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Goldoni, the Masons, and the Mysteries
31 January 2018, 5:30 pm–7:30 pm
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UCL Italian department
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Institute of Advanced StudiesGower StreetLONDONWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
A UCL Italian Research Seminar
This paper (further details to follow) presents some of Professor Leigh's recent research on Goldoni's "Le donne curiose" and on the representation of Freemasonry in eighteenth-century theatrical writing, in relation to classical Mysteries and the theme of curiosity in the ancient world.
Speaker
Prof. Matthew Leigh is a Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, Faculty of Classics, at the University of Oxford.
He has broad interests in Roman culture and tends to work on the borders of Latin literature and Roman history. He has recently published a study on the relationship between the emergence of Roman epic poetry and emergence of the Roman navy. He is also involved in a longer-term project on ancient ideas of curiosity.