Session Details

Sunday, 27 December

28. Religious and Philosophical Approaches to Dante

3:30–4:45 p.m., Regency Ballroom C2, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature

Presiding: Christian Robert Moevs, Univ. of Notre Dame

1. “Relation of the Postcorporeal to the Postethical in Dante’s Ascension to Paradise,” Donald R. Wehrs, Auburn Univ., Auburn

2. “Language and Philosophy in Dante’s Convivio,” Beatrice Arduini, Tulane Univ.

3. “Theologia Ludens in Dante’s Vernacular Hunting: Nimrod, Adam, the Panther, and the Veltro,” Stefano Selenu, Brown Univ.

4. “Boccaccio’s Ulyssian Poetics,” James Kriesel, Univ. of Notre Dame

For abstracts, write to looney@pitt.edu.

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