Sponsored by the Department of English,
The Department of Italian Studies,
The Office for History of Science and Technology,
And the Townsend Center for the Humanities
Gilberto Sacerdoti
Università di Roma III
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"New Heaven, New Earth": Antony and Cleopatra and Bruno's New Cosmology
Gilberto Sacerdoti is Professor of English Literature in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Rome Tre and the author of two major studies ( Nuovo cielo, nuova terra. La rivelazione copernicana di "Antonio e Cleopatra / New Heaven, New Earth: The Copernican Revelation of Antony and Cleopatra and Sacrificio e sovranitá. Teologia e politica nell'Europa di Shakespeare e Bruno / Sacrifice and Sovereignty: Theology and Politics in the Europe of Shakespeare and Bruno), as well as numerous essays on the intersection of Italian and English scientific, political, and religious thought in the early modern period. The twin figures of Giordano Bruno and Shakespeare stand at the center of his work, but he has also written extensively on figures as diverse as Sir Walter Ralegh, Pico della Mirandola, Maimonides, and Jean Bodin. In addition, Professor Sacerdoti is a prize-winning poet and a prolific translator of works by Shakespeare, Auden, Henry James, Seamus Heaney, and Stevie Smith.
The lecture will be followed by a reception in the English Department Lounge (330 Wheeler). On Friday, October 27, graduate students are invited to meet with Professor Sacerdoti from 10:30-12 in 6331 Dwinelle (enter Dwinelle from the north side and take the elevator to floor F).
5:00PM
Thursday, October 26
Maud Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
UC Berkeley
Office for History of Science and Technology, 543 Stephens Hall #2350
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2350
tel: (510) 642-4581, e-mail: ohst@berkeley.edu
