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º£½ÇÉçÇø Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy

Dante vertical readings

º£½ÇÉçÇø Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy: A four year workshop and lecture programme

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Beginning 18 October 2012 and continuing over four years, a team of Dante experts from the U.K. and abroad are carrying out a series of public lectures on the Comedy that explore the 'vertical' connections between cantos of the same number across all three canticles. This is the first time that this method of reading (a method that has been discussed by Dante scholars and executed very successfully in studies of single cantos) will be systematically employed to tackle the entire poem.

We ask your help in this endeavour. Please come along to the public lectures and bring friends, students, and colleagues. And please join in the discussions after the lectures. For those who are interested, workshops on single cantos will take place in the afternoons preceding the lectures.

We have partnered with the Dante Centres at Leeds and Notre Dame for this project; workshops will be led alternately by each of those centres and connected by teleconference. The project has been funded by the Department of Italian, º£½ÇÉçÇø, and by Trinity College. We are also grateful to the Master and Fellows of Trinity College for the use of the Winstanley Theatre.

The Public Lectures are at 6pm in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, º£½ÇÉçÇø

Workshops will be held at 4.30pm, also in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre.

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Programme for Lent Term 2016Ìý

Thursday 21st January
InfernoÌýXXX,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXXX,ÌýParadisoÌýXXX': Prof. Piero Boitani (University of Rome, La Sapienza)

Thursday 4th February
InfernoÌýXXXI,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXXXI,ÌýParadisoÌýXXXI': Dr Catherine Pickstock (º£½ÇÉçÇø)

Thursday 18th February
InfernoÌýXXXII,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXXXII,ÌýParadisoÌýXXXII': Prof. David Ford (º£½ÇÉçÇø)
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Programme for Easter Term 2016Ìý

Thursday 21st April
InfernoÌýXXXIII,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXXXIII,ÌýParadisoÌýXXXIII': Prof. Rev. Rowan Williams (º£½ÇÉçÇø)

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Earlier lectures in the Vertical Readings cycle

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Academic Year 2015-16

Programme for Michaelmas Term 2015Ìý

Thursday 15th October
InfernoÌýXXVII,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXXVII,ÌýParadisoÌýXXVII': Prof. Ronald Martinez (Brown University)

Thursday 29th October
InfernoÌýXXVIII,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXXVIII,ÌýParadisoÌýXXVIII': Prof. Ted Cachey (University of Notre Dame)

Thursday 12th November
InfernoÌýXXIX,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXXIX,ÌýParadisoÌýXXIX': Prof. John Took (University College London)

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Academic Year 2014-15

Programme for Easter Term 2015Ìý

Thursday 23rd April
'True Desire:ÌýInfernoÌýXXIV,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXXIV,ÌýParadisoÌýXXIV': Prof. Janet Soskice (º£½ÇÉçÇø)

Thursday 7th May
'Changes:ÌýInfernoÌýXXV,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXXV,ÌýParadisoÌýXXV': Dr George Ferzoco (University of Bristol)

Thursday 21st May
'The Poetry of Trespassing:ÌýInfernoÌýXXVI,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXXVI,ÌýParadisoÌýXXVI': Dr Elena Lombardi (University of Oxford)
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Programme for Lent Term 2015Ìý

Thursday 29th January
InfernoÌýXXI,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXXI,ÌýParadisoÌýXXI: Prof. Corinna Salvadori Lonergan (Trinity College, Dublin)

Thursday 12th February
InfernoÌýXXII,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXXII,ÌýParadisoÌýXXII: Prof. Giuseppe Ledda (University of Bologna)

Thursday 26th February
InfernoÌýXXIII,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXXIII,ÌýParadisoÌýXXIII: Prof. Peter Hawkins (University of Yale)
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Programme for Michaelmas Term 2014Ìý

Thursday 23rd October
InfernoÌýXVIII,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXVIII,ÌýParadisoÌýXVIII: Dr Anne Leone (University of Notre Dame)

Thursday 13th November
InfernoÌýXIX,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXIX,ÌýParadisoÌýXIX: Dr Ambrogio Camozzi (º£½ÇÉçÇø)

Thursday 27th November
InfernoÌýXX,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXX,ÌýParadisoÌýXX: Dr Claudia Rossignoli (University of St Andrews)
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Academic Year 2013-14

Programme for Easter Term 2014Ìý

Thursday 1st May
InfernoÌýXV,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXV,ÌýParadisoÌýXV: SIMONE MARCHESI

Thursday 15th May
InfernoÌýXVI,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXVI,ÌýParadisoÌýXVI: MANUELE GRAGNOLATI

Thursday 29th May
InfernoÌýXVII,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXVII,ÌýParadisoÌýXVII: TRISTAN KAY

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Programme for Lent Term 2014Ìý

Thursday 30th January
InfernoÌýXII,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXII,ÌýParadisoÌýXII: CHRISTIAN MOEVS

Thursday 13th February
InfernoÌýXIII,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXIII,ÌýParadisoÌýXIII: ROBERT WILSON

Thursday 27th February
InfernoÌýXIV,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXIV,ÌýParadisoÌýXIV: CATHERINE KEEN

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Programme for Michaelmas Term 2013Ìý

Thursday 31st October
InfernoÌýIX,ÌýPurgatorioÌýIX,ÌýParadisoÌýIX: ZYGMUNT BARANSKI

Thursday 7th November
InfernoÌýX,ÌýPurgatorioÌýX,ÌýParadisoÌýX: KENNETH CLARKE

Thursday 21st November
InfernoÌýXI,ÌýPurgatorioÌýXI,ÌýParadisoÌýXI: PAOLA NASTI


Academic Year 2012-13

Programme for Easter Term 2013Ìý

Thursday 2nd May
InfernoÌýVII,ÌýPurgatorioÌýVII,ÌýParadisoÌýVII: SIMON GILSON

Thursday 16th May
InfernoÌýVIII,ÌýPurgatorioÌýVIII,ÌýParadisoÌýVIII: BRENDA DEEN SCHILDGEN

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Programme for Lent Term 2013Ìý

Thursday 31st January
InfernoÌýIV,ÌýPurgatorioÌýIV,ÌýParadisoÌýIV: JOHN MARENBON

Thursday 14th February
InfernoÌýV,ÌýPurgatorioÌýV,ÌýParadisoÌýV: ROBIN KIRKPATRICK

Thursday 28th February
InfernoÌýVI,ÌýPurgatorioÌýVI,ÌýParadisoÌýVI: CLARE HONESS

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Programme for Michaelmas Term 2012Ìý

Thursday 18th October
InfernoÌýI,ÌýPurgatorioÌýI,ÌýParadisoÌýI: GEORGE CORBETT and HEATHER WEBB

Thursday 8th November
InfernoÌýII,ÌýPurgatorioÌýII,ÌýParadisoÌýII: MATTHEW TREHERNE

Thursday 22nd November
InfernoÌýIII,ÌýPurgatorioÌýIII,ÌýParadisoÌýIII: VITTORIO MONTEMAGGI

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