Voices on Dante's Purgatorio 2022-23

A New Critical Reading of the Second Canticle 

Organized by: Prof. Dr. Zygmunt G. Barański (University of Notre Dame) and Prof. Dr. Maria Antonietta Terzoli (Universität Basel)

Following on from the complete critical reading of the Inferno that took place between March 2019 and March 2021 under the auspices of the Istituto di Italianistica dell’Università di Basilea and The William & Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame, has recently completed a critical reading of the Purgatorio along the same lines. The reading was divided into five meetings, each of two and a half days, that took place remotely in line with three of the five meetings dedicated to the Inferno.

As occurred with the Inferno, the aim of the meetings was to assess and discuss the individual cantos. The discussions brought together the speakers, as well as colleagues and undergraduate and postgraduate students. On the first evening of each meeting, there was a public lecture dedicated to the following topics connected to the Purgatorio.

The lecturae and an edited version of the discussions will be published by Carocci of Rome.

Clicke here to download the poster of the series.

• Cantos I-VII - Voices 1
  Struttura e modelli del Purgatorio
  University of Basel, 21-23 September 2022
   

• Cantos VIII-XIV - Voices 2
  Lingua e stile del ‘Purgatorio’
  University of Basel, 14-16 December 2022
   

• Cantos XV-XXI - Voices 3
  Amore in Purgatorio
  University of Basel,  8-10 March 2023
   

• Cantos XXII-XXVII - Voices 4
  Il ‘Purgatorio’ e la tradizione pastorale
  University of Basel, 10-12 May 2023
   

• Cantos XXVIII-XXXIII - Voices 5
  Biografia e trasmissione testuale del ‘Purgatorio’
  University of Basel,  20-22 September 2023
   

SPEAKERS