A New Critical Reading of the Third 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 readings of the Inferno and the Purgatorio that took place between March 2019 and September 2023 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, the aim now is to organize a critical reading of the Paradiso along the same lines. This will be divided into five meetings, each of two and a half days, that will take place remotely in line with the meetings dedicated to the Inferno and the Purgatorio. The five meetings will take place on the following dates:
4-16 May 2025: cantos I-VI
10-12 September 2025: cantos VII-XII
19-21 November 2025: cantos XIII-XIX
22-24 April 2026: cantos XX-XXVI
27-29 May 2026: cantos XXVII-XXXIII
As occurred with the Inferno and the Purgatorio, the aim of the meetings is to assess and discuss the individual cantos. The discussions will bring together the speakers, as well as colleagues and undergraduate and postgraduate students. The lecturae and an edited version of the discussions will be published by Carocci of Rome. On the first evening of each meeting, there will be a public lecture dedicated to the following topics connected to the Paradiso:
• The Structure and Rhetoric of Paradiso
• Languge and Style of Paradiso
• Dante’s Biography and the Textual Transmission of Paradiso
• Paradiso and Medieval Religious Culture
• The Medieval Cosmos and Dante’s Paradise
SPEAKERS
- Erminia Ardissino (Università di Torino)
- Luca Azzetta (Università di Firenze)
- Laura Banella (University of Notre Dame)
- Zygmunt G. Barański (University of Notre Dame)
- Elisa Brilli (University of Toronto)
- Theodore Cachey (University of Notre Dame)
- Anna Chisena (Università di Bologna)
- Alison Cornish (New York University, Presidente della Dante Society of
America) - Paolo D’Achille (Università di Roma Tre)
- Roberto Galbiati (Università di Torino)
- Filippo Gianferrari (University of California, Santa Cruz)
- Giorgio Inglese (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
- Luca Lombardo (Università di Bergamo)
- Luca Marcozzi (Università di Roma Tre)
- Florian Mehltretter (Universität Munchen)
- Paola Nasti (Northwestern University)
- Helena Phillips-Robins (University of Cambridge)
- Lino Pertile (Harvard University)
- Maria Antonietta Terzoli (Universität Basel)
- Tonelli Natascia (Università di Siena)
- Juan Varela-Portas de Orduña (Universidad Complutense Madrid)
- Tiziano Zanato (Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari)