The Philadelphia MLA

Lectura Boccaccii, Day Ten   (Friday, 5 Jan. 2024, 3:30-4:45, in Marriott 414)

Chair: Kristina Marie Olson (George Mason U)
"Decameron X.1". Daniel Armenti (C of the Holy Cross)
"Decameron X.5". Massimo Riva (Brown U)

The Chicago RSA

I. Boccaccio at the Crusades

Organizers: Nicola Esposito, Valentina Rovere
Chair: Chiara Sbordoni (U of Notre Dame, Rome Global Gateway)

"Mediterranean Durations by Boccaccio's Decameron: Trade, Communication and Information Flows in Cilician Armenia"
Zohrab Gevorgyan (U of Armenia)

"Narrating the Holy Land: Echoes of the Crusades in the Decameron"
Nicola Esposito (U of Notre Dame)

"Translating and Visualizing the Crusades: from Boccaccio to 15^th-Century France"
Valentina Rovere (U Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

"An Island in the Stream: Boccaccio's Cyprus and Mobility in the Decameron's Mediterranean" Alejandro Cuadrado (Yale U)

II. Boccaccian Reflections in History and Art

Chair: Alison Cornish (New York U)

"Boccaccio 125 Years Later: Examining a Late 15^th-Century Portrait Medal"
John Adrian (U of Virginia at Wise)

"Dirty Pictures: Learning from Clara Tice's 1925 Decameron Illustrations"
Cosette Bruhns Alonso (U of Pennsylvania)

"Hortensia, Filippa, Novella"
Maggie Fritz-Morkin (U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

"Giletta, Jacoba, and the Other mediche. Gendering Science in Decameron III.9"
Matteo Pace (Connecticut C)

III. Reframing Ethics in Boccaccio's Works

Chair: Francesco Ciabattoni (Georgetown U)

"Decameron's Frames and the Sense of the Sacred"
Alison Cornish (New York U)

"Divergent Lessons: The Interpretation of the Infernal Hunt among Dante, Boccaccio, and Passavanti"
Mario Sassi (Williams C)

"Con più ordinato parlare e coperto. Songs, Novellas, and Boccaccio's Ethics of Narration"
Paolo Scartoni (Rutgers U)

"'Poeta fui': Dante's Virgil through Boccaccio's Esposizioni sopra la Comedia"
Chiara Sbordoni (U of Notre Dame, Rome Global Gateway)

IV. Boccaccio and the Daughters of Lot

Chair: Maggie Fritz-Morkin (U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

"Boccaccio and the Daughters of Lot: Plague, Population, and Natural Law"
Justin Steinberg (U of Chicago)

Response: Enrica Zanin (U de Strasbourg)