From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in Dante's "Divina Commedia" 4
- Event type
- Other Events
- Address
- ONLINE
- Speakers
- John Took (University College London), Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute), Tabitha Tuckett (University College London)
- Event dates
- Contact
- warburg@sas.ac.uk 020 7862 8910
Inferno, Canto XIII. The suicides. Pier della Vigna.
NB: this session will be preceded at 5.30pm by a special Curatorial Conversation with curator and art historian Jean Clair, and science historian Laura Bossi Régnier, on their current exhibition, Inferno, at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome (until 9 January 2022). You are very welcome to attend this prior event via the same zoom link without further registration. For details see: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/curatorial-conversation-inferno
This series aims to introduce the beauty, complexity and continuing significance of Dante’s Divina Commedia through readings of the text, in the original and in translation, and through commentary on it. The readings are accompanied by a rich visual display of medieval illuminations whilst the commentary explores and invites discussion of some of the leading ideas of the poem.
FREE VIA ZOOM. YOU MAY BOOK FOR THE WHOLE SERIES OR FOR INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS
Click here for the 2021-2022 readings timetable.
image: Allegorical Portrait of Dante, Unknown Florentine Artist (late 16th C): Sanuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
