Studying Dante’s Religious Culture and the Problem of the Beatific Vision: Questions of Method

Time: April 10, 2019, 5 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

Location: Hillyer Room, 606 Bird Library

Zygmunt G. Barański (University of Notre Dame)

Barański examines the unsystematic treatment of Dante’s religious culture in scholarship, with particular attention to the poet’s treatment of the issue of heavenly beatitude in the Commedia’s final canticle, Paradiso. His engaging lecture style combined with his meticulous research methods and the far-reaching implications of his work on Dante and medieval Italian literature promise to inspire everyone from language and poetry scholars to medievalists from diverse interdisciplinary backgrounds.

Biography: Zygmunt G. Barański is Serena Professor of Italian Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and Notre Dame Professor of Dante & Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has published extensively on Dante and on medieval and modern Italian literature and culture. For many years he was senior editor of The Italianist, and currently holds the same position with Le tre corone.

Additional supporters:

Medieval Renaissance Group
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
SU Libraries
History
English

Anne Leone, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics