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The following is the original list of speakers from our
2002 seminar
"ARABIC AND JUDAIC
INFLUENCES IN AND AROUND
DANTE ALIGHIERI"
["Presenze arabe e ebraiche
'in' e 'intorno' a Dante Alighieri"]
held at the Dopolavoro Ferroviario, Venezia Santa
Lucia, Venice, Italy
on Wednesday and Thursday 11th and 12th September
2002
[Website: http://www.oocities.org/dantestudies]
SPEAKERS FOR
THE CONFERENCE
Contributors
include:
Giorgio Battistoni
of
Verona: "Dante and Impero"
[Click here for Summary of
Paper]
CLAUDIA BOSCOLO of London: "The motif of conversion to
Christianity in the Entrée d'Espagne (XIV Century)"
[Click here for Summary of
Paper]
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”"
[Click here for Summary of
Paper]
ANN
BRENER of Ben Gurion
University: A paper on "Immanuello's Third Mahberet as a parody
of Dante's Vita Nuova"
[Click here for
Summary of Paper]
MASSIMO CAMPANINI of Milan: "A reflection on Dante,
Averroes, the material intellect and...the discovery of immanence in
contemporary thought"
[Click here for
Summary of Paper]
GUIDO BELLATTI CECCOLI of Strasbourg: "The theory of Asin
Palacios from 1919 to the present day"
[Click here for Summary of
Paper]
Ed
Emery of London: "Interrogating
the Sonnet: Roots and origins"
[Click here for Summary of
Paper]
ALESSANDRO
GROSSATO of Padova: "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"
[Click here for
Summary of Paper]
ROBERTA MOROSINI of
Winston-Salem, NC: "A Mediterranean Image of Mohammed: Alexandre Du Pont’s Roman de Mahomet
in 13th-Century Italy"
[Click here for Summary of Paper]
Carlo Saccone
of
Padova: Not confirmed
CLAUDIO
SANTAMBROGIO of
Amsterdam and Milan: "Pir meu cori allegrari... Romance,
Germanic and Arabic Music at the Court of Frederick II"
[Click here for
Summary of Paper]
[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
[Click here for Summary of
Paper]
JONATHAN SIGER of Cincinatti: "Between
civilization and nation: the peculiar liminality of Immanuel Ben Solomon Romano"
[Click here for
Summary of Paper]
Sandra Debenedetti
Stow of Ramat Gan, Israel: A paper on
the Jewish links to Dante's "Quaestio de aqua et terra"
[Click here for Summary of Paper]
JACEK SURZYN of the Silesian University,
Katowice: "Influences of the Jewish-Arabic philosophical tradition in
Dante's conception of the human soul"
[Click here for
Summary of Paper]
MICHAEL SPATH of
the University of Saint Francis,
Indiana: "Dominican Theodicies, Dante and Islam"
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