The Italian Institute of Culture in Dublin and the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at Trinity College Dublin are delighted to invite you to a two-day event on the occasion of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 100th birth anniversary.
On Thursday 3rd November at 5.30pm, the film “Il Decameron” (1971) directed by P.P. Pasolini will be screened in the Pavilion Hall of the Italian Institute of Culture (in Italian with English subtitles).
An introduction given by Igor Candido, Head of Italian Department at Trinity College Dublin, will preceed the screening.
Following the movie screening there will be a wine reception.
BIO
Igor Candido is Assistant Professor/ Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. He holds two doctoral degrees in Italian literature, a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University (2011) and a Dr.Phil. from the University of Turin, Italy (2009). In 2013-2014 he was the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship to conduct research at Freie Universität Berlin. He has lectured and taught in Italy, the US, Germany, Ireland and written on Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Poliziano, Emerson, and Longfellow. He has provided the critical edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s translation of Dante’s Vita nuova (Aragno editore, 2012) as well as a monograph on Boccaccio as reader and imitator of Apuleius of Madauros (Boccaccio umanista. Studi su Boccaccio e Apuleio, Longo editore, 2014). He has just finished editing a volume titled Petrarch and Boccaccio. The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World (Walter De Gruyter, 2018) and is currently working on a new commented edition of Petrarch’s The Life of Solitude (Toronto University Press, under contract). He is also editing a special issue of Digital Philology (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019-20). His new research project is tentatively titled The Prehistory of the Novel. Studies in the Origins and Silent Transmission of Western Narrative Fiction. He is one of the editors of: Lettere italiane, Griseldaonline, and Archivio Novellistico Italiano; he collaborates with Italian and American journals such as “L’Indice dei libri del mese” and “Modern Language Notes”.
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