A conversation about the possibility to approach Dante’s texts from different cultures, ages, and languages in spite (and perhaps because) of its apparent distance from today’s world. Are adaptations and translations reliable instruments to experience a text that is certainly medieval, but has achieved a surprisingly solid afterlife? Is the plot (the “libretto”) of Dante’s Comedy the reason and the substance of our fascination for this masterpiece of world literature? How much of its music is actually available to non-Italian speakers? And, most of all, what do we talk about when we talk of Dante’s Comedy, and especially of Dante’s Inferno?
Catherine Dunne is an Irish writer, author ofover ten novelstranslated into several languages (including Italian). In 2013, she was awarded the Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction for the novel The Things We Know. She was recently shortlisted for the European Strega Prize for her novel The Way the Light Falls.
Paolo Di Paolo is an Italian writer and journalist from Rome. He is the author of several essays, novels, plays and children’s books, including a version of the Divine Comedy for kids. His novel Mandami tanta vita was shortlisted for the Strega Prize in 2013. He currently writes for the Italian newspapers L’Espresso and Repubblica and coordinates the Lezioni di Storia Festival by Editori Laterza in Rome.
In English.
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We are delighted to announce the launch of the first Dublin Dante Summer School (DDSS) which will run for three years, June 2019-June 2020-June 2021. 2021 will then mark the anniversary of Dante’s death with a special edition of our School. The project has received collaboration and financial support from Dublin Unesco City of Literature, the Italian Institute of Culture and the Italian Embassy in Dublin, The National University of Ireland, TCD Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, TCD School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, Trinity Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, UCD College of Arts and Humanities, The UCD Foundation for Italian Studies.
The launch of the first Irish Dante Summer School based in Dublin is meant to attract national and international attention to the Italian language, literature and culture through the study and teaching of Dante’s Divine Comedy, one of the poetic masterworks of Western culture.
The Summer School will consist of 4 days with morning lectures and afternoon workshops held by internationally renowned scholars in the field of Dante studies and IIC, TCD, UCD members of staff. Students and scholars from Ireland, the UK, Europe and the US will participate, too. The theme of this year is Dante’s Inferno: The Medieval Text and its Afterlife.
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