Ambrosiana
READING ROOM CLOSURE FROM SEPTEMBER 24 TO 29
Reading room closed from September 24 to 29 included
24/09/2025-29/09/2025
On 13 and 14 October, the Ambrosiana hosts the annual international conference of the Society of Friends of Port-Royal is held, organized with the support of the Faculty of Letters of the Sorbonne University, of the Center for Linguistic Studies and French Literatures (CELLF – UMR 8599), by the Center for the History of Medieval and Modern Societies (MéMo, University of Paris Nanterre), by the National Museum of Port-Royal des Champs and the Society for Seventeenth Century Studies.
The European horizons of Port-Royal seem resolutely turned towards Italy. In question, undoubtedly, the conflictual relationship that maintained with Rome both the abbey of Port-Royal and its surroundings, but also the religious and political movements of the 18th and 19th centuries who claimed Jansenism.
We could then be tempted not to consider the interactions, over the long term, of Port-Royal and Jansenism with the Peninsula only in doctrinal or, more occasionally, theological-political terms, what is more, in terms of the Roman center alone.
This conference would like to re-examine the report of Port-Royal and the Jansenist circles with Roman authority and Italian dimension of the Catholic Church, a report still largely unknown on many points, but also and above all to broaden the perspectives, by questioning the relationships of Port-Royal to Italy and of Italy to Port-Royal even in their spiritual, cultural and literary aspects. Without chronological, disciplinary or geographical limitation, it intends to shed light on the unique, complex but lasting relationship which united Italy with the abbey of Port-Royal and its relatives in the 17th century century, but also to Jansenist circles of the 18th century as well as to historians and emulators of Jansenism of the 19th and 20th centuries, both French and Italian.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 13, 2023
Welcome
da parte della Société des Amis de Port-Royal
Introduction
OLIVIER ANDURAND — CLÉMENT VAN HAMME
10h20 — De l’Italie à Port-Royal
Les origines italiennes de la réforme de Port-Royal
DANIELLA KOSTROUN
Indiana University
La langue italienne chez Claude Lancelot
NORMA ROMANELLI
CNRS — Université Paris Cité
12h — De Port-Royal en Italie (XVIIIe s.)
Traduction et réception des ouvrages de Jacqueline Pascal en Italie
GIADA SILENZI
Università delgi Studi di Udine
Fortune de Le Tourneux en Italie
ÉRIC SUIRE
Université Bordeaux Montaigne
14h30 — Le cas de la Savoie (XVIIIe s.)
Traces du jansénisme dans les États de Savoie
FULVIO ACCARDI
Le jansénisme dans le Piémont-Savoie au siècle des Lumières. Une configuration politique de la spiritualité de Port-Royal ?
ELISABETTA LURGO
Membre associé de la Faculté de Théologie Catholique de l’Université de Strasbourg (UR4377)
15h45 — Le dialogue de l’art
Un Raphaël à Port-Royal
PHILIPPE LUEZ
Musée national de Port-Royal des Champs
« Ces beautés si propres à faire naître d’excellentes idées. » Philippe de Champaigne et la peinture italienne dans les Conférences de l’Académie royale
SADRINE LELY
SATURDAY OCTOBER 14, 2023
10h10 — L’art du dialogue
Bérulle et ses réseaux en Italie à la lumière de sa correspondance
BLANDINE DELAHAYE
L’abbé Clément et son réseau italien
EMMANUEL LACAM
11h30 — Antiromanisme et antijansénisme
Autour du cardinal Neri Corsini
ALBANE PIALOUX
Sorbonne Université
Un foyer italien de Port-Royal aujourd’hui : le CESPES
MARIA VITA ROMEO CESPES
Università di Catania
14h30 — Vies et survies italiennes de Port-Royal (XIXe s.)
Grégoire et Degola. De cœur et d’esprit
VALÉRIE GUITTIENNE- MÜRGER
Bibliothèque de la Société de Port-Royal
Les derniers sursauts du jansénisme à Naples, entre la République napolitaine et la Restauration
ANTONIO SALVATORE ROMANO
Pontificia Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Meridionale
Les raisons du cœur chez Manzoni lecteur de Pascal
ELENA VALENTINA MAIOLINI
Università dell’Insubria — ELCI, Sorbonne Université
Conclusion
FRANCESCO DI DONATO
Università delgi Studi di Napoli Federico II
Reading room closed from September 24 to 29 included
From 18.00 to 19.30 (last admission) entrance to the Art Gallery and Crypt at the special price of €3.00
