2024 Annual Dante Lecture: Dante and Beatrice

Please join us as our guest on November 6, 2024 for this year’s Dante Lecture: "Dante and Beatrice", presented by Prof. George Corbett, Professor of Theology, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews, U.K. The lecture, established by Alberto Di Giovanni and Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni, will take place from 6pm to 7:30pm in Alumni Hall, Room 400 (registration is on the first floor), with a reception in the John M. Kelly Library to follow from 7:30pm to 9pm.

Professor Corbett will speak about Dante’s Beatrice, her identification as the Florentine woman Beatrice by Boccaccio and how this was contested during the first 400 years of Dante’s reception history, culminating in Biscioni’s edition of the prose of Dante and Boccaccio.

We expect this (free) event to be extremely popular so register now!

Before the lecture, be sure to visit Dante Garden which features a life-sized sculpture of Dante along with each of the 100 cantos in the Divine Comedy. Located at the northeast corner of Queen’s Park Circle and St. Joseph Street, Dante Garden has been made possible by patrons The Honourable Maurizio Bevilacqua P.C. and Tony and Lina Gagliano, and supporters Ms. Margaret A Brennan, Ms. Mary T. Brennan, Ms. Joan Brennan, Mrs. Clorinda Pirro, Mr. Edmond F Vanhaverbeke, Ms. Sylvia Lisk Vanhaverbeke, Mr. Alberto Di Giovanni and Mrs. Caroline F. Di Giovanni, Mr. Joseph M. Tanzola and Mrs. Marcella Tanzola, and The Heaslip Family Foundation.

George Corbett is Professor of Theology, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews, U.K. Prior to joining the School of Divinity in 2015, he held positions as Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Trinity College, and Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge, where he taught English literature, Italian literature, and theology. He received his BA (double first), MPhil (distinction), and PhD (AHRC-funded) from the University of Cambridge. He also studied in Pisa as an Erasmus-Socrates exchange scholar at La Scuola Normale Superiore, in Rome at the Institutum Pontificium Alterioris Latinitatis, and in Montella at the Vivarium Novum. He directs (a Thomistic Centre for Philosophy and Scholastic Theology) and (a project linking up theologians and artists), and co-directs the collaborative MLitt in Sacred Music. Prof. Corbett has two principal areas of research: theology and the arts (with a focus on the theologian-poet Dante Alighieri) and historical and systematic theology (with a focus on Aquinas’ theology and its influence, and on Catholic theology).

If you have questions or require accommodations during your visit, please contact us at [email protected].

We look forward to experiencing "Dante and Beatrice" together!

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