Rome Photo Album

Rome Photo Album Welcoming remarks by John Bryant, Andrea Mariani, and Giorgio Mariani, as Melville scholar Dennis Berthold prepares to give his keynote address, “Exceptional Rome,” at the Centro Studi Americani, located in the seventeenth-century Palazzo Mattei di Giove Antici. Photo courtesy of Laura López Peña. Ikuno Saiki, Souad Baghli Berbar, and Jincai Yang, speakers on the “Orient and Orientalism” panel. Photo courtesy of Robert K. Wallace. c  2012 The Melville Society and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. L E V I A T H A N A J O U R N A L O F M E L V I L L E S T U D I E S 113 R O M E The artists Claire Illouz and Tony de los Reyes, who spoke, along with Elizabeth Schultz (not pictured), on the “Art of Moby-Dick” panel. Photo courtesy of Robert K. Wallace. Novelist Leslie Marmon Silko delivering her keynote address, “Indian Haters, Indian Fighters, Indian Killers: Melville’s Indictment of the ‘New Nation’ and the ‘New World.”’ Photo courtesy of Robert K. Wallace. 114 L E V I A T H A N P H O T O A L B U M Conference organizer and Melville scholar Gordon Poole delivering his keynote address “‘Chafing Against the Metric Bound’: Melville the Poet.” Photo courtesy of Robert K. Wallace. Conference attendees gather in the Piazza della Minerva for the first part of the walking tour of “Melville’s Rome,” led by Manlio Della Marca. Photo courtesy of Robert K. Wallace. A J O U R N A L O F M E L V I L L E S T U D I E S 115 R O M E Across the Tiber and on the way to the Vatican, the Melville and Rome tour reaches its next stop: Castel Sant’Angelo. Photo courtesy of Laura López Peña. On the tour, attendees reached the Colosseum by Metro. Photo courtesy of Laura López Peña. 116 L E V I A T H A N P H O T O A L B U M Graduate assistant Pilar Martı́nez Benedı́, who made it all happen. Photo courtesy of John Bryant. Conference organizer Giorgio Mariani. Photo courtesy of Mena Mitrano. A J O U R N A L O F M E L V I L L E S T U D I E S 117 R O M E Consulter of maps Dennis Berthold. Photo courtesy of Mena Mitrano. Gordon Poole and his son Federico perform traditional Neapolitan songs after lunch on the day-trip to Naples. Photo courtesy of Laura López Peña. 118 L E V I A T H A N P H O T O A L B U M Visitor to Rome Liana Bryant rests at the Capitoline Museum. Photo courtesy of Mena Mitrano. A J O U R N A L O F M E L V I L L E S T U D I E S 119 ...