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The Culture of Enlightenment and Reform
in Eighteenth-Century Italy

January 23–24, 2004 – at the Clark Library


Friday, January 23 ______________________________

2:00 p.m. — Session 1   Chaired by Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA

Anna Maria Rao, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Enlightenment and Reform: An Overview of Culture and Politics in Enlightenment Italy

Giuseppe Ricuperati, Università degli Studi di Torino
An Intellectual Legacy of Franco Venturi: The Question of the Boundary between Church and State


Anthony Pagden, UCLA
Commentary


4:30 p.m. – Reception

Saturday, January 24__________________________

9:30 a.m. – Coffee
10:00 a.m.— Session 2
 • Chaired by Massimo Ciavolella, UCLA 

Renato Pasta, Università degli Studi di Firenze
The History of the Book and Publishing in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Barbara Ann Naddeo, Stanford University
Cultural Capitals and Cosmopolitanism

John A. Marino, University of California, San Diego
Commentary

12:30 p.m. – Lunch
1:30 p.m. — Session 3  
•  Chaired by Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Carlo Capra, Università degli Studi di Milano
The Reform Movement in Habsburg Italy

R. Burr Litchfield, Brown University
Franco Venturi’s “Crisis” of the Old Regime

John A. Davis, University of Connecticut
Commentary


4:30 p.m. — Round Table: Comments and Conclusions


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