Date/Time
Date(s) - 27 Mar 2015
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
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The NYU Department of Italian Studies and Medieval and Renaissance Center and Columbia University Italian Academy present:
Dante as a Political Theorist: An International Symposium on Monarchy
A One-Day Conference: March 27 2015, launching the New York Dante Global Project
Dante’s Monarchy is a Latin prose work that Dante composed in the late years of his exile, while he was writing his Paradiso. Shaped on the ideal model of Roman Empire and dealing with things that are “measured in time,” Dante’s medieval Monarchy is a work in which philosophy and politics are discussed and organized in an effort to establish the perfect political form that grants earthly happiness to human beings. Dante draws an idea of Empire in which particularism and universalism appear to be balanced, and in which the historical development of small political entities is taken into account as crucial for grounding universalism.
The Conference intends to discuss the most recent editions and studies on Dante’s political treatise, evaluating its historical and philosophical background and its link with new theories about power and political authorities. It also attempts to evaluate the treatise in light of the contemporary debate on globalization and hybridization as marks of a new political vision of internationalism.
The Global Dante Project aligns NYU with the new international studies on Dante.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (morning sessions)
24 W. 12th Street
New York, NY 10011
and
The Italian Academy (afternoon sessions)
1161 Amsterdam Avenue,
New York, NY 10027
(Just south of 118th Street)
Free and open to the public
For more info and full program go here.
