LAUNCH of the book "DANTE’S DIVINE COMMEDY. A READING GUIDE"

We are pleased to invite you to the presentation of the book "DANTE’S DIVINE COMMEDY. A READING GUIDE"

The meeting, introduced by Daragh O’ Connell (UCC), will see scholars Corinna Salvadori Lonergan (TCD), Kenneth Clarke (University of York) and George Rayson (University of Cambridge) engaged in a three-way conversation about Dante in the English-speaking world. Free admission subject to availability.

BIO:

Daragh O’ Connell is Head of the Department of Italian, UCC and Director of the CDSI (Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland). His main field of interest is Dante, in particular Dante and 13th and 14th Century Court Culture. He is on the Executive Committee of A.I.P.I (Associazione Internazionale Professori d'Italiano) and have previously been on the Executive Commitee of Society for Italian Studies (SIS) 2009-2016; Honorary Secretary and Executive Committee of the Society for Pirandello Studies (UK and Ireland) 2009-2013; Executive Committee of CLAI (Comparative Literature Association of Ireland) 2008-2014.

Corinna Salvadori Lonergan is an Emeritus Fellow at Trinity College, where she was in charge of the Italian Department from the mid-1960s until 2001. She has published on Dante, the poetry of Michelangelo, Ariosto, as well as on Dante and Beckett, and William Roscoe and Lorenzo de’ Medici. Her most recent writings have been on Dante and Irish authors, Beckett, Heaney and O’Donoghue. An honorary member of the Society for Italian Studies, and honorary President of the Associazione Internazionale Professori d’Italiano, she is a Commendatore dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.

Kenneth Clarke studied at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Bologna and the University of Oxford. He spent four years in Cambridge as the Keith Sykes Research Fellow in Italian Studies, at Pembroke College, where he was also an Affiliated Lecturer in the Italian Department, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. Part of his work has focused on the Italian sources of the fourteenth century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. He is currently working on Boccaccio, as well as the fourteenth century commentary tradition on Dante's Comedìa.

George Rayson completed his BA in English Literature at the University of York in 2018. It was there that, thanks to the department’s focus on ‘other’ literatures, that he first encountered the works of Dante. This then led to his finishing his ELAC MPhil in the University of Cambridge in 2020 with the dissertation, ‘Dante’s hapax legomena: the language of winemaking in Dante’s Commedia’. He intends to broaden this work in his PhD thesis, with the provisional title, ‘Dante’s rhyming hapax legomena in the Commedia’.

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