University of Malta Institute of AngloItalian Studies Sixth International Conference on Britain and

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University of MaltaInstitute of
Anglo-Italian StudiesSixth International
Conference onBritain and Italy Literary and
Cultural Relationsin collaboration withThe
British CouncilandThe Italian Cultural
Institute22 23 September 2008
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Professor Peter Vassallo, Chairman of the
Institute Professor Gloria Lauri-Lucente,
Director, at the opening
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The programme included papers by Dr Stephen
Cheeke (Bristol), Rome in Romantic Writing Dr
Saverio Tomaiuolo (Cassino), Fluency and Cultural
Difference in Translating Andrea Camilleris
Fiction
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Professor Nigel Wood (Loughborough), Johnson,
Boswell and the notion of Italy Professor Susan
Oliver (Essex), Romantic Dantism Byron, Cary,
and other Visions Professor Jonathan White
(Essex) Conversing with the Dead Using Dante
heuristically for a Poetics of Cultural History
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Students in the audience
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and more students
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Professor Donatella Badin (Turin), Reflections on
Lady Morgans Italy Professor Lucia Boldrini
(Goldsmiths, London), Anna Banti and Virginia
Woolf A Dialogue across Time Professor Valeria
Tinkler Villani (Leiden), The Italianate Aspect
of the Pre-Raphaelite Journal The Germ
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During a coffee break in the corridors of the Old
University Building in Valletta which was the
venue for the conference
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Deep in conversation
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Some of the students
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Also during a coffee break in one of the imposing
corridors of the original university building
which dates back to the founding of the Collegium
Melitense in 1592
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Professor Michael ONeill (Durham), Dante and the
English Romantics Professor Nick Roe (St
Andrews), Keats on the Appian Way Professor
Alison Yarrington (Glasgow), The Duke of
Devonshires collection of Italian Art
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Sue Brown (Oxford), Joseph Severn and the British
Academy in Rome Professor Tim Webb (Bristol),
English Perceptions of the Italian Language in
the 19th century
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Professor Peter Vassallo (Malta), E.M.Forster,
John Ruskin and the pernicious charm of Italy
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Dr Simonetta Berbeglia (Arezzo),The Friendship of
Robert Browning and Enrico Nencioni Professor
Angelo Righetti (Verona), DAnnunzio as a reader
and translator of Browning Professor Gloria
Lauri- Lucente (Malta), Like flowers on distant
branches Montale and Eliot
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Professor Ivan Callus (Malta), Translating
Style Tim Parks and the Tradition of
Anglo-Italian Literary Relations