FLORENCE AND THE AMERICANS: CALL FOR PAPERS

FLORENCE'S CITY AND BOOK CONFERENCES

THE CITY AND THE BOOK V:

FLORENCE AND THE AMERICANS

CALL FOR PAPERS. (PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS CALL AMONG FELLOW SCHOLARS)

Eighty Americans are or were buried in Florence's Swiss-owned so-called 'English' Cemetery, 1827-1877. This fifth City and Book conference will concentrate on these and on other American writers and artists present in Florence in the nineteenth century and on Anglo-Florentine writers closely associated with them. We have papers on Hiram Powers, Louisa (Adams) Kuhn and Henry Adams, James Lorimer Graham, Richard Hildreth, Margaret Fuller, Kate Field and Lilian Whiting. We seek papers on Theodore Parker, Joel Hart, Amasa Hewins, Nathaniel and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Henry James and others.

The Proceedings will be published on the Web immediately following the Saturday, 11 October 2008, City and Book V Conference. The list of American burials in Florence's Swiss-owned so-called 'English' Cemetery can be found at http://www.florin.ms/americantombs.html

We are now at 1435 signatures on the web at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/471134975,
'That the Swiss-owned, so-called 'English' Cemetery in Florence be kept open, be restored and be declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site', and with 4067 signatures in-house from our visitors, for a total of 5502 signatures. We have decided to keep them coming.

If you wish to donate to the Aureo Anello Association for the restoration of the 'English' Cemetery, particularly its American tombs, you can do so by a cheque made out to 'Aureo Anello' and posted to 'English' Cemetery, Piazzale Donatello 38, 50132 Florence, Italy; or through the Pay Pal 'Donate' button below, which can also be used for the CDs, for the hand-bound limited edition books or for the sculptures of Elizabeth and Robert's 'Clasped Hands' or tondos with their portraits (Amalia Ciardi Duprè's sculpture can also be found at http://www.florin.ms/amaliadupre.html), or some or all of these.

Sincerely,
Julia Bolton Holloway
President, Aureo Anello Association for the Library and Cemetery
Piazzale Donatello, 38
50132 FIRENZE, ITALY