Session Details

Monday, 28 December

117. Boccaccio

8:30–9:45 a.m., Jefferson, Loews

Program arranged by the American Boccaccio Association

Presiding: Roberta Morosini, Wake Forest Univ.

1. “Doing Dirty Things with Words: The Transition from Sexual Word to Sexual Deed in Boccaccio’s Decameron,” Catherine Baxter, Univ. of Cambridge

2. “Theologia physica and Neoplatonic Notions in the Genealogie and the Esposizioni,” Michael Papio, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst

3. “Bianca de’ Rossi: Giuseppe Betussi’s Cinquecento Addendum to Giovanni Boccaccio’s De mulieribus claris and the Medieval Veneto,” Diana C. Silverman, Pace Univ., NY

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