A Lectura Dantis is a public reading and explanation of all 100 cantos of Dante’s Divine Comedy canto by canto. Each canto of the Commedia is discussed by a different scholar, and we have a wide range of expert speakers coming to St Andrews for each meeting of the Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana (LDA).
29th meeting
Programme
9.45 – Introduction and welcome – Dr Claudia Rossignoli (St Andrews)
10.00 – Creative Imagination and Mystical Intuition in the Commedia – Mr Spencer Pearce (University of Manchester)
11.10 – Break
11.20 – Paradiso Canto XXVII – Prof. John Barnes (University College Dublin)
12.30 – Lunch Break
14.10 – Paradiso Canto XXVIII – Dr Vittorio Montemaggi (King’s College London)
15.20 – Break
15.30 – Paradiso Canto XXIX – Dr David Bowe (University College Cork)
16.40 – Break
17.00 – 18.00 – Round table discussion – all speakers (in Buchanan Building)
Free entry, open to the public
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