Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė is a third-year PhD student in Italian at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Her thesis focuses on Dante’s unorthodox understanding of the senses in visionary and dream experience, contextualising Dante’s dream writing in relation to theologically inflected late medieval vision genre more generally. In her talk for the Crossing Borders, Contesting Boundaries podcast series she explores the depiction of dreaming in Dante’s Purgatorio 9 as an experience that enables the crossing of physical and conceptual boundaries.

Music: Aitua, 'Blind Fire', from the album Elements. Used with the kind permission of the artist. All rights reserved.