DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY: A Timeless Journey @ SMITHSONIAN
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DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY - A Timeless Journey "SEMINAR"
@ SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
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SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES
Present:
DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY
"A TIMELESS JOURNEY" - SEMINAR
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 08, 2014 | 9:30 AM ~ 4:15 PM
SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES - S. DILLON RIPLEY CENTER
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The Divine Comedy: A medieval classic in three books Inferno / Purgatory / Paradise. An Epic Poem by Dante Alighieri (circa 1308-1321)
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ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE (INFERNO Canto 1 - A sign above HELL's gates)
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Florentine Dante Alighieri ’s DIVINA COMMEDIA (Divine Comedy) is A MUST read for most high school students in Italy, purposefully starting with the Inferno. Dante is recognized (along with his Florentine contemporary writers Petrarca and Boccaccio) as the founder of the Italian language.
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FRANK AMBROSIO, director of Georgetown University’s“My Dante Project”, lays out a roadmap that enables participants to experience the Comedy as Dante intended: A journey of his self-discovery, both terrible and sublime, set in a landscape as varied as the array of unforgettable characters who reside there.
For readers, it can be a rewarding journey of personal discovery, too. The Divine Comedy offers us the most familiar, yet most mysterious of all spectacles.
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PROGRAM
9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Introduction: “In the Middle of Life’s Journey”.
11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Inferno: “Abandon All Hope Who Enter Here”.
1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Purgatorio: Freedom and Forgiveness.
3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Paradiso: The Joy of the White Rose.