“The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic. Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso”, a book presentation by Prof. Andrea Moudarres, Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, UCLA
in conversation with Prof. Gerry Milligan, Director of College Honors Programs, CUNY College of Staten Island
Wednesday, March 3 at 7pm (Central Time)
Presented by the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes of Chicago, Washington D.C., 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 fourth of a series of commemorative events.
As Prof. Andrea Moudarres will explain, The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic. Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso
follows the same narrative of internal strife, exploring enmity within the self, the state, and the world through the prism of prominent works of the Italian literary canon: Dante’s Commedia, Luigi Pulci’s Morgante, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, and Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata.
Registration is required. Click here to register.