The Metamorphosis of Beatrice. Love and Justice from Dante’s “Vita Nova” to the “Commedia”
a Zoom presentation by Prof. Marco Veglia
Professor of Italian and Medieval Literature, University of Bologna
May 4th at 3pm (Central Time)
Presented by the Embassy of Italy in Washington D.C and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington D.C., in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes of Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Montreal, New York, and Toronto on the occasion the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s passing.
How many representations of Beatrice does Dante’s poetry convey? If she were divine, she was also cruel prior to the Divine Comedy. It is there, in the “Commedia”, that she changes for the love of Dante, and he does the same for the love of her. Once extraneous to politics, Beatrice becomes, in fact, the eye watching the justice of men on earth.
Prof. Marco Veglia teaches Italian and Medieval Literature at the University of Bologna. An expert on Dante and Boccaccio, he recently curated the latest and most innovative commentary to the Decameron for the Italian publisher Feltrinelli.
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