“Dante’s Other Works” 2015: A Celebration of the 750th Anniversary of Dante’s Birth

In 2015, the 750th anniversary of Dante’s birth, and the 20th anniversary of the founding of the William & Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies, the William & Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies and Italian Studies at Notre Dame will host a celebration of the poet’s so-called “minor works” with a lecture series and a publication.

The series will take place on eight Thursdays throughout 2015, beginning in January and ending in November. Twelve prominent scholars from the US, Italy and the UK have been invited to deliver lectures in the series. Each lecture will address one of the “other works” by presenting the principal interpretive trends and issues relating to the text and focusing on some of its aspects of particular interest. In conjunction with the lecture series, Notre Dame University Press will publish a “companion to Dante’s other works.”

All lectures in Rare Books and Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries.

29 January 2015 at 4:30pm
Vita nova: Zygmunt G. Barański (Cambridge-Notre Dame)

26 March 2015 at 4:30pm
Epistles: Claire Honess (Leeds)

9 April 2015 at 4:30pm
Rime: Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford)

16 April 2015 at 4:00pm
Convivio: Simon Gilson (Warwick)
De vulgari eloquentia: Steven Botterill (Berkeley)

10 September 2015 at 4:30pm
Monarchia: Paola Nasti (Reading)

17 September 2015 at 4:30pm
Theology and the other works: Vittorio Montemaggi (Notre Dame)
Philosophy and the other works: Luca Bianchi (Piemonte Orientale)

8 October 2015 at 4:30pm
Questio de aqua et terra: Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. (Notre Dame)
Authenticity and the other works: Albert R. Ascoli (Berkeley)

12 November 2015 at 4:30pm                                                                                                                                                   Eclogues: Jonathan Combs-Schilling (Ohio State)                                                                                                                      Fiore and Detto d’Amore: Christopher Kleinhenz (Wisconsin-Madison)