Beginning 18 October and continuing over four years, a team of Dante experts from the U.K. and abroad will carry out a series of public lectures on the Comedy that explore the 'vertical' connections between cantos of the same number across all three canticles. This is the first time that this method of reading (a method that has been discussed by Dante scholars and executed very successfully in studies of single cantos) will be systematically employed to tackle the entire poem.

We ask your help in this endeavour. Please come along to the public lectures and bring friends, students, and colleagues. And please join in the discussions after the lectures. For those who are interested, workshops on single cantos will take place in the afternoons preceding the lectures.

We have partnered with the Dante Centres at Leeds and Notre Dame for this project; workshops will be led alternately by each of those centres and connected by teleconference. The project has been funded for 2012-2013 by the Department of Italian at Cambridge and CIRN.

Programme for Lent Term 2013

The Public Lectures are at 6pm in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge

Workshops will be held at 4.30pm, also in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31st January
Inferno IV, Purgatorio IV, Paradiso IV: JOHN MARENBON

Thursday 14th February
Inferno V, Purgatorio V, Paradiso V: ROBIN KIRKPATRICK

Thursday 28th February
Inferno VI, Purgatorio VI, Paradiso VI: CLARE HONESS

Programme for Michaelmas Term 2012

Thursday 18th October
Inferno I, Purgatorio I, Paradiso I: GEORGE CORBETT and HEATHER WEBB

Thursday 8th November
Inferno II, Purgatorio II, Paradiso II: MATTHEW TREHERNE

Thursday 22nd November
Inferno III, Purgatorio III, Paradiso III: VITTORIO MONTEMAGGI

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