Message from the President Giuseppe Velli: In Memoriam Second

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American Boccaccio Association Newsletter, Fall 2013
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“studium fuit alma poesis”
Vol. 40, No. 2 American Boccaccio Association Fall 2013
Officers:
Michael Papio, University of Massachusetts Amherst, President
Simone Marchesi, Princeton University, Vice President
Susanna Barsella, Fordham University, Treasurer
Elsa Filosa, Vanderbilt University, Secretary-Newsletter Editor
IN THIS ISSUE:
Message from the President
Giuseppe Velli: In Memoriam
Second International Boccaccio Conference: Boccaccio in Washington DC
Column by the Host, Francesco Ciabattoni
Awards & Travel Grants by ABA
Program
Report from the Treasurer
The Boccaccio AfterLife Award
2013 – Boccaccio’s Centenary:
July 10-12: locating Boccaccio in 2013 (University of Manchester)
September 30: Boccaccio & Company (British Library)
October 4: Nella moltitudine delle cose (University of Copenhagen)
October 7: Celebrating Giovanni Boccaccio (Vassar College)
October 24-26: A Boccaccian Renaissance (Berkeley – Stanford)
October 24-26: Boccace et la France (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
October 28 – November 1: Giovanni Boccaccio (Universidad de México)
November 1-2: Boccaccio at Yale (Yale University)
November 5-6: Tra innovazione e ricerca (Universidade de São Paulo)
November 22-23: Boccaccio e la Romagna (Forlì)
December 12-14: Umana cosa è aver compassione degli afflitti (Torino)
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
In last spring’s newsletter, I shared the good news that the RSA had accepted our
Association as one of its official allied organizations. Because of this, the ABA will be
able to have five guaranteed sessions at the RSA Convention and may hold a meeting
there as well. More good news arrived this past October: the ABA’s request to renew its
official standing with the MLA was passed. (See below.) The great advantage of these
organizational victories, of course, is that Boccaccio’s presence is assured at a minimum
of two principal conferences in our field. As you no doubt know, it has been difficult to
bring together a significant number of Boccaccio scholars during the two-year hiatus between triennial ABA conferences. This difficulty led us on a quest to do for Boccaccio
what is annually done for Dante at Kalamazoo and elsewhere; namely, establish a regular and dependable venue for sharing our work on the Certaldese.
The great success of the Georgetown conference, for which we are all profoundly grateful, has produced another, less immediately visible boon. Membership in the ABA has
risen markedly. This increase entails not only additional funds for supporting our work,
but also a wider distribution of our newsletter. I invite you to make use of this tool for
the dissemination of your own announcements and the promotion of your own initiatives. Similarly, Heliotropia remains the highest profile outlet for work on Boccaccio in
North America and its distribution is unmatched. Please consider submitting your work
to the journal and taking advantage of the fact that we have a steady stream of books
available for review.
Lastly, I would simply like to thank all of you for a remarkable centenary. Even a cursory glance at the pages that follow reveals that you, the members of the ABA, are engaged in a wide range of important research topics and that this year genuinely signals a
landmark moment in the study of Boccaccio. Indeed, I do not recall ever before seeing
such a wealth of knowledge on our subject of study produced in a single calendar year.
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In Memoriam
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We would like to remember Professor Giuseppe Velli, who was a
remarkable Boccaccio scholar and whose work remains fundamental in Italy and North America to this day.
Prof. Velli was one of our keynote speakers at the first International
Boccaccio Conference held in Amherst, MA on April 30-May 1, 2010. That
was the last occasion on which Prof. Velli came in the United States, where
he had lived for twenty-five years and for which he always had a special
fondness.
Giuseppe Velli passed away on October 22, 2013.
As a young man, he studied at the Scuola Normale di Pisa and elsewhere
with the likes of Giorgio Pasquali, Luigi Russo, Alessandro Perosa, Paul Oskar Kristeller, Augusto Campana and Reto Bezzola. Upon the completion of
his studies, he spent several years teaching abroad, first holding appointments in Paris and New York before taking an assistant professorship at the
University of California Los Angeles and later a post as full professor at
Smith College. Afterwards, he returned to Italy where he taught Letteratura
umanistica at the Università di Macerata, Letteratura italiana e filologia
dantesca at the Università di Venezia and lastly as professor of Italian
literature at the Università degli Studi di Milano. Beginning in the 1980s,
he maintained an important presence in the United States as a visiting
scholar at UCLA, Johns Hopkins University, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Indiana University.
Professor Velli’s studies ranged widely, but the ABA is particularly
appreciative of his work on Boccaccio. His work, including the edition of
the Carmina for Mondadori’s “Tutte le opere” series and his famous volume entitled Petrarca e Boccaccio. Tradizione · memoria · scrittura
(1995), helped enhance our understanding of: the patterns of intertextuality
between Boccaccio’s works and classical literature; the relationship between Boccaccio and Petrarch; and the modus operandi of Boccaccio at his
scriptorium. A complete bibliography will appear soon in Heliotropia.
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International Boccaccio Conference:
Boccaccio in Washington DC
Sponsored by the American Boccaccio Association
& hosted at the Italian Embassy in Washington DC and at Georgetown University
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REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE
By Francesco Ciabattoni
On October 4-6, 2013 Georgetown
University and the Italian Institute of Culture hosted an international conference in
collaboration with and sponsored by The
American Boccaccio Association on the
seven hundredth anniversary of Giovanni
Boccaccio’s birth.
With forty-two speakers and four keynote
addresses, the program (provided below)
proved extremely rich and broad, probing
the many facets of and approaches to the
work of the Certaldese writer.
Carlo Delcorno, from the Università degli
Studi di Bologna, delivered a most insightful
opening address at the Italian Embassy, titled “Boccaccio e i libri dei frati.” Prof.
Delcorno shared his outstanding knowledge
of Boccaccio’s use of the literature of the
friars for the composition of his Decameron.
Teodolinda Barolini, Lorenzo Da Ponte
Professor at Columbia University, spoke of
“A Philosophy of Consolation: The Place of
the Other in Life's Transactions,” illuminating Boccaccio’s poetic of consolation in the
Decameron and the epistle to Pino de’
Rossi.
Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor at
Yale University, traced, in his talk “Boccac-
cio’s Way,” a learned panorama of the
writer’s humanism in his dialogue with
Francesco Petrarca, while
Elissa Weaver, Professor Emerita at
University of Chicago, discussed “Fashion
and Fortune in the Decameron or What to
Wear and Why It Matters,” providing most
useful historical context for a deeper understanding of social statuses and garments and
clothing details in the fourteenth century.
The event organizers, Laura Bendetti,
Francesco Ciabattoni, Alberto Manai and
ABA officers Susanna Barsella, Elsa Filosa,
Simone Marchesi and Michael Papio all
contributed also by chairing sessions and
acting as respondents.
The final round table with Teodolinda
Barolini, (La Sapienza - Università di Roma), Roberto Fedi (Università per Stranieri
di Perugia), Pier Massimo Forni (Johns
Hopkins University) and Elissa Weaver harvested the fruitful crop of this international
event, comparing the richly diverse approaches to Boccaccio studies on both sides
of the Atlantic and marking new directions
in this very healthy field of literary scholarship.
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AWARDS & TRAVEL GRANTS
During the conference, on Sunday, October 6th at 8:30-9:00am, the American Boccaccio association held its Annual Meeting. On this occasion two awards and two travel
grants were awarded to the following recipients:
1. The Award for Recognition of Outstanding Service to the American Boccaccio
Association was presented to Professor Elissa B. Weaver. Prof. Weaver was, in
fact, the driving force behind the ABA’s process of rebirth after the Association’s
period of apparent dormancy in 1976-1979. She was the Secretary-Treasurer
and the Newsletter editor in those crucial restorative years of 1979-1980, and
become Vice-President of the Association in 1980. The successor to Prof. Aldo
Scaglione in the presidency, she was the fifth ABA president, serving from the fall
of 1982 until 1986. In addition to this tireless dedication to the association, we
would also like to recognize her outstanding scholarship on Boccaccio. Indeed,
her editorial work on The Decameron First Day in Perspective launched the
Association’s ongoing Lecturae Boccaccii.
2. The second ABA Award for recognition of outstanding service was presented to
Prof. Francesco Ciabattoni. Prof. Ciabattoni worked relentlessly for the
organization of the Second International Boccaccio conference sponsored by the
American Boccaccio Association and hosted at the Italian Embassy and
Georgetown University. The ABA is proud to confer upon him this award in
recognition of all that he did to make the conference so successful.
3. Two Travel Grants of two hundred and fifty dollars each were awarded to two
graduate students who attended the conference Boccaccio in Washington DC. One
was given to Irene Cappelletti, is a doctoral student at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano (Switzerland), who presented a paper entitled: “Il ‘frammento magliabechiano’: un’insolita rilettura del Decameron.” The other travel
grant was awarded to Sandro Puiatti, who is pursuing his PhD at Indiana University and completing his dissertation, which is entitled: “Proto-typi Libri Dantis:
Fortuna del modello editoriale e culturale di Giovanni Boccaccio.”
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PROGRAM:
Friday, October 4th
ITALIAN EMBASSY - 6:00 pm
Welcome:
- Luca Franchetti Pardo, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Italy to the USA
- Laura Benedetti, Chair of Italian Department, Georgetown University
- Michael Papio, President of the American
Boccaccio Association
Keynote Speaker:
Carlo Delcorno, Università degli Studi di
Bologna: “Boccaccio e i libri dei frati.”
RECEPTION
Saturday, October 5th
MORNING SESSIONS: 9:00 – 10:15 am
Friendship in Boccaccio
Chair: Pier Massimo Forni, Professor at the
Johns Hopkins University.
- Renzo Bragantini, Professor at Università di
Roma “La Sapienza”: “L’amicizia, la Fama, il
Libro. Sulla seconda epistola a Mainardo Cavalcanti.”
- Elsa Filosa, Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt
University: “L’amicizia ai tempi della congiura.”
The Decameron Frame
Chair: Brenda Deen Schildgen, Professor at
the University of California Davis.
- Monica Powers Keane, PhD candidate at the
University of California Davis: “Panfilo’s
Rule and the Limits of Magnanimity.”
- Shirin A. Khanmohamadi, Associate Professor at San Francisco State University: “Hyper-Framing the Decameron.”
MORNING SESSIONS: 10:30 – 11:45 am
Interdisciplinary
Boccaccio:
Jurist,
Philosopher, Politician
Chair: Timothy Kircher, Professor at Guilford
College.
- Bernardo Piciché, Associate Professor at Vir-
ginia Commonwealth University: “Boccaccio
giurista”
- Michaela Paasche Grudin, Professor Emerita
at Lewis & Clark College: “The Decameron,
Marsilio, and the Rhetoric of Unorthodoxy.”
- Michael Sherberg, Professor at Washington
University in Saint Louis: “The Laudevoli
Consolazioni of Boccaccio and Boethius.”
Decameron Readings across the Disciplines
Chair: David Lummus, Assistant Professor at
Stanford University.
- Pina Palma, Professor of Italian at SCSU,
New Haven: “Boccaccio’s Cimone: The New
Model for a Changed World.”
- Julia Cozzarelli, Associate Professor at Ithaca
College: “‘Vostro cavallo ha troppo duro
trotto’ (VI.1): Horses and Their Kind in the
Decameron.”
- Maria Pia Ellero, Associate Professor at the
Università della Basilicata: “Lisa e i remedia
amoris: per una lettura di Dec. II.8 e X.7 tra
Valerio Massimo e San Tommaso.”
Andrea R. Caluori, Ph.D. Candidate, University
of Connecticut: “Laughter and Perverse
Friendship in the tale of Calandrino.”
12:00 – 1:00 pm Plenary Session
Teodolinda Barolini, Lorenzo Da Ponte
Professor at Columbia University: “A Philosophy of Consolation: The Place of the Other in
Life’s Transactions.”
AFTERNOON SESSIONS :2:30 – 3:45 pm
Boccaccio’s Library
Chair: Michael Papio, Professor at University
of Massachusetts Amherst.
- H. Wayne Storey, Professor at Indiana
University, Bloomington: “Bio-Bibliographic
Method in Boccaccio’s Books.”
- Michael Papio, Professor at University of
Massachusetts Amherst: “On Boccaccio’s
Debt to the Paduan Prehumanists.”
- Jelena Todorović , Assistant Professor at Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, Madison: “Dante’s
Opera Omnia by Giovanni Boccaccio.”
- Beatrice Arduini, Assistant Professor at the
University of Washington, Seattle: “The
Conversion of Literary Icons: Annotazioni e
Discorsi sopra alcuni luoghi del Decameron.”
Multiple Perspectives on Lisabetta da Messina (Dec. IV.5)
Chair: Simone Marchesi, Associate Professor
at Princeton University.
- Valerio Cappozzo, Assistant Professor at
University of Mississippi: “«Delle verità
dimostrate da’ sogni»: Boccaccio e l’oniromanzia medievale.”
- Stefano Selenu, Visiting Lecturer at Cornell
University: “Mourning Lorenzo: Gender,
Trauma and Macabre Rebirth in Decameron
IV.5.”
- Shirley Ann Smith, Associate Professor at
Skidmore College: “Basil in the Pot: Boccaccio and the Circa instans.”
AFTERNOON SESSIONS 4:00 – 5:15 pm
Boccaccio Editor and Copyist
Chair: Igor Candido, Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany.
- Laura Banella, PhD Candidate at Duke
University: “L’edizione della Vita nuova del
Boccaccio e i poeti che scrivono poeti.”
- Anthony Nussmeier, Lecturer at Pennsylvania State University: “Boccaccio e il De
vulgari Eloquentia fra il Codice Chigiano e il
Codice Toledano.”
- Irene Cappelletti, PhD Candidate at Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano: “Il
‘frammento magliabechiano’: un’insolita
rilettura del Decameron.”
Boccaccio and Religion
Chair: Gianni Cicali, Assistant Professor at
Georgetown University.
- Maria Esposito Frank, Professor at the
University of Hartford: “Boccaccio’s Jews.”
- Katherine A. Brown, Visiting Assistant
Professor at Skidmore College: “Return to
Life: Resurrection and Interpretation in
Decameron III.8 and X.4.”
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Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor at
Yale University: “Boccaccio’s Way.”
Sunday, October 6th
8:30 – 9:00 am: Annual Meeting of the
American Boccaccio Association
MORNING SESSIONS 9:00 – 10:15 am
Beyond the Decameron I
Chair: Susanna Barsella, Associate Professor
at Fordham University.
- Anna Marra, PhD candidate at Yale University :“La richiesta del dono: Filocolo, un’analisi comparativa tra Quistioni e Cornice.”
- Simona Lorenzini, PhD candidate at Yale
University: “Dalla corrispondenza con
Checco di Meletto Rossi al Buccolicum Carmen: le due redazioni dell’egloga Faunus.”
- Giulia Cardillo, PhD candidate at Yale
University: “Broken Bodies: From Lorenzo’s
Head to Aesculapius’ Medicine”
- Kyle J. Skinner, PhD candidate at Yale
University “Canon Law in the Decameron
and Filocolo.”
Boccaccio and Women
Chair: Laura Benedetti, Professor at Georgetown University.
- Olivia Holmes, Associate Professor at Binghamton University: “From Anti-Feminist
Exemplum to Compassion for those in Distress.”
- Laurie Shepard, Professor at Boston College:
“Lauretta’s Lament: Incongruity in the
Songs that Conclude the Days of the
Decameron.”
- Sara Diaz, Assistant Professor at Fairfield
University: “Boccaccio’s Trattatello and Vita
Petracchi: Vernacular Anxieties and Latinate Masculinity.”
MORNING SESSIONS 10:30 – 11:45 am
Beyond the Decameron II
Chair: Brandon Essary, Assistant Professor at
Elon University.
- Kathryn McKinley, Associate Professor at
the University of Maryland, Baltimore
County: “Murals in the Amorosa Visione:
Reassessing 14th-Century Aesthetics.”
- Johnny Bertolio, PhD Candidate at the
University of Toronto: “Da Filocolo a Gian di
Procida (Dec. 5.6): un caso di auto-riscrittura.”
- Cosimo Burgassi, Researcher at the Istituto
Opera del Vocabolario Italiano – CNR – Firenze, Italy: “Le traduzioni di Tito Livio
attribuite a Boccaccio alla luce del Dizionario dei Volgarizzamenti (DiVo).”
Historicizing Boccaccio’s Life and Work
Chair: Kristina Olson, Assistant Professor at
George Mason University.
- George Dameron, Professor at Saint Michael’s College: “Identifying a Killer: Recent
Research on the Plague in Boccaccio’s Decameron.”
- William Caferro, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University: “Boccaccio, Petrarch, Dante and the
Ubaldini War, 1349-1350.”
- Daniel Bornstein, Professor at Washington
University in St. Louis: “Pastoral Care in
Boccaccio’s Italy.”
Elissa Weaver, Professor Emerita at the
University of Chicago: “Fashion and Fortune
in the Decameron or What to Wear and Why It
Matters.”
AFTERNOON SESSIONS 2:30 – 3:45 pm
Boccaccio and the invention of genres
Chair: Elsa Filosa, Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University.
- Igor Candido, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany: “Boccaccio rinnovatore di generi
classici.”
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- Roberto Fedi, Professor at the Università per
Stranieri di Perugia, Italy: “La 102a novella
del Boccaccio: la novella di Francesca da Rimini.”
Returning to Boccaccio
Chair: Janet Smarr, Professor at the University of California San Diego.
- William Robins, Associate Professor at
University of Toronto: “Borrowing from the
Decameron in the 1360s.”
- Francesco Fiumara, Associate Professor at
Southeastern Louisiana University: “Tasso e
Boccaccio: dalla Liberata alla Conquistata.
Appunti e riflessioni su alcune immagini
boccacciane della Gerusalemme Liberata e
sulla loro fortuna nella Gerusalemme Conquistata.”
- Gianni Cicali, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University: “Boccaccio and Pietro
Trinchera (Naples: 1702-1755).”
4:00 – 5:00 pm - TAVOLA ROTONDA
Organizers: Pier Massimo Forni & Renzo
Bragantini.
Chair: Roberto Fedi, Professor at Università
per Stranieri di Perugia.
- Teodolinda Barolini
- Renzo Bragantini
- Roberto Fedi
- Pier Massimo Forni
- Giuseppe Mazzotta
- Elissa Weaver
5:00 – 6:00 pm APERITIVO
FAREWELL
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REPORT FROM TREASURER:
Revenue and expenses of the American Boccaccio Association in 2013
ABA revenues in 2013:
Membership fees
Donations for the Lecturae Boccaccii
Other donations
ABA Conference fees
$ 1,855.00
$ 380.00
$ 215.00
$ 2,060.00
Total revenue
$ 4,510.00
ABA Expenses in 2013:
ABA Conference expenses
$ 5,418.46
Total Expenses
$ 5,418.46
NET LOSS
$
908.56
ABA Funds as of 12/31/12
$
4,779.43
ABA Funds as of 12/31/13
$
3,870.87
In 2013, the ABA’s revenue from membership notably increased (+51%), probably due to
the celebration of Boccaccio’s 700th anniversary and the Triennial ABA Conference organized in
Washington DC in October. Donations for the Lectura Boccaccii series have also shown a
substantial increase (+52%), which counterbalances the slight decrease in donations (-15%) during the calendar year. The major financial effort for ABA in 2013 was the organization of the
Triennial Conference in Washington DC. Thanks also to the generous contribution of
Georgetown University, the ABA was able to contain the cost of the conference significantly
($5,418.46) and minimize the net loss for 2013 ($ -908.56). The figure of total conference expenses comprises all ABA expenses, including travel grants and awards. Finally, as contribution
to the celebrations for the Boccaccio Year, the Association sponsored Prof. Marco Cursi’s (keynote speaker) participation in Binghamton University’s CEMERS conference held in April 2013
(at $1,000, an amount earmarked in 2012).
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AfterLife Prize
To celebrate the 700th anniversary of Giovanni Boccaccio’s birth and 2013 year of Italian Culture in
the United States, the Decameron Web @ Brown University in collaboration with the American
Boccaccio Association, the Italian Consulate General in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Ente Nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo, Italy had announced The Boccaccio AfterLife Prize for
Best Translation and Adaptation of a Decameron Novella into any Media (Text, HyperText, Theatre,
YouTube movie, Videogame, Twitter, or any other social media, animation or visualization on the
digital platform).
Boccaccio belongs to that elite group of authors whose legacy widely transcends the written word.
Adaptations of the Decameron surface in the cinema, digital projects, even computer games—perhaps only Dante’s Comedy, among Italian literary classics, has known similar popularity outside the
limits of academe. With this competition, the promoter of the Prize wished to harness the creativity
of students and readers of Boccaccio, inviting them to translate a novella of their choice into their
own, contemporary language, social context and preferred media.
The Award Ceremony took place in the Martinos
Auditorium of the Granoff Center for the Arts, on the
Brown campus, on November 23. The competition was
open to students and readers of Boccaccio from any
country, and to individuals or collaborative projects,
divided into three categories:
A. Translation or Adaptation in Writing
Honorable Mention: the 8th-grade students of the
Classe Seconda R, Scuola Media Rolandino de’
Passaggeri, Bologna, Italy for their class project “Errameron,” written under the direction of Prof. Flora
Milena Di Gioia, a free adaptation of some Decameronian themes to a contemporary Italian setting, based
on their daily lives in the city of Bologna after the
2012 earthquake (a parallel to the plague in the Decameron’s frame narrative).
First prize winner: Ian Sampson, from Providence,
RI, for his witty and linguistically inventive contemporary adaptation of the tale of Pinuccio and Niccolosa into modern English, loosely rhymed in terza
rima, an iambic verse consisting of stanzas of three
lines of no more than 140 characters (twitter-ready).
Ian Sampson is a PhD student in English at Brown
University currently at work on a verse translation of
Beowulf.
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B. Other Media
Honorable Mention: Simona Baltieri, from Florence, Italy, for a screenplay adaptation of the novella of the
Marchesana of Monferrato, intended for a papercut animation film that aims to display the “papery” nature
of its characters.
Honorable Mention: the students of Prof. Catherine Sama at the University of Rhode Island - Katie
Levowich, Kathleen O’Rourke, Wendy Searle, Elisabeth-Ann Viscione, for a pedagogically wellconceived and executed interactive multimedia IBook adaptation of the novella of Federigo degli Alberighi.
First prize winner: Mary Mazziotti, from Pittsburgh, PA, for a series of embroidered panels inspired by
several Decameronian novelle in which the theme of sexuality is intertwined with the fatal or violent death
of one or more protagonists, a memento of the deadly plague that looms over the entire work. Since 1993,
Mary Mazziotti has been creating contemporary memento mori in a variety of mediums, from cut-paper
silhouettes to embroidered textiles. Her work is often inspired by medieval manuscripts and portrait
miniatures.
C. Theatre Adaptation
Honorable Mention: Kieran Carroll, from Melbourne, Australia, for his “Tim-Burtonian” play and
contemporary theatrical adaptation of the first novella of Day Nine, featuring a fashionista young widow,
her suitors (a middle class bank teller and an information technology student, both death metal music fans)
and the corpse of an obese death metal singer. Kieran Carroll is a playwright from Melbourne, Australia
who has had thirteen plays produced nationally.
First Prize Winner: the students of the Liceo Canopoleno, from Sassari, Italy (below), for their original
adaptation and exuberant stage production in four languages (Italian, English, Latin and Sardinian) of the
novella of Griselda, a school project that lasted several months and involved approximately forty students
from different secondary schools in Sassari, under the direction of Sante Maurizi and Daniela Cossiga.
For more information and links to the winning works, visit:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/the_project/afterlife_winners.php
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International Conference
Locating Boccaccio in 2013
The University of Manchester, 10-12 July 2013
Locating Boccaccio in 2013 commemorated the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio’s birth,
organized by Dr. Guyda Armstrong and Professor Stephen J. Milner (University of Manchester), and Dr. Rhiannon Daniels (University of Bristol). Held in two of the city’s most iconic
buildings, Manchester Town Hall and the John Rylands Library, this major international
conference reflected on the position of Boccaccio and Boccaccio studies in the 21st century,
and stimulated new discussions about his status, with a particular focus on the material
dimensions of his works.
The conference was accompanied by an exhibition showcasing the Boccaccio holdings of
the John Rylands Library and a collection of artists’ books commissioned for the anniversary.
For more information:
http://locatingboccaccio.wordpress.com/
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Program
Wednesday 10 July
Registration and Opening Reception
7.00-8.00: Public Lecture:
Dr. Sarah Bodman (University of the West of England): ‘The Artist and the Book.”
Thursday 11 July
10-11: Keynote speaker:
Professor Anne D. Hedeman, “The Role of the Visual in Translating Boccaccio: Paris, 1400-1420.”
Session 1: 11.30-1.30
Session 1a: Textual Cultures
Session 1b: Reception of the Decameron
- Ambra Moroncini (University of Sussex), “Boc-
Straccioni di Annibal Caro.”
- Clorinda Donato (California State University): “‘A
uno sposo novello si può anche contare qualche
novelletta boccaccevole’: Boccaccio and the
Lascivious Discourse of Generation and Procreation among Eighteenth-Century Men of Science.”
- Enrica Maria Ferrara (Trinity College, Dublin):
“Ricodificare l’autore: Pasolini tra Giotto e Boccaccio.”
- Paula Regina Siega (Federal University of Espírito Santo-Fapes/CNPq): “Giovanni Boccaccio riletto da Pier Paolo Pasolini: un percorso di
comunicazione letteraria, dalla prosa alla sceneggiatura.”
Session 2a: Sources and Early Reception of
Vernacular Boccaccio
Session 2b: Boccaccio, Petrarch; Poetry
and Prose
- Martina Mazzetti (University of Florence): “Il segno di Boccaccio. Sopravvivenze autoriali nella
tradizione del Teseida”
- Kristina M. Olson (George Mason University):
“From Boccaccio to Salviati: Self-Censorship,
Censorship, and the Decameron.”
- Kenneth Clarke (University of York): “Reading
Boccaccio in 1384.”
- W. E. Coleman (City University of New York):
“Two Ghosts in the John Rylands Library.”
caccio a Roma. Suggestioni boccacciane ne Gli
Session 2: 2.30-4.30
- Emilia di Rocco (Università di Roma, La Sapienza): “Boccaccio and Intertextuality: Ovid in
the Decameron.”
- William Robins (University of Toronto): “Questioning Ancient Romance: Boccaccio’s Filocolo
and Antonio Pucci’s Apollonio di Tiro.”
- Irene Cappelletti (Università della Svizzera italiana): “Il frammento magliabechiano del Decameron: una complessa interpretazione del
Centonovelle.”
- Sarah Todd (University of Leeds): “Diversions,
Subversions, Perversions: Dream Visions in Boccaccio’s Amorosa Visione and Corbaccio.”
- Nicolò Maldina (University of Leeds): “Misogyny
in Perspective. Notes on Boccaccio’s attitude toward women in the Corbaccio.”
- Laura Refe (Villa I Tatti): “Boccaccio, Petrarca e
la lettera alla posterità.”
- Todd Boli (Independent Scholar): “Boccaccio’s
and Petrarch’s Public Careers, the Question of
Dante, and Boccaccio’s Beleaguered Legacy.”
5-6: Boccaccio Close-up: Text and Technologies
- Guyda Armstrong: “Presentation of a Boccaccio Manuscript”
- W. E. Coleman: “Two Ghosts in the John Rylands Library”
- Cheryl Porter: “Pigment Analysis in Boccaccio”
- Matthew Collins and Caroline Checkley-Scott: “Reading Skins: Codex and DNA Analysis”
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6-7: Keynote speaker
- Professor Marco Cursi (Università di Roma, ‘La Sapienza’):
“Boccaccio tra Dante e Petrarca: manoscritti, marginalia, disegni”
Friday 12 July,
Session 3: 9-11
Session 3a: Boccaccio’s Poetics: History vs.
Fiction, Allegory vs. Realism
- James C. Kriesel (Colby College): “Defending the
Corpus: The Theological-Philosophical Bases of
Boccaccio’s Poetics.”
- David Lummus (Stanford University): ‘Boccaccio’s Humble Poetics: History, Allegory, Myth.”’
- Charles Leavitt (University of Reading): “‘Il realismo di un nuovissimo Medio Evo’: Boccaccio
and Neorealism.”
Session 3b: Boccaccio e l'idea di autore
- Giancarlo Alfano, (Seconda Università di Napoli):
“Come si diventa “Autore”? Strategie testuali
dalla Caccia di Diana al Decameron.”
- Concetta Di Franza, (Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’): ‘“Poetas non esse mendaces.’ L’autore
come poeta e il rapporto verità-finzione nella
riflessione estetica del Boccaccio.”
- Gennaro Ferrante: “Boccaccio plasma Dante:
costruzione di un'idea di autore.”
- Alessia Ronchetti (University of Cambridge), ‘The
Desire to Become Two: Gendering Authorial
Selves in the Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta.”
11.15-12.15: Keynote Speaker
Professor Brian Richardson (University of Leeds)
“Locating the Corbaccio in Early Modern Europe.”
Session 4 – 1:00-3:00
Session 4a: Florence between the Fourteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Early
Reception, Literary Canon and Philology
- Elisabetta Guerrieri (University of Perugia): “Il
Paradiso degli Alberti di Giovanni Gherardi:
continuità e discontinuità con il modello decameroniano.”
- Nicoletta Marcelli (Villa I Tatti): “Boccaccio and
the Canon before Bembo’s Prose della volgar lingua.”
- Antonio Corsaro (University of Urbino): “Boccaccio e la filologia dei testi volgari a Firenze nel
Cinquecento.”
- Chelsea Pomponio (University of Pennsylvania):
“Troy, Rome, Certaldo? Boccaccio’s Adaptation
of the Legend of Florence.”
Session 4b: Boccaccio as Mediator of Classics: Livy, Dante, Cavalcanti
- Martin Eisner (Duke University): “Boccaccio’s
Cavalcanti between Invention and Transcription.”
- Laura Banella (Università di Padova): “Soddisfare l’appetito dell’autore”: l’intervento del
Boccaccio sulla Vita nova e la sua ricezione tra i
secoli XIV e XVI.”
- Rino Modonutti (Università di Padova): “Giovanni Boccaccio tra biografia e accessus: la Vita
di Livio sullo sfondo del Trattatello in laude di
Dante.”
- Cosimo Burgassi: (OVI, CNR, Firenze): “Vecchie
questioni, nuovi strumenti: la traduzione dei
classici attribuita a Boccaccio alla luce del
Dizionario dei volgarizzamenti (DiVo).”
Session 5 – 3:30-4:45
Session 5a: Boccaccio and Translation
- Simone Ventura (University of Barcelona): “The
Historia Griseldis in the 1429 Catalan Translation of the Decameron.”
- Elizabeth L’Estrange (University of Birmingham): “‘Translaté de vieil langaige et prose en
nouveau et rime’: Anne de Graville’s Beau
roman and Rewriting Boccaccio for the French
Court.”
- Linda Torresin (Università Ca’ Foscari): “K.
Batjuskov, traduttore di Boccaccio.”
Session 5b: New Perspectives on the Decameron
- Stefano Jossa (University of London, Royal Holloway): ““Non giucando… ma novellando’: story-
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telling as community building in Boccaccio’s Decameron.”
- Heather Webb (University of Cambridge): “Maps
and Diagrams for a Spatial reading of the Decameron.”
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BRITISH LIBRARY
Boccaccio & Company: an Introduction to the Decameron
Monday 30 September 10.00-16.00.
To mark the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio’s birth, specialists talked on various aspects of this
multifaceted and highly entertaining book – its historical and cultural background, the stories it
includes and their narrative framework, its reputation for licentiousness as well as the influence
it has had on other literatures and the arts in general since it first appeared. During the day, it also
was possible to visit a display in the Ritblat Gallery of books and manuscripts from the British Library collections relating to Boccaccio. The day ended with a John Coffin Trust Lecture and Reading, free and open to all, given by Marina Warner on ‘Voices Without Borders: Travelling Tales &
Literary Heritage’ at Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, from 17.00 to 19.00.
Detailed programme:
10.00 – 12.15: The Decameron and its background
10.00 – 10.05: Welcome
10.05 – 11.00: Guyda Armstrong (University of Manchester): “Introduction to Boccaccio and the
Decameron.” / Stephen Milner (University of Manchester): “Trust me. I’m an author. Boccaccio’s
Decameron and the Rhetoric of Ambiguity.”
11.20 – 12.10: Barry Taylor (British Library): “Narrative Frames before and after the Decameron” /
Rhiannon Daniels (University of Bristol): “Boccaccio’s Readers”
13.45 – 16.00: The Decameron: uses and abuses
13.45 – 14.35: Kenneth Clarke (University of York): “The Decameron and English Literature” / Chris
Michaelides (British Library): “The Decameron in Art, from Botticelli to Chagall.”
14.55 – 15.45 Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway): “The Decameron and Censorship – ‘by many means
and ruses’” / Stefano Jossa (Royal Holloway): “Politics and Community in Boccaccio’s Decameron.”
17:00-19:00: John Coffin Trust Lecture and Reading,
Marina Warner: “Voices Without Borders: Travelling Tales & Literary Heritage”
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CELEBRATING GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO (1313-1375) AT 700.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 7TH, 4:30-7:30 PM
CHICAGO HALL, FOREIGN LANGUAGES RESOURCE CENTER (FLRC).
Celebrating the 700 anniversary of Giovanni Boccaccio’s birth with lectures,
music, refreshment, and a students’ creative projects exhibition, titled “The
Transformative Power of the Decameron.”
Event Participants include: Prof. Yvonne Elet (Vassar College): “On Famous Women in Italian
Renaissance Art”; Prof. Marco Veglia (Università di Bologna): “Boccaccio and the Lord of the
Rings: Decameron I,3”; and the Vassar Student Vocal Ensemble, Drew Minter Director (Songs of
Boccaccio’s Day).
Sponsored by the Italian Department, and the Departments of Music, English, and Religion.
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A BOCCACCIAN RENAISSANCE
A JOINT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY AND STANFORD UNIVERSITY
CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 24-26, 2013. ORGANIZERS: ALBERT R. ASCOLI AND DAVID LUMMUS
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OCTOBER 24, 2013 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Opening Reception, 330 Wheeler Hall
Sponsored by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of San Francisco.
6:30 - 8:30 pm: Plenary Panel, Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall (Chair: Albert Ascoli)
Victoria Kirkham (University of Pennsylvania), In the Labyrinth of Boccaccio’s Iconography
Brian Richardson (University of Leeds), “Per ammaestramento et commodo”: The Renaissance
Presentation of Boccaccio’s Texts as Models of Language and Conduct
James Hankins (Harvard University), Boccaccio and the Politics of Virtue
OCTOBER 25, 2013 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
3335 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley
9:15 - 11 am: Boccaccio Rinascimentale (Chair: David Lummus)
Martin Eisner (Duke University), Con le Muse in Parnaso: Boccaccio’s Ideas of Cultural Renaissance
between Dante and Petrarch
Jonathan Combs-Schilling (Ohio State University), Under the Cover of a Green Book: Boccaccio’s
Pastoral Project
Justin Steinberg (University of Chicago), Mimesis on Trial: Boccaccio’s Realism and the Inquisition
11:15 am - 1:00 pm: Boccaccio and the vernacular (Chair: Steven Botterill)
Simon Gilson (University of Warwick), Vernacularizing the Latin Boccaccio in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy
James Kriesel (Colby College), Petrarch’s Griselda and Boccaccio’s Elegiac Decameron
Michael Sherberg (Washington University), Along the Path of Disaster: the Decameron and Bembo’s
Prose
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Lunch Break
2:30 - 4:45 pm: Boccaccio and Latinity (Chair: Natalie Cleaver)
Susanna Barsella (Fordham University), Boccaccio, Tyranny, and the Education of Princes. Dec. X.10,
De Casibus Virorum Illustrium XXIV, and Humanist Literature on Tyranny
Timothy Kircher (Guilford College), Boccaccio’s Humanist Brigata: Reading the Decameron in the
Quattrocento
James Coleman (Johns Hopkins University), Boccaccio's Demogorgon and Renaissance Platonism
Ted Cachey (University of Notre Dame), Boccaccio and Petrarch Between Text and Territory
OCTOBER 26, 2013 | 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University
9:00 - 11:15 am: Boccaccio, art, and artists (Chair: Morten Steen Hansen)
Johannes Bartuschat (University of Zurich), Forms of Vision and the Visual in Boccaccio and their
Renaissance Reception
Marco Ruffini (Northwestern University), Boccaccio and the Mimetic Image
Kristin Philips-Court (University of Wisconsin, Madison), ‘e altre cose assai, tutte stravaganti’: Alatiel, Fra Filippo, e la sventurata Giulietta
Susan Gaylard (University of Washington), The Boccaccian Displacement: Women in Illustrated Print
Biographies
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11:30 am - 1:15 pm: Boccaccio in the Renaissance—Italy (Chair: Elizabeth Coggeshall)
Eleonora Stoppino (University of Illinois), Deadly Companions: Animal Contagion between Boccaccio
and Fracastoro
Ronald Martinez (Brown University), The Decameron at the Dawn of Italian Renaissance Drama
Rhiannon Daniels (University of Bristol), Boccaccio and His Biographies
1:15 pm - 2:30 pm: Lunch Break
2:30 pm - 4:45 pm: Boccaccio in the Renaissance—The World Elsewhere (Chair: Michael Wyatt)
Ignacio Navarrete (University of California, Berkeley), Boccaccio's Fiammetta and Grimalte y
Gradisa by Juan de Flores
Marc Schachter (University of Oregon), Mediating Boccace: 'translatio amoris' and the Decameron in
Renaissance France
Heather James (University of Southern California), Shakespeare's Italian loves: Boccaccio versus Petrarch
Janet Smarr (University of California, San Diego), Regendering Griselda on the London Stage
5:00 - 6:00 pm: Roundtable: A Boccaccian Renaissance? (Chair: David Lummus)
Participants: Rhiannon Daniels, Martin Eisner, Ignacio Navarrete, Michael Sherberg, and Janet Smarr
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
XI Jornadas de Estudios Italianos
dedicadas a
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75)
influencia y presencia
28 de octubre - 1 de noviembre 2013
Aula Magna - Salón de Actos
Cátedra Extaordinaria Italo Calvino
Lunes 28 de octubre
10:00 - 11:00 Inauguración con la presencia
de la Dra. Gloria Villegas, Directora de la
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; y del Dr. Gianni
Vinciguerra, Agregado Cultural de la
Embajada de Italia en México.
11:30 - 12:15 Plenaria
Mariapia Lamberti - Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras, unam
Giovanni Boccaccio entre Medioevo y
Renacimiento
Presenta: Sergio Rincón
12:30 - 13:45 Mesa I
Giovanni Boccaccio: autor multifacético
- Mayerín Bello - Universidad de La Habana
El amistoso diálogo entre el Ingenio y la
Fortuna en el Decamerón de Boccaccio
- Fernando Ibarra - Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras, unam
Del preceptor inclitus al amicus: Boccaccio
y Petrarca entre la admiración y la
amistad
- Alejandro Higashi - Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana, Iztapalapa
Personaje ejemplar y público en el De
mulieribus claris de Boccaccio
Modera: Sabina Longhitano
17:00 - 18:00 Mesa II
Influencias de Boccaccio-1
- Claudia Ruiz - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras,
unam
Boccaccio en Francia
- Patricia Peterle - Universidade Federal de
Santa Catarina
Boccaccio in Brasile: dalle lezioni di
Giuseppe Ungaretti alle traduzioni del
Decameron
Modera: Fernando Ibarra
18:15 - 19:30 Mesa III
Boccaccio en las artes
- Rosina Martucci - Università di Salerno
Il “novellar figurando”: la forza
irresistibile dell’amore e della vitalità fra
codici e miniature francesi del Decameron
- Óscar Molina - unam
“La Giornata prima e l’ultima giornata”. El
Decameron y las costumbres funerarias
medievales: un acercamiento desde
la historia del arte
- Nery López - Universidad de las Artes,
Puebla
Nastagio degli Onesti: una novella del
Decameron nell’arte di Botticelli
Modera: Fernando Pérez
Martes 29 de octubre
9:45 - 11:00 Mesa IV
Boccaccio en Inglaterra
- Rosario Faraudo - Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras, unam
Boccaccio peregrina hasta Inglaterra
- Claudia Lucotti - Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras, unam
- De armas y amores en Boccaccio y
Chaucer
Lucía Rodríguez - Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras, unam:
- “Of fair Creisseid and worthieTroylus”:
los prólogos en Boccaccio, Chaucer y
Henryson
Modera: Mario Murgia
11:15 - 12:30 Mesa V
Boccaccio y sus obras
- Fernando Pérez - Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras, unam
Fiammetta: del amor ideal al deseo real.
La mujer ya no como puro objeto de
inspiración amorosa, sino como agente
que actúa y sufre por amor
- Luis Alberto López Guerra
El Demogorgón como alegoría del origen
de la religión en la obra La genealogía de
los dioses paganos de Giovanni Boccaccio
- José Luis Bernal - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, unam
El Trattatello in laude di Dante, sus
contenidos, méritos y límites. Notas para
una aproximación al Boccaccio crítico
Modera: Jorge Alberto Aguayo
16:30 - 17:45 Mesa VIII
El Decamerón-1
- José Luis Quezada - Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras, unam
La Historia Griseldis de Petrarca.
¿Culminación ideal de una amistad
literaria?
- Sharon Suárez – Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras, unam
El Decameron bajo la mirada de la
Contrarreforma: un ejemplo de censura en
nombres y situaciones en tres novelle de la
edición Giunti de 1573
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- Stefania Giovando - Liceo Classico “Lorenzo
Costa”, La Spezia
Amore, rapporto tra i sessi e centralità
della figura femminile nel Decameron
Modera: Montserrat Mira
18:00 - 19:15 Mesa IX
- Aurelio González - El Colegio de México
Boccaccio y Lope: El anzuelo de Fenisa y el
ingenio femenino
- María Stoopen - Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras, unam
Cervantes seguidor de Boccaccio: hacia las
Novelas ejemplares
- Raúl Torres - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras,
unam
Goethe y Boccaccio. Decameron V, 9 y el
fragmento dramático Der Falke
Modera: José Luis Bernal
Miércoles 30 de octubre
10:30 - 12:00 Mesa XII
El Decamerón-2
- Gisella Corni - Collegio Italo-Peruviano
“Antonio Raimondi”, La Molina, Lima
Libertà di opinione, un diritto dalle radici
profonde. Conseguenzedella peste in
Boccaccio
- Fabiano Dalla Bona - Universidade Federal
de Rio de Janeiro
Le narrative medioevali del coeur mangé e
la novella di Boccaccio (Giornata IV, 9)
Rita Verdirame - Università di Catania
- Incontri con l’altro: il Saladino di
Boccaccio
Modera: Sergio Rincón
La mesa comprende una proyección de un
espectáculo sobre Saladino de los “Pupi”
sicilianos
12:15 - 13:30 Mesa XIII
- Sabina Longhitano - Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras, unam
Boccaccio come fonte dell’Orlando Furioso
- Lucilla Bonavita - Università degli Studi di
Roma, Tor Vergata
L’influenza della novella 7 e 8 della
seconda giornata del Decamerone nei
racconti di edificazione popolare e nella
letteratura d’appendice dell’Ottocento
- Renée Anne Poulin - Baylor University,
Waco, Texas
“Qualche aggiunta, ò variatione per
maggior novità”: un adattamento
operistico della novella V, 9 del
Decameron
Modera: Rita Verdirame
16:30-17:30 Plenaria
Carla De Bellis - Università di Roma “La
Sapienza”
Boccaccio nello specchio del Cinquecento:
gli esiti del classicismo tra le dispute
sull’imitazione e la riflessione delle Prose
di Pietro Bembo
Presenta: Fernando Ibarra
17:45 Cinema
Boccaccio 70 de Mario Monicelli, Federico
Fellini, Luchino Visconti y Vittorio de Sica,
basada en una idea de Cesare Zavattini
(1962). Presenta: Mariapia Lamberti
Jueves 31 octubre
10:30 -11:45 Mesa XVI
El Decamerón-3
- Alessio Lodes - Collegio Italo-Peruviano
“Antonio Rimondi”, La Molina, Lima
Il Decameron come epopea del mercante e
maschera del teatro greco e latino
- Jorge Alberto Aguayo - Facultad de Filosofía
y Letras, unam
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Recuperación y permanencia del cuerpo
en Decameron
- Jorge Alcázar - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
unam
Ser Ciappelletto y Bajtín en su lecho de
muerte
Modera: Israel Mireles
12:00 - 12:30 José Blanco - Universidad
Santo Tomás, Santiagode Chile
Giovanni Boccaccio in Spagna a partire
dalla tradizione testuale delle sue opere
12:30 - 13:00 Isabel Hernández Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Boccaccio en Alemania. El desconocido
Decamerón alemán: Goethe, sus
Conversaciones de emigrados alemanes y
las consecuencias
16:30-17:30 Mesa XIX
La literatura en la didáctica
María Meztli Ávila - Escuela Nacional
Preparatoria
Boccaccio en clase: la experiencia de
lectura del Decamerón en la Escuela
Nacional Preparatoria
Jaime Magos - Universidad Autónoma de
Querétaro
La literatura es para todos
Modera: Franca Bizzoni
18:30 Cinema
Decameron de Pier Paolo Pasolini (1971).
Presenta: Raffaella De Antonellis
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Simposio Internazionale Giovanni Boccaccio: tra innovazione e ricerca
Universidade de São Paulo – Brazil
November 5-6, 2013
Novembre 5, 2013
10:00 – 12:00:
- Prof. Renzo Bragantini (Università “La Sapienza” di Roma):
Splendore della verità, ombre della realtà: Boccaccio riscrive Dante
14:20 – 16:20
- Tavola rotunda: Le Traduzioni del Decameron in Brasile
Maurício Santana Dias (DLM-FFLCH-USP)
Ivone Benedetti (tradutora do Decameron)
17:00 - 1:00
- Tavola rotunda: Boccaccio: Le altre opere
Pedro Heise (pós-doc da área de língua e literatura italiana – DLM-FFLCH–USP)
Talita Janine (Juliani Doutoranda – UNICAMP)
19:30 - 21:00
- Lucia Strappini (UNISTRASI- Siena)
Lo stoicismo letterario nel Decameron di Boccaccio
Novembre 6, 2013
10:00 – 1:00
- Prof. Mirko Tavoni (Università degli Studi di Pisa)
Il Dante di Boccaccio
14:30 – 16:30
- Tavola rotunda: Boccaccio alla UFRJ
Andrea Lombardi (docente UFRJ)
Flora de Paoli Faria (docente UFRJ)
17:00 – 18:50
- Tavola rotunda: Boccaccio e le altre arti
Luciano Migliaccio (FAU–USP)
Roberta Barni (DLM-USP)
19:30 - 21:00
- Elisabetta Menetti (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Alla ricerca del carattere degli italiani tra Boccaccio, Bandello e Machiavelli
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Armstrong, Guyda. The English Boccaccio: a History in Books. Toronto: Toronto
University Press, 2013.
Bàrberi Squarotti, Giorgio. Le donne al potere e altre interpretazioni. Boccaccio e
Ariosto. Lecce: Manni, 2011.
Boccaccio e i suoi lettori. Una lunga ricezione. Gian Mario Anselmi, Giovanni Baffetti,
Carlo Delcorno and Sebastiana Nobili, eds. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. Wayne A. Rebhorn, trans. New York: W. W.
Norton & Co., 2013.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Genealogy of the Pagan Gods. Vol. 1 (Books I-V). Jon Solomon, tr.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Rime. A c. di R. Leporatti. Firenze: Sismel, 2013.
Boccaccio in America. A c. di E. Filosa e M. Papio. Ravenna: Longo, 2012.
Boccaccio's Decameron: Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages. Special issue of Annali
d'Italianistica. D. Cervigni, ed. Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d'Italianistica, 2013.
Candido, Igor. Boccaccio umanista. Studi su Boccaccio e Apuleio. Ravenna: Longo,
2014.
Cavalieri, Raffaella. In viaggio con Boccaccio. Dall'oro delle ginestre di Certaldo ai profumi d'Oriente. Roma: Robin, 2013.
The Decameron. Third Day in Perspective. Francesco Ciabattoni and Pier Massimo
Forni, eds. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2014.
Kircher, Timothy. Living Well in Renaissance Italy. The Virtues of Humanism and the
Irony of Leon Battista Alberti. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies), 2012.
Paasche Grudin, Michaela and Robert Grudin. Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Rubini Messerli, Luisa. Boccaccio deutsch: Die Dekameron-Rezeption in der deutschen
Literatur (15. - 17. Jahrhundert). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012.
Schulze-Witzenrath, Elisabeth. Der gerettete Erzähler: Decameronrahmen und städtische Sprachkultur im italienischen Trecento. Tübingen: Francke, 2012.
Sherberg, Michael. The Governance of Friendship: Law and Gender in the Decameron.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011.
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members. Please consider sending items of significance, such as notes on work in progress, announcements of general interest and other similar tidbits to Elsa Filosa: elsa.
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Christopher Kleinhenz would similarly appreciate your assistance in his yearly compilation of
the North American Boccaccio Bibliography. Please send him Boccaccio-related citations
so that he may integrate them with his own findings. Email: ckleinhe@wisc.edu
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Dues News!!! If you have not yet paid your annual dues for 2013 ($25 regular member, and
possibly a donation to the Lecturae Boccaccii), please send your check payable to American
Boccaccio Association to:
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Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures
Fordham University, Faber Hall 562
441 East Fordham Road
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