Past Lectures
Dante and the Project of Translation
What Is So New about Dante’s Vita nova?
Zygmunt Baranski, University of Notre Dame
Dante’s Grant of Safe-Conduct through Hell
Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago
This lecture explored Dante’s privilege to travel through Hell unharmed and why at certain points, namely at the gates of Dis (Inferno 8-9), this writ is not honored.
Circulating Melody: A Reading of Paradiso 23
Rachel Jacoff, Wellesley College
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Images of Nature in Dante’s Commedia
The Perils of Entering Dante’s Paradise
Christian Moevs, University of Notre Dame
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Dante’s Priscian, or Grammatical Insemination
Gary Cestaro, DePaul University
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Dante the Abolitionist: African-American Appropriations of the Italian Poet in the Nineteenth Century
Dennis Looney, University of Pittsburgh
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Reading from Their Translation of Dante’s Inferno
Robert Hollander, Princeton University
Jean Hollander, The College of New Jersey
Phenomenology of a Strange Passion
Roberta de Monticello, University of Geneva
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A New Source for Dante’s Ulysses
Robert Hollander, Princeton University
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Access to Authority: Dante in the Epistle to Cangrande
Albert Russell Ascoli, Northwestern University (now at the University of California, Berkeley)
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Du Bellay’s Olive and the Site of Petrarch in Early Modern Print
William Kennedy, Cornell University
Fed by Fainter Flames: Pleiade Imitative Practice and the Petrarchist Canon
JoAnn DelaNeva, University of Notre Dame
Vernacular Literature and Printing in Renaissance Italy
Domenico De Robertis, University of Florence
Canonizing Dante: Printing, Reading, Collecting
Theodore Cachey, Jr., University of Notre Dame and Paul Gehl, Newberry Library
“Our bed is green!” Dante and Saint Bernard on the Institutional Church: “ectulus noster floridus”
The First Canto of the Divine Comedy
Franco Ferrucci, Rutgers University
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Dante the Lyric Poet: The Vita Nuova, the Convivio, and the Divine Comedy
Regina Psaki, University of Oregon
Zygmunt C. Baranski, University of Reading (now at University of Notre Dame)
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Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Cristina Grau, University of Valencia
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Lino Pertile, University of Edinburg (now at Harvard University)
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Frank Masciandaro, Kent State University (now at the University of Connecticut)
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Teodolinda Barolini, University of New York (now at Columbia University)
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Ricardo Quinones, Claremont McKenna College
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Dante Della Terza, Harvard University
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Robert Hollander, Princeton University
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Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo, University of Padua
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John Freccero, Stanford University (now at New York Unversity)
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Dante in English (Translating the Comedy)
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Allegory and Doctrine in Inferno 8 and 9
Amilcare Iannucci, University of Toronto
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Is “Journey to Beatrice” a Preparation for Sanctifying Grace?
Antonio C. Mastrobuono, University of Illinos at Chicago
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Thomas Aquinas and Siger of Brabant in Dante’s Paradiso
Louis LaFavia, Catholic University of America
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The Hermetic Vein in Dante’s Commedia
Paolo Valesio, Yale University (now at Columbia University)
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Dante’s Hardened Heart: The Cocito Cantos
Lawrence Baldassaro, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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The Eunoe and the Regaining of the Last Good
Dino Cervigni, University of Notre Dame (now at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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Logic and Power in Dante
Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University
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Esto visibile parlare: A Synaesthetic Approach to Purgatorio 10, 55-63
Gino Casagrande, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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If the Skies Were Paper: Dante’s Cranes
Kenneth Knoespel, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Francesca and the Language of Desire
Michelangelo Picone, McGill University
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The Structural Leit-motif of Maturation in the Commedia
David Carozza, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Il cantor dei bucolici carmi: The Influence of Virgilian Pastoral on Dante’s Depiction of Earthly Paradise
Caron Cioffi, University of Chicago
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What Statius Meant for Dante
Winthrop Wetherbee, University of Chicago
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Femmina e Donna Santa: Dante’s Second Dream
Dino Cervigni, University of Notre Dame, (now at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The Cantos of Statius
Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Saint Francis and Dante
Vitorre Branca, University of Padua
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The Roman Emperors in the Divine Comedy
Nicolae Illiescu, Harvard University
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Statius, Dante, and Virgil: an Unusual Trinity
Christopher Kleinheinz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Dante and the Tradition of the Two Beatitudes
Mario Trovato, Northwestern University
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Purgatorio 33.41: A darne tempo gia stele propinque
Antonio Mastrobuono, University of Illinois at Chicago
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