Renato Poggioli Symposium

[Roberto Ludovico]

Renato Poggioli (1907-1963)

An International Symposium
Co-hosted by
UMass Amherst, Brown University and Harvard University
October 25-26-27, 2007

 
The year 2007 marks the centennial of the birth of Renato Poggioli, a world-renowned 
scholar in Slavic Studies, Comparative Literature and Italian Studies. Born in Florence, 
Italy, and trained as a slavicist at his hometown university, Poggioli left fascist Italy in 
1938 to teach Italian at Smith College in Northampton, MA. A militant anti-fascist, 
Poggioli co-founded, while in Northampton, the Mazzini Society (perhaps the most active 
anti-fascist organization outside of Italy) with, among others, Michele Cantarella and 
Gaetano Salvemini. He eventually became a Professor of Italian at Brown University and 
then a Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
As a prolific translator and as an influential literary critic and theorist, Poggioli became a 
very well known figure in US literary circles and contributed largely to the diffusion of 
American and Slavic literatures in Italy, as well as to the diffusion of Italian and Slavic 
literatures in the US.
 
The symposium is open to the public and no registration is required. For more information 
and for the complete program, please visit
 
http://www.umass.edu/italian/poggioli_symposium/
and
http://www.umass.edu/italian/poggioli_symposium/poster.pdf
 
Sincerely,
 
Roberto Ludovico

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