Event time:
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - 4:00pm
Location:
William L Harkness Hall, Room 117
100 Wall Street
Event description:
The Department of Italian Studies Annual Dante Lecture presents Teodolinda Barolini, Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Columbia University, speaking on Dante and Aristotle on Voluntary and Involuntary Action: Nicomachean Ethics 3.1 in Inferno 5 and Paradiso 3-5.
Teodolinda Barolini is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Medieval Academy of America, and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Editor of the website Digital Dante, she has published a number of books on Dante and his contemporaries, including The Undivine Comedy, Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture, and most recently Dante’s Multitudes: History, Philosophy, Method (U. Notre Dame Press).