Dante Lecture

The Center for Renaissance Studies Dante Lectures have been held each year since 2001, bringing Dante scholars from throughout the United States and Europe to the Newberry to present cutting-edge research.

From 1983 to 1997, multiple lectures were held each year under the title Lectura Dantis Newberrania. Parts of this series resulted in the two-volume book Lectura Dantis Newberryana, edited by Paolo Cherchi and Antonio C. Mastrobuono (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1988).

The Newberry’s Dante Lectures are cosponsored with the Devers Program in Dante Studies, University of Notre Dame, and the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago.

Past Dante Lectures