ROMANCE LANGUAGES

Candelas Gala
Spanish Poetry and Painting and Sciences
Awarded $3,000
Source: University of Minnesota, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain and United States Universities

Sol Miguel-Prendes
Contemplative Practices and Literary Creation
Awarded 6-month Contemplative Practice Fellowship
Source: American Council of Learned Societies

Sol Miguel-Prendes, Associate Professor of Romance Languages, has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Contemplative Practice Fellowship. It is one of ten awarded nationally each year "to advance scholarship and to encourage innovative course research" that will "restore and renew the critical contribution that contemplative practices can make to the life of the mind." Dr. Miguel-Prendes won the single award for literature this year.

The course she is designing, "Contemplative Practices and Literary Creation," is based on research for a book and will be taught initially to advanced undergraduate Spanish students. It examines three central images-the journey, the locus amoenus, and the inner city-as they are used in religious and lay texts in Castilian, Catalan, and other European contexts. The course is primarily devoted to the Middle Ages but will incorporate texts extending into the twentieth century.

Roberta Morosini
What about the 'Franceschi romanzi'? From France to Italy and Italy to France. The Rewriting of French Models in Boccaccio's Neapolitan vernacular works: Filocolo (1336-39), Filostrato (1338), and Teseida (1339-41) and a French rewriting of the Filocolo: Le Philocope (1555) by Adrien Seuin
Awarded $40K for the period 2003-2004
Source: Harvard University Villa I Tatti Fellowship

Roberta Morosini, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages, is among 15 candidates nationally to win an I Tatti Fellowship for Italian Renaissance studies from Harvard University. She will study in Florence as a Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow. Two people are chosen for each discipline, including literature, history, and art history.

In addition to a $40K stipend and residence at the villa during the 2003/2004 academic year, Dr. Morosini will receive a $1,500 grant from the Lila Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund to lecture on her work and to submit an article to I Tatti Studies in the two years following the stay.

Dr. Morosini will investigate "What about the 'Franceschi romanzi'? From France to Italy and Italy to France. The Rewriting of French Models in Boccaccio's Neapolitan vernacular works: Filocolo (1336-39), Filostrato (1338), and Teseida (1339-41) and a French rewriting of the Filocolo: Le Philocope (1555) by Adrien Seuin." Franceschi romanzi refers to the Old French romances mentioned by one of Boccaccio's heroines, the love-struck Fiammetta in the Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta. Dr. Morosini will examine the French romances reworked by Boccaccio as well as the first French edition of the Filocolo, which Boccaccio had originally rewritten and adapted from the Old French Floire et Blancheflor.