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

Day 1
Thursday, September 18th
Newberry Library

  • Janet Smarr, Chair
    UC San Diego

    • 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.

  • Justin Steinberg, Chair
    University of Chicago

    • 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

  • Theodore Cachey, Chair
    University of Notre Dame

    • 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

9:00 am - 9:20 am
Opening Remarks

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

11:00 am - 11:15 am
 Break

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

  • Elissa Weaver
    University of Chicago, Chair

    • 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

  • Justin Steinberg
    University of Chicago, Chair

    • 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

  • Kristina Olson
    George Mason University, Chair

    • 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
Off-Site Lunch and Collection Presentation at Newberry Library
ITW Seminar Room

2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Panels 7-9 

  • Olivia Holmes
    Binghamton University, Chair 

    • 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

  • Maggi Fritz-Morkin
    UNC-Chapel Hill, Chair

    • 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

  • Sara Díaz
    Fairfield University, Chair

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

    • Enna 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

  • Daragh O'Connell
    University College Cork, Chair

    • 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

  • Francesco Ciabattoni
    Georgetown University, Chair 

    • 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

  • Eugenia D’Eugenio
    University of Arkansas, Chair 

    • 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
Newberry Library

9:30 am - 10:30 am
Panels 13-15

  • Richard Lansing, Chair
    Brandeis University

    • 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

  • Michael Papio, Chair
    University of Massachusetts - Amherst

    • Eleonora Buonocore, University of Calgary 

    • Maggie Fritz-Morkin, UNC-Chapel Hill

    • Olivia Holmes, Binghamton University

    • Tim Kircher, Guilford College

    • Gregory Stone, Louisiana State University

  • Franziska Meier, Chair
    Georg-August Universität Göttinge

    • 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 16-19

  • Michael Papio, Chair
    University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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

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

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

  • Millicent Marcus, Yale University
    Chair

    • 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 

  • Elsa Filosa, Vanderbilt University
    Chair 

    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

  • Simone Marchesi, Princeton University
    Chair

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

    • Giovanna Corazza, Ca' Foscari - Venezia
      Echi danteschi nel De montibus di Boccaccio

    • Jelena Todorovic, University of Wisconsin Madison
      La “vergogna” di Dante e le “emendazioni” di Boccaccio nella fortuna della Vita nova

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

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

  • Lia Markey, Newberry Library
    Chair

    • 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

    • Christian Rivoletti, Friedrich Alexander Universität
      From Humanism to Goethe: Continuities and Shifts in the German Afterlives of the Decameron

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

  • Maggie Fritz-Morkin
    UNC - Chapel Hill
    Chair 

    • Charles Firestone East, Columbia University
      Logic, Rhetoric, and Audience: Boccaccio and Aristotle on the Elements of a Good Argument

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

    • Adriana Merenda, NYU
      Recipes as Performative Acts in Boccaccio’s Decameron

  • Elsa Filosa, Vanderbilt University, Chair

    • Jason Houston, Gonzaga University in Florence

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

In conversation with
Sara Díaz, Fairfield University

4:00-5:00
Reception

End of Second Day

Day 3
Saturday, September 20
Istituto italiano di cultura

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. Light Refreshments Served

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.