Arabic and Judaic Influences in and around Dante Alighieri Wednesday 11 - Thursday 12 September 2002

Website: http://www.geocities.com/DanteStudies

SPEAKERS

Giorgio Battistoni of Verona: "Dante and Impero"

CLAUDIA BOSCOLO of London: "The motif of conversion to Christianity in the Entrée d'Espagne (XIV Century)" 

ABDELKADER BOUTALEB of Glasgow: "Dantisti ed Orientalisti: Between faith and Reason: "Non c'è ricchezza comparabile con la ragione né povertà che è uguale all'ignoranza""

MASSIMO CAMPANINI of Milan: "A reflection on Dante, Averroes, the material intellect and...the discovery of immanence in contemporary thought"

ANN BRENER of Ben Gurion University: A paper on "Immanuello's Third Mahberet as a parody of Dante's Vita Nuova "

GUIDO CECCOLI of Strasbourg: "The theory of Asin Palacios from 1919 to the present day" 

Ed Emery of London: "Interrogating the Sonnet: Roots and origins" 

ALESSANDRO GROSSATO of Milan: "Il Califfato secondo il Sufismo, e la teoria dantesca del Santo Impero".

MICHAELA GRUDIN of Portland, Oregon: A paper on Boccaccio's Corbaccio: the influence of Averroes' thought on Dante and Boccaccio 

DIANA MODESTO of Sydney, Australia: "L'Albero che vive de la cima: a proposed origin for Dante's upside-down trees" 

ROBERTA MOROSINI of Winston-Salem, NC: "Fabulous' or literary Muhammad ?  The Roman de Mahomet  by Alexandre Du  Pont: from translation to adaptation"

Carlo Saccone of Padova

CLAUDIO SANTAMBROGIO of Amsterdam and Milan: "Pir meu cori allegrari... Romance, Germanic and Arabic Music at the Court of Frederick II" 

[This contribution will additionally feature a small concert illustrating the musical culture of the Court of Frederick II. The performers will be

Mikae Natsuyama          voice

Maria Cristina Cleary     medieval harps

Ricardo Rodriguez         medieval fiddles

Claudio Santambrogio   declamation and flutes]

BRENDA SCHILDGEN of the University of California: A paper on the Libro della Scala and the Divina Commedia 

JONATHAN SIGER of Cincinatti: "Between civilization and nation: the peculiar liminality of Immanuel Ben Solomon Romano" 

Sandra Debenedetti Stow of Ramat Gan, Israel: A paper on the Jewish links to Dante's "Quaestio de aqua et terra" 

JACEK SURZYN of the Silesian University, Katowice: "Influences of the Jewish-Arabic philosophical tradition in Dante's conception of the human soul"

MICHAEL SPATH of the University of Saint Francis, Indiana: "Dominican Theodicies, Dante and Islam" 

Ed Emery