambridge; this led to a position at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and then to his current position at Princeton University.

Paolo Pellegrini received his Ph.D. in Philology of Italian Literature. He has been a tenured Assistant Professor in Italian philology and linguistics (SSD 10/F-3) at Università di Verona, Department of Cultures and Civilizations, licensed to the role of Full Professor in 2017. His talk will concern Dante's biography. 

"Re-reading Dante’s Vita nova" is a collaborative research project involving researchers from University College London, the University of Bristol, the University of Cambridge, the University of Leeds, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Oxford, the University of Reading, and the University of Warwick. This event will be hosted at the University of Bristol, and the discussion will take place mostly in English. Notre Dame will participate via teleconference. Breakfast provided.

Join Campus Ministry and the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study for the distinctive opportunity to hear the North American premiere of two recently rediscovered works: the first is a choral Mass setting by the renowned French organist and composer Jean Titelouze (1563-1633), which will be introduced by Jonathan Hehn, Choral Program Director and organist; the second is a set of nine medieval chants (12th and 14th centuries) sung during the rites for the sick and dying, previously referred to in the Church as the Commendation of the Soul (Commendatio animae), which will be introduced by the scholar who recently uncovered them, Elaine Stratton Hild, Spring 2018 Distinguished Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study and researcher from the Universität Würzburg, Germany.

This seminar is the third part of a series of seminars focusing on early Italian literary texts of specific historical periods and from a double perspective: one more attentive to textual-linguistic issues and led by scholars at the OVI; the other more focused on critical-historical-literary matters and led by scholars associated with and invited by Notre Dame.