The Annual Dante Lecture by Piero Boitani, Professor of Comparative Literature at La Sapienza, Rome
The Annual Dante Lecture by Piero Boitani, Professor of Comparative Literature at La Sapienza, Rome
Dante and Wonder
Piero Boitani is Professor of Comparative Literature at La Sapienza, Rome. Professor Boitani has authored a great number of books, including Chaucer and Boccaccio, English Medieval Narrative of the 13th and 14th Centuries, The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature, The Shadow of Ulysses: Figures of a Myth, The Bible and its Rewritings, Winged Words (University of Chicago Press, 2007), and, with Notre Dame University Press, The Genius to Improve an Invention and The Gospel according to Shakespeare (2013). His most recent books include Letteratura europea e Medioevo volgare, Il grande racconto delle stelle (Il Mulino, 2007 and 2012), Dante e il suo futuro (Storia e Letteratura, 2013), and Letteratura e verità Studium, 2013).