Dr. Konrad Eisenbichler, Professor of Italian Studies, University of Toronto
The Good Life Common Lecture
Wednesday, February 11 at 5:30 pm
University Auditorium
Sponsored by HUM 2305: What is the Good Life? and cosponsored by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the lecture is free and open to the public.
Bio: Dr. Konrad Eisenbichler, Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto, has been inducted into the Royal Society of Canada for academic excellence. He has received the Medaglia al merito from the Autonomous Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and has been inducted into the Knights of St. Mark, the knightly order of the ancient Republic of Venice, in recognition of his services for Venetian culture and history. He received the Ennio Flaiano prize for his book, The Sword and the Pen: Women, Poetry and Politics in Sixteenth-Century Siena (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012). His monograph, The Boys of the Archangel Raphael: A Youth Confraternity in Florence, 1411-1785 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988) received the Howard A. Marraro Prize from the American Catholic Historical Association. Other recent publications include L’opera poetica di Virginia Martini Salvi (Siena 2012) and Renaissance Medievalisms (Toronto 2009). In his work, Professor Eisenbichler focuses on the intersection of literature, politics and religion in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy.