Conference Program
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Tra Amici: A Symposium in Honor of Giuseppe Mazzotta
27–30 March 2008
University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, VA
Ackowledgements
Bob and Suzy Pence, Pend-Friedel Developers, Inc.
Karl and Audrey White, White Family Brands
Simpson Chair in English, Simpson Program in Medieval Studies, University of Mary Washington
Millicent Marcus, Professor of Italian and Chair, Department of Italian Language and Literature, Yale University
Santa Casciani, Associate Professor and Director, Bishop Anthony M.
Pilla Program in Italian American Studies, John Carroll University
Albert R. Ascoli, Terrill Distinguished Professor in Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Professor Theodore Cachey and the William and Katherine Devers
Program in Dante Studies, University of Notre Dame
Special Thanks
Richard V. Hurley, President, University of Mary Washington
Lula Fasold, University of Mary Washington
F. Gregory Stewart, Maya Mathur, Federico Schneider and Angela Gosetti-Murray John, University of Mary Washington
Virginia L. Bartlett, Sarah Lyon, Stone Ferrell, Ben Vigeant, Katie Lawrence, Tally Botzer, R. Tyler Babbie, Joseph Bersack, University of Mary Washington
Joseph T. McMahon [End Page sxiii]
Thursday 27 March 2008
6:00–8:00pm Reception
Friday 28 March 2008
8:00–9:00am Breakfast
9:00–10:00am Philosophy, Fortune and Rhetoric. Chair: Teresa Kennedy, University of Mary Washington
Robert Pence, Yale University: “The Ultimate Anachronism: Dante’s (Cicero’s) Explication of Cicero’s (God’s) Rhetoric in Inferno 3”
Brenda Wirkus, John Carroll University: “Reading Mazzotta Reading Poiesis: In Praise of Making”
Winthrop Wetherbee, Cornell University: “Phlegyas and Fortune”
10:00–10:15am Coffee
10:15–11:45am Dante I. Chair: Zygmunt Barański, Cambridge University Victoria Kirkham, University of Pennsylvania: “Contrapasso: The Long Wait to Inferno 28”
Daniel J. Ransom, University of Oklahoma: “Chaucer’s ‘Eyryssh Bestes’”
Bernardo Piciché, Virginia Commonwealth University: “Roman Law and the Symbology of Cato as a Guardian of Purgatory”
Dolores Frese, Notre Dame University: “Disclosing the Debt: Chaucer’s Trace of De vulgari in the First Fabliaux”
Zygmunt Barański, Cambridge University: “Dante’s Forgotten Canzone, Io sento sì d’Amor la gran possanza”
Laura Benedetti, Georgetown University: “Ignazio Silone, Celestine V and the Temptation of Worldly Power”
12:00–1:15pm Lunch with Provost Nina Mikhalevsky, University of Mary Washington
1:30–2:30pm Vico. Chair: Cecilia Miller, Wesleyan University Massimo Lollini, University of Oregon: “On Becoming Human: The Verum factum Principle and the Common Nature of the Nations in Vico’s New Science”
Pina Palma, Southern Connecticut State University: “Utopia in Vico and La Capria” [End Page sxiv]
Cecilia Miller, Wesleyan University: “Vico and Manzoni: Abstract Ideas, Material Culture and Political Change”
Walter Stephens, Johns Hopkins University: “Vico, Tasso and the Old Science”
2:30–2:45pm Coffee
2:45–4:15pm Boccaccio and Petrarch. Chair: Millicent Marcus, Yale University
Millicent Marcus, Yale University: “The Seriousness of Play in Boccaccio’s Decameron”
Jason Houston, University of Oklahoma: “Cra corvis: Letting the Crow Caw in the Corbaccio”
Angela Capodivacca, Yale University: “Petrarch’s Curiosity: The Chiasmus of Familiares 1:4 and 4:1”
Unn Falkeid, University of Oslo: “Petrarch’s Laura and the Critics”
Giuseppe Gazzola, Dickinson College: “Petrarch and the Worlds of Criticism”
4:15–4:30pm Coffee
4:30–6:00pm Classical Images. Chair: Angela Gosetti-Murray John, University of Mary Washington
Guy P. Raffa, University of Texas, Austin: “A Beautiful Friendship”
R. Allen Shoaf, University of Florida: “Vergil and Child”
Angela Gosetti-Murray John, University of Mary Washington: “‘Just as when Bees rest upon various flowers’: Homeric Allusions in Vergil and Dante”
Richard Lansing, Brandeis University: “Statius’s Homage to Vergil”
Michael Farina, Yale University: “Un restauro letterario: A New Sonnet by Torquato Tasso”
6:00–7:00pm Tour of the Gari Melchers Home and Studio
7:00–9:00pm Reception [End Page sxv]
Saturday 29 March 2008
8:00–9:00am Breakfast
9:00–10:30am Dante II. Chair: Warren Ginsberg, University of Oregon Gregory Stone, Louisiana State University: “Dante as Celestial Soul: The Final Verses of Paradiso in the Light of Avicenna’s Metaphysics”
Federico Schneider, University of Mary Washington: “Dante’s Divine Melodrama”
Virginia Jewiss, Yale University: “Dante as Peacemaker: The Heaven of the Moon in a German War Cemetery”
Steven Grossvogel, University of Georgia: “Justinian’s Jus et...
