Scholars and experts specializing in the works by Persian poet Sa’di of Shiraz (1210-1292) and Italian poet Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) known as Petrarch will meet in Tehran to share ideas on and conduct a comparative analysis of works by the two poets.
The meeting is jointly organized by Book City Institute’s Cultural Center, the Shiraz-based Center for Studies on Sa’di, the Iranian Embassy in Italy, Sapienza University of Rome and University of Bologna.
Slated for April 17-18, the meeting will be held at Book City Institute’s Cultural Center located on Ahmad Qasir Street, north of Beheshti Avenue, ISNA reported.
During the two-day event, lectures will be given by renowned scholars.
Author, literary critic and researcher Saeed Hamidian will disclose ‘Untold Words on Lyrical Poems of Sa’di.’ Master of Persian literature, renowned Iranologist, writer and translator Mir Jalaleddin Kazzazi will speak about ‘Sa’di in Challenge with (Persian poet) Sanai (1080-1131)’ and Faezeh Mardani, professor of Persian Language and Literature at School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Translation and Interpreting, University of Bologna, Italy, will have a review of a few Italian translations from Sa’di’s major prose work ‘Gulistan’ (Rose Garden), a landmark in Persian literature.
Author and expert in Shakespearian literature Shideh Ahmadzadeh will speak on ‘Nostalgia of Petrarch in Shakespeare’s Lyrical Poems. Nasrin Faqih Malek Marzban from Alzahra University of Tehran will talk about the differences between Persian and Italian literature in works with romantic and amorous themes.
Fatemeh Asgari, a faculty member of Faculty of Foreign Languages at University of Tehran, will speak on ‘Portrait and Identity of the Beloved One in Poems of Petrarch and Sa’di.’ Expert in Persian poetry Farah Niazkar from Hafez University of Shiraz will present a comparative analysis of the essential lyrical features in the works of the two literary giants.
Iman Mansoob Basiri from the Department of Italian Language and Literature, University of Tehran, will elaborate on the influence of ancient Roman literature on the works of Petrarch.
Translator and literary researcher Mitra Mazaheri will present the results of a comparative study on the elements of romantic traditions in the poems of Sa’di and Petrarch, and finally Zahra Zavvarian, Fereshteh Nobakht and Elham Fallah will disclose what they have learnt from Sa’di.
