Firenze, 30-31 ottobre 2019
Istituto degli Innocenti di Firenze
Villa medicea di Castello
As part of the celebrations for the centenary of Leonardo’s death, on the occasion of the twelfth edition of La Piazza delle Lingue. Italian language, ingenuity and engineers of the Accademia della Crusca, Professor Gian Michele Calvi will speak on October 31st, at the two days dedicated to the genius of Leonardo with the report Languages and ingenuity in earthquakes and catastrophes (Engineers in class).
In the centenary year of Leonardo’s death (1519-2019), the Piazza delle lingue, a traditional and important event of the Accademia della Crusca, now in its twelfth edition, proposes the theme Italian language, and engineers, and hosts a conference dedicated to the genius of Vinci, entitled: Leonardo. The infinite writing.
This will be an opportunity to take stock of the language of Leonardo and his followers, the tools that make it possible to study it today, and together to reflect on the evolution of Italian in the strategic field of engineering and scientific communication, and the very role of the engineer in contemporary society. In the passage from the past to the present, we will be able to appreciate Leonardo’s extraordinary ability not only to observe and experience phenomena, but also to name them, building a repertoire of words and syntactic and textual structures adapted to the discoveries, and built according to a very modern 'reticular' process.
The conference will be accompanied by events and initiatives of various kinds: the show of the Oranona Lode dell'acqua company (and other digressions) (readings and theater with Enzo Fileno Carabba); an afternoon of music for violin and cello performed by maestro Massimo Coco and maestro Giovanni Ricciardi; an exhibition of texts and scientific instruments that will be set up in the Academy.
The Piazza delle Lingue will take place on 30 and 31 October 2019, in the evocative locations of the Istituto degli Innocenti in Florence (on 30 October) and in the Villa di Castello.
The event, under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic, is sponsored by the City of Florence, the Metropolitan City of Florence, the City of Vinci, the Tuscany Region, and takes place in collaboration with the Istituto degli Innocenti and the Museo Galileo in Florence, and with the support of Unicoop Firenze.
PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER 2019 hours 10 - 17.30
Florence
Istituto degli Innocenti > Poccetti Room
Institutional greetings:
Doctor Maria Grazia Giuffrida
President of the Institute of the Innocents
prof. Claudio Marazzini
President of the Accademia della Crusca
MORNING SESSION
Chair and introduces Carlo Vecce
Paola Manni: Exploring infinite writing: from the lexical universe to the phonological microsystem
Barbara Fanini: Imagining the flight, from «scientia machinale» to the word
Presiding Nicoletta Maraschio
Marco Biffi: The words of hydraulics in Leonardo
Margherita Quaglino: Leonardo and the terms
AFTERNOON SESSION
Chaired by Rita Librandi
Rosa Piro: Still on galenism in the anatomical sheets of Leonardo da Vinci
Francesco Paolo Di Teodoro: «Penelli» and other words
Andrea Felici: Leonardo between syntax and textuality. A new perspective of investigation
Leonardo da Vinci, Praise of water (and other digressions)
readings and dialogue by the Oranona Theatre,
with Enzo Fileno Carabba (16.45-17.30).
THURSDAY 31 OCTOBER 2019
hours 10 - 16
Florence
Accademia della Crusca > Conference room
MORNING SESSION
Chaired by Paola Manni
Monica Taddei: E-leo: digital archive of the history of
technique and science of the Leonardo Library: tools, solutions and perspectives for the consultation, study and enhancement of Leonardo’s work
Antonio Becchi: Unaware of Leonardo: sights, oversights, stumbling blocks
Gian Michele Calvi: Languages and ingenuity in earthquakes and catastrophes (Engineers in class)
AFTERNOON SESSION
The Chairman is Claudio Marazzini
Alberto Tesi: The engineer in contemporary society
Stefano Crespi Reghizzi: The taste of Italian flavors
n globalized scientific communication
The engineering of music
Massimo Coco (Luigi Cherubini Conservatory
Florence), M. Giovanni Ricciardi (Hochschule of Mannheim),
violin and cello duo: music by J.S. Bach, Z. Kodály, and
G.F. Haendel-J. Halvorsen (15.00-15.50)
Conclusion of work
Program