Report of Fourteenth Annual
South-Central Renaissance Conference
The fourteenth annual South-Central Renaissance Conference was held on the Texas A&M University campus at College Station, Texas, March 26 and 27, 1965, with President Frank Halstead of the University of Mississippi presiding.
The following papers were heard: "Macbeth and Dante's 'Inferno,' "Joseph Satin, Midwestern University; "Songbooks and the Miscellany Tradition," Edward Doughtie, Rice University; "The Red Cross Knight's Despair: A Psychological Study," Marilyn Georgas, Lamar State College; "An Editor's Reaction to More's Confutation of Tyndale," Brother Louis Schuster, St. Mary's University; "Manuel Chrysoloras and the Early Italian Renaissance," Ian Thompson, University of Oklahoma; "A New Look at Italian Humanism," William E. Painter, University of Tulsa; "Decamerone: Mirror of the 'New Man,"' Denes Monostory, Southwestern University; "The Great Mortality," Ariel Bar-Sela, MD, Baylor University College of Medicine ; "Dramatic Elements in Some Antecedents of Pilgrim's Progress," Robert G. Collmer, Wayland Baptist College; "A Theatrical Conception of The Divine Comedy," Frederick J. Hunter, University of Texas; "Sidney and Titian: Painting in the Arcadia and the Defence," Patrick G. Hogan, Mississippi State University; "The Tudor Dispossessed," F. E. Abernethy, Lamar State College; "Macbeth as Underdog," Archibald Henderson, Jr., University of Houston.
Father Walter J. Ong, S. J., St. Louis University, gave the dinner address: "Commonplaces, Typography, and the Transfonnation of Renaissance Culture."
The Aggie Players, under the direction of Vic Wiening, put on The Comedy of Errors for the entertainment of Conference members.
Officers for 1965-66 are : President, Panos Paul Morphos, Tulane University; Vice-President, Brother Louis Schuster, St. Mary's University; Executive Secretary-Treasurer, Helen S. Thomas, University of Houston; Continuing Executive Committee members, Marian Davis, University of Texas, Eleanor James, Texas Woman's University, Duane Roller, University of Oklahoma; New Executive Committee members, Ariel Bar-Sela, Baylor University College of Medicine, Cooper Mackin, Louisiana State University at New Orleans, and E. L. Rudolph, University of Arkansas; Regional delegates to RSA, Lorraine Sherley, Texas Christian University and Patrick G. Hogan, Mississippi State University; Southern Humanities Conference delegate, Frank Halstead, University of Mis- sissippi.
The fifteenth annual Conference will be held March 31, April 1-2, 1966, at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.