The Devers Program offers seminars that promote and further the study of Dante through collaborative learning among students and faculty and by stressing interconnections among different fields of study.
This workshop, organized by Lorenzo Dell’Oso (University of Notre Dame) and Paola Nasti (Northwestern University), investigates the intellectual context of Dante Alighieri’s formation by focusing on the development of a less known genre of Scholasticism, the quodlibetal disputation, in late medieval Italy.…
This workshop, organized by Lorenzo Dell’Oso (University of Notre Dame) and Paola Nasti (Northwestern University), investigates the intellectual context of Dante Alighieri’s formation by focusing on the development of a less known genre of Scholasticism, the quodlibetal disputation, in late medieval Italy.…
Rossella Mosti: “Due traduzioni italiane della Trotula” (Two Italian Translations of the Trotula)
Il Libro delle segrete cose delle donne e il Libro dell’adornamento delle femmine sono due trattatelli medici (un manualetto ginecologico-ostetrico il primo, e un ricettario cosmetico il secondo), frutto del rimaneggiamento di tre libri del Corpus di…
Matthias Bürgel: “Fra manichei e idolatri: il ventre nella letteratura domenicana trecentesca” (Between Manichaens and Idolaters: the Ventre in Fourteenth-Century Dominican Literature)
Il ventesimo capitolo dell’Esposizione del Credo di Domenico Cavalca è dedicato “[all]’idolatria di quelli che fanno dio del ventre”. Il modo in cui Cavalca parla del ventre…
Voices on Dante’s Inferno: A Journey towards the 700th Anniversary of the Poet’s Death: Session II
Cantos VIII-XIV
This is the second session in a series of five taking place from 2019-2021 to mark the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death. The full program may be found here…