Date/Time
Date(s) - 29 Nov 2012
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location
CUNY Graduate Center
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The Graduate Program in Comparative Literature (Italian Specialization) cordially invites you to a Lecture by
Prof. Maria Luisa Ardizzone
(New York University)
“Vici” and “Vicinie”: Remapping Dante’s Idea of Empire
Thursday, November 29, 2012
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Room 4116
The talk explores the role played by the small communities in Dante’s political thought. Introducing new sources and rereading a few fragments from Convivio and Monarchia, we will focus on Dante’s attempt to harmonize his idea of empire with the existence and importance of such small human aggregations. The link he establishes between new social organizations and new philosophical contents will be part of the discussion.
Maria Luisa Ardizzone is Associate Professor of Italian at New York University. Her research has focused on medieval Italian poetry (Dante, Calvalcanti), especially in its relationship with the scientific and philosophical debates, as well as on modern literature. Her publications include Ezra Pound e la scienza. Scritti inediti o rari (Scheiwiller, 1987), the edition of Ezra Pound, Machine Art and Other Writings. The Lost Thought of the Italian Years (Duke University Press, 1996), Guido Cavalcanti: The Other Middle Ages (Toronto University Press, 2002), and Dante, il paradigma intellettuale. Un’inventio degli anni fiorentini (Olshki, 2011).
For information contact [email protected]
The event is free and open to the public. The event is part of an ongoing series of lectures organized by the Comparative Literature Department (Italian Specialization) at the Graduate Center – CUNY, and generously sponsored by the Sonia Raiziss Group Foundation