In the year that marks the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, we are delighted to announce the launch of the third edition of the Dublin Dante Summer School. The project has received collaboration and support from 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, UCD College of Arts and Humanities, UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, The UCD Foundation for Italian Studies.
The 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.
This year’s online edition of the Dublin Dante Summer School will consist of four days with live lectures, workshops, and events with internationally renowned scholars in the field of Dante studies, international writers, performers and artists, 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 “Nel ciel che piú de la sua luce prende”: Dante’s Paradiso.
Organizers:
Igor Candido (TCD), Francesco Lucioli (UCD), the Italian Institute of Culture in Dublin
Dante School Officers:
Giulia Bonaldi, Gianluca Caccialupi, Felix Vanden Borre
On the 22nd of June, in the context of the evening encounters ‘Dante for Everyone’, the Italian Institute is delighted to announce the participation of Marco Martinelli, who will give a talk in Italian entitled Nel nome di Dante: la Divina Commedia e il teatro (In Dante’s name: the Divine Comedy and theatre).
Marco Martinelli, one of the most important directors and playwrights of the Italian theater, founded in 1983 the “Teatro delle Albe” together with Ermanna Montanari, Luigi Dadina and Marcella Nonni. Twenty-five years ago he gave birth to the “non-scuola”, a theatrical practice that puts adolescents in contact with the great classics of theater. He has published writings and articles in numerous magazines: Lo Straniero, doppiozero.com, Vita, Prove di drammaturgia; he has won numerous awards, including three times the Ubu Prize for dramaturgy, direction and the “non-scuola” project. In 2019 Ponte alle Grazie published his book Nel nome di Dante.
The recording of the event is available HERE