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Dante for Everyone – Book presentation by Prof. Alessandro Barbero

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

The Dublin Dante Summer School 2021 concludes on June 24.

In the context of the evening encounters ‘Dante for Everyone’, the Italian Institute is delighted to announce the participation of Prof. Alessandro Barbero (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro), who will present his book Dante (Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2020). Discussion in Italian.

Alessandro Barbero graduated in Medieval History in 1981, he then perfected his studies at the Scuola Normale in Pisa until 1984. University researcher since 1984, he became associate professor at the University of Eastern Piedmont in Vercelli in 1998, where he teaches Medieval History. He has published novels and many essays on history, not only medieval. With his debut novel, Bella vita e guerre altrui di Mr. Pyle gentiluomo, he won the Strega Prize in 1996. He collaborates with La Stampa and Tuttolibri, with the magazine “Medioevo”, and with television (“Superquark”) and radio programs (“Alle otto della sera”) of RAI. Among his commitments there is also the direction of the “History of Europe and the Mediterranean” of Salerno Editrice.

 

The recording of the event is available HERE

 

  • Organized by: TCD, UCD, IIC Dublino