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Italian I

Session 4 - Saturday 3:00-4:30pm
Ching Hall 254
Presiding Officer: 
Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto
Session Chair (if other than PO): 
Robert Buranello
  1. Boccaccio's Conversation with Dante: Defending Literature in the Frame of the Decameron. Martin Eisner, Duke University

    Unlike Dante’s addresses to the reader in the Comedy, Boccaccio’s authorial interventions in the Decameron have rarely been considered collectively, but this paper argues that these interventions constitute an equally decisive chapter in the development of Italian literary culture.

  2. Pietro Aretino and Palimpsestuous Porn. Robert Buranello, Chapman University

    This paper aims to explore the erotic and parodic patterns in Italian Renaissance erotic literature, particular in terms of the mutual indebtedness and reading strategies employed. Literary palimpsests are particularly discernable in this literature’s attempts to subvert and question power relations.

  3. Laura Battiferra: An Open Book. Cristina Varisco, Stanford University

    Although the pose and demeanor of the model initially attract the gaze of the viewer, the book becomes the essential point of analysis, prompting the viewer to ponder Battiferra’s exchange of poems with her portraitist and other poets of her circle.

  4. The (Fairy) Tale of the Nation: The Educational Process of "Making Italians". Bruno Grazioli, Smith College

    In my paper I intend to address the question of Italian national identity formation in XIX century historical novels, which display elements of medievalism and, I argue, can be analyzed from the point of view of children's literature.

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed