Program

Monday, April 7

9 a.m.University of Pavia, Aula Foscolo
Institutional greetings

9.30 a.m.
Mario Rizzo (University of Pavia)
Introduction

First session: The military and geopolitical context (chaired by Mario Rizzo)

Davide Maffi (University of Pavia)
The Italian Wars: tactical-technological transformations and geopolitical-strategic
changes 1494-1529

10.30-11 a.m. Coffee break

Thomas Maissen (Universität Heidelberg)
Triomphe et tragédie des lansquenets: le regard allemand sur les champs
de bataille italiens, 1517-1527

Michele M. Rabà (CNR-ISEM)
‘Imperial’ and ‘Sforzeschi’ in the Italian Wars (1499-1529).
The Lombard nobles and the conflict for hegemony in Europe

12 a.m. Debate

2.30 p.m.
University of Pavia, Aula Foscolo
Second session: The battle and its narration in a comparative
historical framework (chaired by Florence Alazard)

Massimo Rospocher (Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento)
Pavia 1525: communication, information and narration

Luigi Casali and Marco Galandra (Independent Researchers)
The Battle Between Myth and History: A Critical

Analysis Eduardo De Mesa Gallego (Universidad CEU San Pablo de Madrid)
The Battle of Pavía a Través de las crónicas españolas

4-4.30 p.m. Coffee break

Gabor Agoston (Georgetown University)
Pavia, Mohács, and the Ottoman-Habsburg imperial rivalry

Robert Frost (University of Aberdeen)
The battle of Orsha (1514) and the problem of the divergence of the military
development of Eastern and Western Europe in the first half of the sixteenth century

5.30 p.m. Debate

Tuesday, April 8

9 a.m.
Collegio Borromeo*, Sala Bianca
Third session: The strategic diplomatic implications of the battle (chaired by Jean-Marie Le Gall)

Arturo Pacini (University of Pisa)
“Vuestra magestat puede agora poner ley y usar de su preheminencia imperial en
toda la Christiandad”: the battle of Pavia and the strategic Milan-Genoa

Marco Pellegrini (University of Bergamo)
The anguish of Clement VII. Papacy, Italy and Europe before and after the battle of Pavia

André Holenstein (Universität Bern)
La Couronne de France et le Corps helvétique. Enjeux et risques d’une alliance
dans les années 1520

10.30-11 a.m. Coffee break

Christine Shaw (formerly University of Oxford)
“La chose que plus il désire est de parler à vous”: Francis I as the captive of Charles V

John Gagné (University of Sydney)
Living trophies: contextualizing captivity at Pavia

12 a.m. Debate

3 p.m.
Collegio Santa Caterina*, Sala in Villa Necchi
Fourth session: The conflict on the territory and its literary reflections (chaired by Paolo Pintacuda)

Catherine Fletcher (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Guns and gunpowder at the Battle of Pavia

Julien Guinand (Université Catholique de Lyon)
Vivre un long siège : quotidien et organisations du campement français devant Pavie

Matteo Di Tullio and Mario Rizzo (University of Pavia)
Between big and small history. The impact of the siege and battle of Pavia on the
city and its territory

h. 16.30-17 Coffee break

Hélène Miesse (Université de Liège)
Francesco Guicciardini et la France : l’après-Pavie dans le ‘carteggio’

Mariangela Miotti (University of Perugia)
Francesco I king and poet

6 p.m. Debate

*This session is recognized by the IUSS School as an extra-curricular training activity of the Ordinary Courses

Wednesday, April 9

9 a.m.
Collegio Cairoli, Aula Magna
Fifth session: The battle in literature (Chaired by Fabio Gasti)

Manfred Beller, Alessandro Bonvini, Lorenzo Iuliano, Andrea Pizzotti, Stefano Rocchi,
Elisa Romano, Daniele Xhani (University of Pavia)
An unpublished sixteenth-century poem on the Battle of Pavia (Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Guelf. 22.2 Aug. 4o)

Andrea Baldissera (University of Eastern Piedmont)
Witnesses worthy of faith: towards a critical edition of the “Historia de la guerra de
Lombardía, batalla de Pavía y prisión del rey Francisco de Francia” by Juan de Oznaya

Paolo Pintacuda (University of Pavia)
From the chronicle to the stage through invention: notes to the comedy of “Cerco de
Pavía y prisión del rey de Francia” by Francisco Agustín de Tárrega

10.30-11 a.m. Coffee break

Simone Albonico (Université de Lausanne)
The battle between history and poetry

Amelia Juri (Université de Lausanne)
Historiographers and poets: new witnesses and new texts on the battle of Pavia

12 a.m. Debate

3 p.m.
Collegio Ghislieri, Aula Goldoniana
Sixth session: The battle in art (chaired by Luigi Carlo Schiavi)

Cecilia Paredes (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Le portrait d’une démesure. La bataille de Pavie dans les tapisseries de Charles Quint

Pier Luigi Mulas (University of Pavia)
For artistic production in Pavia between 1500 and 1525: painting, miniature, engraving

Laura Aldovini (Civic Museums of Pavia)
The Battle of Pavia in prints. Techniques and context

h. 16.30-17 Coffee break

5-6 p.m. Debate

6 p.m. Florence Alazard (Université de Tours; Centre d’études supérieures de la
Renaissance) and Jean-Marie Le Gall (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Conclusions

Scientific committee:
Florence Alazard (Université de Tours; Centre d’études supérieures de la
Renaissance); Jean-Marie Le Gall (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne);
Davide Maffi (University of Pavia); Pier Luigi Mulas (University of Pavia);
Paolo Pintacuda (University of Pavia); Mario Rizzo (University of Pavia)

N.B. The speakers will present in their native language. No simultaneous translation service is provided