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).
28th meeting
Programme
9.45 – Introduction and welcome – Dr Claudia Rossignoli (St Andrews)
10.00 – Paradiso Canto XXIII – Prof. Simon Gilson (University of Oxford)
11.10 – Break
11.20 – Paradiso Canto XXIV – Prof. Zygmunt G. Baranski (University of Notre Dame)
12.30 – Lunch Break
14.10 – Paradiso Canto XXV – Prof. Lino Pertile (Harvard University)
15.20 – Break
15.30 – Paradiso Canto XXVI – Prof. Alison Cornish (New York University)
16.40 – Break
17.00 – 18.00 – Round table discussion – all speakers (in Buchanan Building)
Free entry, open to the public