ABA 6th Triennial Conference Program

Panel 1: The Political and Social Boccaccio: Contexts, Representations, and Influences
Janet Smarr, UC San Diego, Chair

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.

Panel 2: Rethinking Boccaccio’s Naturalism
Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago, Chair

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

Panel 3: Framing the Decameron: Printers, Translators, Censors and Artists (I)

Theodore Cachey, University of Notre Dame, Chair

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