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Boccaccio Fest

Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester

This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the University of Rochester Master's Program in Literary Translation (MALTS) and the Lisio Professorship in Italian.

Agenda

Morning: 10 a.m. – Noon

“Boccaccio and the Art of Literary Translation,” featuring a Conversation with Franziska Meier, Biographer of Boccaccio and Luis Ruby, Translator of the Decameron in German.

Afternoon: 2:15 – 5 p.m.

“The Decameron on Stage,” a dramatized reading of some of Boccaccio’s most amusing stories featuring student, staff, and faculty readers.