Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy
A four-year workshop and lecture programme hosted by the Department of Italian at Cambridge University.
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 Department of Italian at Cambridge has 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 for 2012-2013 by the Department of Italian at Cambridge and CIRN.
Program for 2012
Workshops will be held at 11.30am (EST), and will be broadcast via teleconference. Lectures will begin at 1pm in Cambridge, and they will be available for viewing at a later date.
Thursday 18th October
Inferno I, Purgatorio I, Paradiso I: lecture by GEORGE CORBETT and HEATHER WEBB at 1pm (to be broadcast later)
workshop on Inferno I at 11.30am
Thursday 8th November
Inferno II, Purgatorio II, Paradiso II: lecture by MATTHEW TREHERNE at 1pm (to be broadcast later)
workshop on Purgatorio II at 11.30am, teleconference in Room 121, ITC
Thursday 22nd November
Inferno III, Purgatorio III, Paradiso III: lecture by VITTORIO MONTEMAGGI
workshop on Paradiso III at 11.30am, teleconference location tbc (please contact italstud@nd.edu)
Program for 2013
Thursday 31st January
Inferno IV, Purgatorio IV, Paradiso IV: lecture by JOHN MARENBON
workshop at 11.30am
Thursday 14th February
Inferno V, Purgatorio V, Paradiso V: lecture by ROBIN KIRKPATRICK
workshop at 11.30am
Thursday 28th February
Inferno VI, Purgatorio VI, Paradiso VI: lecture by CLAIRE HONESS
workshop at 11.30am
Thursday 2nd May
Inferno VII, Purgatorio VII, Paradiso VII: lecture by SIMON GILSON
workshop at 11.30am
Thursday 16th May
Inferno VIII, Purgatorio VIII, Paradiso VIII
Thursday 24th October
NINES (Zygmunt Baranski)
Thursday 7th November
TENS (Robert Durling)
Thursday 21st November
ELEVENS
Program for 2014
Thursday 30th January
TWELVES
Thursday 13th February
THIRTEENS
Thursday 27th February
FOURTEENS (Catherine Keen)
Thursday 1st May
FIFTEENS (Simone Marchesi)
Thursday 15th May
SIXTEENS
Thursday 29th May
SEVENTEENS
Please contact italstud@nd.edu if you would like to participate in the upcoming workshops, which will take place via teleconference.