'Civitas and love: looking backward from Paradiso VIII to Purgatorio VIII to Inferno VIII' - Prof BRENDA DEEN SCHILDGEN (UC Davis)

Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy - The Eights

Beginning 18 October and continuing over four years, a team of Dante experts from the U.K. and abroad will carry out a series of public lectures on the Comedy that explore the 'vertical' connections between cantos of the same number across all three canticles.  This is the first time that this method of reading (a method that has been discussed by Dante scholars and executed very successfully in studies of single cantos) will be systematically employed to tackle the entire poem.
The project has been funded for 2012-2013 by the Department of Italian at Cambridge and CIRN.
The Public Lectures are at 6pm in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge

Prof. Lord Rowan Williams of Oystermouth (University of Cambridge)

'Ice, Fire, and Holy Water: Inferno XXXIII and XXXIV, Purgatorio XXXIII, Paradiso XXXIII'

'Beauty and the BEast': Inferno XXXI, Purgatorio XXXI, Paradiso XXXI

Prof Piero Boitani (University La Sapienza, Rome)

'Brooks, Melting Snow, River of Light': Inferno XXX, Purgatorio XXX, Paradiso XXX

Prof John Took (University College London)

'Truth, Untruth and the Moment of Indwelling': Inferno XXIX, Purgatorio XXIX, Paradiso XXIX'

Prof. Theodore J. Cachey (University of Notre Dame)

Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy - The Eights

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