Renaissance Conference

The New England Conference on Renaissance Studies, under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, will hold its annual meeting at Dartmouth College during the week-end of April 29 and 30. The editors of Renaissance News, published by the College Library, will serve as local committee.

The program will include exhibits of Renaissance books and prints from the College Collections at Baker Library and displays of costume designs in the Carpenter Art Gallery. These exhibits will be arranged by Professor Ray Nash. The Dartmouth Players, under the direction of Henry B. Williams, will offer a production of a Renaissance Commedia dell'arte and Suzanne Bloch, well-known virtuoso on the lute, will present a recital of Sixteenth Century music. John Coolidge, the new director of the Fogg Museum at Harvard, will speak on Italian architecture. Josephine Waters Bennett, author of The Evolution of the Faerie Queene, will speak on the causes of the English Renaissance in a paper which promises to shed new light on the role of Mandeville's Travels. Isabel Pope, whose studies of Spanish music have been published by the Medieval Academy of America and the Collegio del Mexico, will speak on Spanish secular vocal music. Miss Pope's paper will be illustrated with songs rendered by a small a cappella chorus under the direction of Prof. Frederick W. Sternfeld of the Dartmouth music department.

Arrangements for the accommodation and entertainment of academic visitors from all parts of New England will be in charge of Prof. Vernon Hall Jr. of the comparative literature department. The Hanover Inn will serve as general headquarters. A Saturday luncheon has been planned at the Dartmouth Outing Club.