Prof. Joseph Brincat on linguistic and legal pluralism in Malta

On October 22nd, within the framework of Stefania Gialdroni’s course in Legal history (Storia del diritto), we will have the honor to host Prof. Joseph (Giuseppe) Brincat (University of Malta), who will give a lecture entitled “Il diritto a Malta. La fusione di pratiche siciliane, italiane e inglesi in un contesto plurilingue”. He will then…

Joint Workshop MICOLL-HOLYLAB

What: Workshop “Digital Humanities and Mobility Studies: An ERC Perspective” Where: University of Padua, Department or Private Law and Critique of Law, Palazzo del Bo, Sala Riviste (3rd floor) When: 3 October 2024, 10:00am-5pm The first joint workshop of the two ERC CoGs MICOLL and HOLYLAB will soon take place in Padua. On October 3rd 2024 the team…

New Book by Davide Basaldella on the language of Maltese notarial documents

We are very pleased to announce that our Davide Basaldella has just published his monograph on the use of Sicilian and Italian in Malta between the 15th and the 16th centuries, based on notarial documents of the Valletta archives (Siciliano e italiano a Malta fra Quattro e Cinquecento. Edizione e commento linguistico di testi volgari…

David De Concilio and Silvia Di Paolo in Canterbury

What: 17th International Congress of Medieval Canon Law Where: University of Kent, Canterbury When: 7-13 July 2024 The 17th International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, co-sponsored by ICMAC (Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio / International Society of Medieval Canon Law) and the University of Kent, is currently taking place in Canterbury from Sunday, 7th July,…

PHEDRA Summer School, Palos de la Frontera (25-28 June, 2024)

What: PHEDRA Summer School Where: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA) – La Ràbida, Palos de la Frontera (Spain) When: 25-28 June 2024 The whole team of MICOLL (except for Davide Basaldella, who was at a conference in Lisbon in the very same moment) took part in the Summer School organized in the framework of the Project PHEDRA…

Davide Basaldella in Lisbon

What: XIII Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages. The Medieval Translator Where: School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon (Portugal) When: 17-21 June 2024 Next Monday (17 June) our Davide Basaldella will present a paper on “Translating Statutes in 14th-century Italy. A Preliminary Survey on Commercial Law Terminology”…

Stefania Gialdroni and Jake Dyble in Palermo

What: Workshop “Early-modern Commercial Documents in Foreign Jurisdictions” Where: University of Palermo When: 19-20 April 2024 Stefania Gialdroni and Jake Dyble will present two papers within the framework of this workshop organized by prof. Guido Rossi. The aim of the workshop is to analyze various kinds of commercial documentation (private documents, court decisions, notarial deeds, etc.),…

Davide Basaldella and Francesca Fusco in Warsaw

What: The contexts of Italian: language, didactics, interculturality (I contesti dell’italiano: lingua, didattica, interculturalità) Where: Uniwersytet Warszawski and Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu When: 1st Edition in Warsaw – April 18 and 19, 2024 Our two linguists, Davide Basaldella and Francesca Fusco, will soon take part in this important event with a paper entitled…

A day trip along the canals

Learning by experience! Stefania Gialdroni, Chiara Lo Giudice, David De Concilio and Jake Dyble along the waterways used by merchants from the Middle Ages until the 1960s to transport men and goods. Thanks to the director of the Museum of river navigation (Museo della navigazione fluviale), Maurizio Ulliana, yesterday we had the opportunity to navigate…

Micoll’s first time at the Accademia della Crusca!

What a great day for #Micoll ! Our PI, together with Francesca Fusco and Davide Basaldella, was for the first time at the Accademia della Crusca, one of the leading (and most ancient) institutions in the field of research on the Italian language. Its headquarters is located inside the Villa Medicea di Castello, on the beautiful…