BOCCACCIO 


650

Portrait of Boccaccio from Il Decamerone di messer Giovanni Boccaccio, Venice: 1547 (Wing ZP 535 .G4). Newberry Library

ABA 6th Triennial Conference Program

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Day 1
Thursday, September 18th

9:00 am - 9:20 am
 Ruggles

Opening Remarks

Lia Markey
Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
and
Elsa Filosa
President of the American Boccaccio Association

9:30 am - 11:00 am
Panels 1-3

  • Chair: Maggie Fritz-Morkin, UNC-Chapel Hill
    Location: Baskes

    • Nicola Esposito, Palacký University Olomouc
      “Amarus in fundo”: tracce di contemporaneità sociopolitica nel nono libro del De casibus virorum illustrium

    • Lorenzo Bartoli, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
      Boccaccio dantista, fra politica e filologia: il Trattatello in laude di Dante e il Libro del Chiodo

    • Fabiana Michieli, Università di Torino
      Translatio Feminae: la costruzione del femminile tra Boccaccio e Vérard. Dal De mulieribus claris all’edizione francese del 1493

  • Chair: Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago
    Location: Rettinger

    • Caterina Nicodemo, University of Chicago
      Violenza e Consenso nel Ninfale fiesolano: per una nuova lettura dello stato di natura

    • Fara Taddei, University of Chicago
      Sexuality and Medical Knowledge in The Decameron

    • Eleonora Stoppino, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
      The Mechanics of Contagion: Medicine, Poison, and Healing in the Decameron

  • Chair: Theodore Cachey, University of Notre Dame
    Location: Ruggles

    • Rhiannon Daniels, University of Bristol
      Reading by Design: Rubrics in the Renaissance Decameron

    • Kristina Olson, George Mason University
      Uncontained Obscenity: The Role of the Frame and Early English Translations of the Decameron

    • Fabian Alfie, University of Arizona
      An Obscene, Lewd, and Lascivious Book of Indecent Character: Privately Printed Copies of the Decameron

11:00 am - 11:15 am
 Break

11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Panels 4-6

  • Chair: Elissa Weaver, University of Chicago
    Location: Baskes

    • Michael Sherberg, Washington University, St. Louis
      The Terrain of the Cornice

    • Federica Caneparo, University of Chicago
      Mural Paintings and the Decameron

    • Niall Atkinson, University of Chicago
      Boccaccio’s Walls: Bodily Experience and Spatial History

  • Chair: Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago
    Location: Rettinger

    • Filippo Gianferrari , University of California, Santa Cruz
      “These services will lend you feathered eagle wings” (Bucc. Carm. 14.278). Boccaccio’s Reply to the Ecloga Theoduli in Olympia: Pitting Works against Faith

    • Alison Cornish , NYU
      The Marriage Plot and the Sacred Canopy

    • Grace Delmolino, University of California - Davis
      The Lucretia Complex: The Poetics and Jurisprudence of Consent in Boccaccio’s Fiction

  • Chair: Kristina Olson, George Mason University
    Location: Ruggles

    • Carol Chiodo, Claremont Colleges Library
      Bound and Banned in America: Giovanni Boccaccio, Anthony Comstock, and Pulping Fictions

    • Cosette Bruhns Alonso, Brown University
      “An Obnoxious Text”: Clara Tice’s Improper Illustrations for the Decameron in 1925

    • Martin Eisner, Duke University
      A Modern Medieval Boccaccio: A Little Light Reading in The Little Hours (2017)

12:45 pm - 2:15 pm 
Lunch Break

1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Collection Presentation at Newberry Library
ITW Seminar Room

2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Panels 7-9 

  • Chair: Olivia Holmes, Binghamton University
    Location: Baskes

    • Giacomo Comiati, Università di Padova
      Boccaccio’s Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italian Commentaries on Petrarch

    • Nicolas Longinotti, Freie-Universität Berlin
      Addressing Boccaccio: Vernacular Canon in Fifteenth-Century Commentaries on Petrarch

  • Chair: Maggie Fritz-Morkin, UNC-Chapel Hill
    Location: Rettinger

    • David Bénéteau, Seton Hall University
      Cornice, luoghi privati e spazi intimi: alla ricerca dell’agency femminile

    • Angela Fabris, University of Klagenfurt
      Topografie dell’intimità: Spazio privato e agency narrativa nel Decameron

    • Lorenzo D'Agostino, UNC - Chapel Hill
      Denied Landscape: Ferondo’s (Geographical) Nightmare

  • Chair: Sara Díaz, Fairfield University
    Location: Ruggles

    • Irene Cappelletti, Independent Scholar
      “Donne mie care”: per un piccolo codice diplomatico del “frammento magliabechiano”

    • Emma Elizabeth Pcolinski, Indiana University
      Visions of Venus: Mensola, Fiammetta, and Quattrocento Bridal Education 

    • Gary Cestaro, De Paul University
      “Firm thighs and rounded buttocks”: Male Bodies as Objects of Desire in Boccaccio’s Commentary on Inf. 5, 15-16

    • Silvia Nencetti, UNC - Chapel Hill
      Giovanni, Jean, and the Women

3:45 pm- 4:00 pm
Break

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Panels 10-12

  • Chair: Daragh O'Connell, University College Cork
    Location: Rettinger

    • Lorenzo Dell'Oso, Durham University
      Guarding the Poet, Guiding the People: Boccaccio’s Vernacular Theology and the Fraticelli Threat

    • Franziska Meier Georg-August, Universität Göttingen
      The Term "bestialità" in Boccaccio's Lectures on Dante's Comedy

    • George Rayson, University College Cork
      “Né balbettava la lingua”: Dante’s Siren, Boethius’ “scenicas meretriculas” and Boccaccio’s Defence of Poetry

  • Chair: Francesco Ciabattoni. Georgetown University
    Location: B84

    • Brittany Asaro, University of San Diego
      Reading and Writing Eve: Echoes of Genesis in the Decameron’s Frame

    • Anne Robin, Université de Lille, Cecille
      Tristan and Isolde “submerged” in Boccaccio’s Decameron

    • Renato Ricco, Université Côte d’Azur /Università Federico II Napoli
      Le fonti del De mulieribus claris: nuove prospettive di ricerca

  • Chair: Daniela D’Eugenio, University of Arkansas
    Location: B91

    • Kathryn McKinley, University of Maryland - Baltimore
      The Literal Exegesis of Boccaccio’s Life of Ovid (Esposizioni IV) in its Classical Contexts: Legitimizing the Vernacular

    • Jonathan Hughes, Exeter University
      The Premature Renaissance: the Emergence of the Mother Tongue in Fourteenth-Century Florence

    • Kamila Kaminska-Palarczy, Yale University
      “Parole dei pellegrini”: the Trecento in the Prologues to the Canterbury Tales

    • Marina Di Rosa, Università di Genova & Université de Genève
      Reassessing Boccaccio’s Rime: Towards a new Commentary ,

End of First Day

Day 2
Friday, September 19th

9:00 am - 10:30 am
Panels 13-16

  • Chair: Richard Lansing, Brandeis University
    Location: B 82

    • Laura Banella, University of Notre Dame
      Why Lyric? Boccaccio's Lyric Poetry and Florentine Identity

    • Akash Kumar, UC Berkeley
      Boccaccio’s Lyric as Archipelago

    • Alyssa Granacki, University of Kentucky
      Boccaccio's Buccolicum carmen and a Sapphic Model of Poetry

    • Beatrice Maria Rosso, University of Notre Dame
      Boccaccio's Lyric Poems: Baian Sonnets and the Problem of Sequence

  • Chair: Kristina Olson, George Mason University
    Location: Ruggles

    • Monica Green, Independent Scholar
      Boccaccio's Plague: Latest Results from the Newly Emerging Biological History of the Black Death

    • Maddalena Signorini, Università di Roma Tor Vergata
      Un Umanesimo non convenzionale: Giovanni Boccaccio e i suoi libri

    • Jason Rodriguez Vivrette, UC Berkeley
      (S)lavish Gifts of Saladin: Binding the Mediterranean through Displays of Subjection in Boccaccio and Ibn Munqidh

  • Chair: Michael Papio, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Location: Rettinger

    • Eleonora Buonocore, University of Calgary 

    • Maggie Fritz-Morkin, UNC-Chapel Hill

    • Olivia Holmes, Binghamton University

    • Tim Kircher, Guilford College

    • Gregory Stone, Louisiana State University

  • Chair: Franziska Meier Georg-August, Universität Göttinge
    Location: Baskes

    • Charles West, Yale University
      Wild Wives and Hesitant Husbands: Marriage in Decameron V. 10 and Inferno XVI

    • Daragh O'Connell, University College Cork
      Boccaccio’s ‘Late Style’ in the Esposizioni: The Difficulty of Dante’s Florence and Florentines 

    • Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė, Vilnius University
      ‘Uno bellissimo paone le parea vedere’: The Classical Intertexts of Dante’s Mother’s Dream in Boccaccio’s Trattatello

    • Heather Webb, Yale University
      Immersions and Atmospheres from Dante to Boccaccio

10:30 - 10:45 am
 Break

10:45 am - 12:15 pm
Panels 17-19

  • Chair: Akash Kumar, UC Berkeley
    Location: Baskes

    • Daniela D'Eugenio, University of Arkansas
      “Ingegno spesso, e alta virtude”. A Virtuous Decameron’s Day VI in Vincenzo Brusantino’s Le cento novelle

    • Alberto Gelmi, Vassar College
      Ettore Fabietti’s Il Decamerone ad uso del popolo (1906)

    • Alexander Brock, Appalachian State University
      Decameron 9.3 between Translation and Folklore in the English Renaissance

    • Paolo Scartoni, Washington University, Saint Louis
      From the Page to the Stage: Decameron and Opera in the Long Eighteenth Century

  • Chair: Millicent Marcus, Yale University
    Location: Rettinger

    • Jon Solomon, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
      Divinity and Diva: Boccaccio and Pasolini in the Medea Tradition

    • Matteo Pace, Connecticut College
      Re-Framing Boccaccio: Netflix’s Decameron (2024) Between Cornice and Novelle

    • James McGregor, University of Georgia - Athens
      Gaslighting Calandrino 

  • Chair: Michael Papio, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Location: Ruggles

    • Renzo Bragantini, Università degli Studi “La Sapienza”, Roma

    • Francesco Ciabattoni, Georgetown University

    • Jason Houston, Gonzaga University, Florence

    • Elsa Filosa, Vanderbilt University

    • Anne Robin, Université de Lille, Cecille

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm 
Newberry Box Lunches

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Panels 20-22

  • Chair: Francesco Ciabattoni, Georgetown University
    Location: B 82

    • Ambra Moroncini, University of Sussex
      Decameron II. 9 (1349-53) and Cymbeline (1610): How Boccaccio Helped Shakespeare Create “One of the Most Exquisite” Female Heroines

    • Paola Nasti, Northwestern University, Pasolini’s Ciappelletto: a Figura of ‘guaglione ‘e malavita’

  • Chair: Maggie Fritz-Morkin
    UNC - Chapel Hill
    Location: Baskes

    • Eleonora Buonocore, University of Calgary
      The Drama of Recognition: The Ethical Value of Memory in Boccaccio’s Decameron

    • Stone Gregory, Louisiana State University
      The Decameron’s Tale of Guido Cavalcanti: An Illumination of Inferno X

  • Chair: Jason Houston, Gonzaga University in Florence
    Location: Rettinger

    • Sam Huskey, The University of Oklahoma

    • Richard Lansing, Brandeis University

    • Jon Solomon, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm 
Break

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Ruggles

Plenary Session
with
Simone Marchesi 
Professor of Italian Studies
Princeton University
and
Timothy Kircher
H. Curt and Pat S. Hege Professor of History
Guilford College

Decameronian Paradoxes: A Conversation

Moderated by Sara Díaz, Fairfield University

4:00-5:00
Reception

End of Second Day

Day 3
Saturday, September 20

10:00 am - 11:15 am
Boccaccio as Muse: New Post-Pandemic Fiction
Contemporary writers reading creative responses to Boccaccio
with
Ignatius Valentine Aloysius, Northwestern University
Joel Calahan, Independent Artist
Olivia Holmes, Binghamton University
S.L. Wisenberg, Editor of Another Chicago Magazine 

11:15 am - 11:30 am
Break

11:30 am - 12:45 pm
Keynote Address
by
Millicent Marcus
Sarai Ribicoff Professor of Italian Studies, Yale University
When Old Stories Are Given New Life: 
Boccaccio, Pasolini, and the American Boccaccio Association

12:45 pm - 1:00 pm
Closing Remarks

1:00 pm- 2:00 pm
Closing Reception with Light Refreshments

End of Third Day

The American Boccaccio Association’s Triennial Conference Boccaccio @ 650 has been made possible in part thanks to the generous support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Chicago, The Newberry Library, and The Ragusa Foundation for the Humanities.