Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy

Beginning 18 October and continuing over four years, a team of Dante experts from the U.K. and abroad will carry 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. The project has been funded for 2012-2013 by the Department of Italian at Cambridge and CIRN. The Public Lectures are at 6pm in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge

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'Ice, Fire, and Holy Water: Inferno XXXIII and XXXIV, Purgatorio XXXIII, Paradiso XXXIII'

Prof. Lord Rowan Williams of Oystermouth (University of Cambridge)

04-26

41:06

'Beauty and the BEast': Inferno XXXI, Purgatorio XXXI, Paradiso XXXI

Prof Catherine Pickstock (Cambridge)

03-10

56:59

'Brooks, Melting Snow, River of Light': Inferno XXX, Purgatorio XXX, Paradiso XXX

Prof Piero Boitani (University La Sapienza, Rome)

03-10

53:24

'Truth, Untruth and the Moment of Indwelling': Inferno XXIX, Purgatorio XXIX, Paradiso XXIX'

Prof John Took (University College London)

03-10

59:55

‘Cosmographic Cartography and the “Perfect” 28s’ Inferno XXVIII, Purgatorio XXVIII, Paradiso XXVIII.

Prof. Theodore J. Cachey (University of Notre Dame)

03-10

57:51

"Contenti nel foco": Of Containers and Things Contained. Inferno XXVII, Purgatorio XVII, Paradiso XXVII

Prof Ronald Martinez (Brown University)

11-17

45:22

'The Poetry of Trespassing: Inferno XXVI, Purgatorio XXVI, Paradiso XXVI'

Dr Elena Lombardi (Oxford)

10-19

51:31

'Changes: Inferno XXV, Purgatorio XXV Paradiso XXV

Professor George Ferzoco (Bristol)

10-19

01:07:00

'True Desire: Inferno XXIV, Purgatorio XXIV, Paradiso XXIV'

Prof Janet Soskice (University of Cambridge)

10-09

01:01:00

'Truth, Autobiography, and the Poetry of Salvation: Inferno XXII, Purgatorio XXII, Paradiso XXII'

Prof Giuseppe Ledda (University of Bologna)

04-19

57:42

'Our Bodies, Our Selves: Crucified, Famished, Nourished: Inferno XXIII, Purgatorio XXIII, Paradiso XXIII'

Prof. Peter Hawkins (University of Yale)

04-19

01:01:00

'God's Beloved: From Pitch, through Script to Writ: Inferno XXI, Purgatorio XXI, Paradiso XXI'

Prof. Corinna Salvadori Lonergan (Trinity College, Dublin)

04-18

01:01:00

'Inside Out: Inferno XIX, Purgatorio XIX, Paradiso XIX'

Dr Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja (University of Cambridge)

04-18

50:14

Prediction, Predestination, and the Limits of Perception: Inferno XX, Purgatorio XX, Paradiso XX

Dr Claudia Rossignoli (St Andrews)

01-28

54:01

'Sloth,Seduction, and Song: Inferno XVIII, Purgatorio XVIII, Paradiso XVIII

Dr Anne Leone (Notre Dame)

01-27

56:09

'Seductive Lies, Unpalatable Truths, Alter Egos: Inferno XVII, Purgatorio XVII, Paradiso XVII'

Dr Tristan Kay (University of Bristol)

07-03

01:00:00

'Politics of Desire: Inferno XVI, Purgatorio XVI, Paradiso XVI'

Dr Manuele Gragnolati (University of Oxford)

07-03

01:04:00

'Fatherlands: Inferno XV, Purgatorio XV, Paradiso XV'

Prof. Simone Marchesi (University of Princeton)

05-06

49:39

'Fixity and Flow: The Patterning of History in Inferno XIV, Purgatorio XIV, Paradiso XIV'.

Dr Catherine Keen (UCL)

05-06

57:29

'Strange but True: Sights and Sounds in Inferno XIII, Purgatorio XIII, Paradiso XIII'

Dr Robert Wilson (University of St Andrews)

03-29

01:04:00

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