FYP: Dante Day 2017
“Currency, Wealth and Opulence in Dante’s Florence”
Saturday April 8th, 2017
1pm to 6pm
Reception to follow: KTS Lecture Hall, 2nd Floor New Academic Building, 6350 Coburg Road, Halifax
Session I
1pm to 1:40pm
Elizabeth Edwards: “Dante and the Florentine Florin”
1:40pm to 2:20pm
Neil Robertson: “Demonic Bankers: Dante and the Medieval Account of Usury”
2:20pm to 3pm
Thomas Curran: “Avarice: The Unity of all the Vices”
3 to 3:30pm
Coffee and Refreshments
Session II
3:30pm to 4:10pm
Jannette Vusich: “The Illustrated Comedy”
4:10pm to 4:50pm
Peter Bryson: “Beauty in Dante’s Tuscany”
4:50pm to 5:30pm
Gary Thorne: “Cimabue and Giotto in Dante’s Florence”
Coda: 5:30 to 6pm
William Barker: “Hell: Bosch and Bruegel”
