Dante’s Ulysses Today, a presentation by Prof. Lino Pertile, Carl A. Pescosolido Research Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University
Wednesday, March 3 at 3pm (Central Time)
A webinar presented by the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington DC in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes of Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, San Francisco and Toronto on the occasion the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s passing.
The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the master poet known as the Father of the Italian language. Join us in celebrating the life and work of Dante in the third of a series of commemorative events.
Dante’s Ulysses personifies the fundamental moral issue of the use and abuse of human intelligence: What can we do with our intelligence? How far may we go with it? Are we allowed to pursue any intellectual quest regardless of its consequences? Should we resist the temptation to let our intelligence run freely without any moral restraint? In the Divine Comedy, Ulysses becomes a tragic hero. His example, more relevant today than ever, occurs and re-occurs as both a stimulus to search endlessly and a warning not to trespass the limit beyond which human intelligence brings its own downfall.
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