Session Details

Thursday, 28 December

284. Exploration of Religion and Ethics

3:30–4:45 p.m., Jefferson, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature

Presiding: Sherry L. Roush, Penn State Univ., University Park

1. “De otio religioso: Petrarch and the Laicization of Western Monastic Asceticism,” Demetrio S. Yocum, Univ. of Notre Dame

2. “Femme est de molt legier corage: Women, Sexual Permissivity, and Polyandry in the ‘Roman de Mahomet’ (1258), Dante’s Commentaries to Inferno 28, and Fazio degli Uberti’s Dittamondo,” Roberta Morosini, Wake Forest Univ.

3. “La funzionalità psicologica, etica e sociologica della musica nell’ambito della cornice della raccolta di novelle di A. F. Grazzini,” Marco Cerocchi, Princeton Univ.

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