2025 Symposium

Dante and Money

2025 Annual Symposium of The Dante Society of America

Casa ltaliana Zerilli-Marimo and the Department of Italian Studies, New York University

April 10-11, 2025

Organized by Alison Cornish, NYU and Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University

[click here to download the PDF flyer]

Preliminary Program

All events at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, 24 West 12th St., New York, NY

Thursday, April 10
6:30pm
Keynote: Giacomo Todeschini, University of Trieste: "Against or According to Nature: Money as circulating humor or aposteme in Dante's representation of the medieval financial revolution"

Friday, April 11
9:30am
Welcome Coffee

10:30am-12:30pm
First panel
Filippo Petricca, Indiana University: "Faith, Debt, Trust"
Paola Nasti, Northwestern University: "Coins, Pigs, and Saints: Dante and the Economy of the Desert"
Anne C. Leone, Syracuse University: "Coins and Conception, Avarice and Fertility"

Lunch Break

2:00-4:00pm
Second panel
Sara E. Diaz, Fairfield University: "lgnota ricchezza. Dante's Franciscan Patrimony"
Kristina M. Olson, George Mason University: "By the Sweat of Their Brow: The subiti guadagni of Inferno 16"
Antonio Montefusco, Universite de Lorraine "From the 'new people' to the 'sudden gains'"

4:30pm
Keynote: Alan Stahl, Princeton University"Coinage and Money in the Age of Dante"

5:30-7:30pm
Reception