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November 29, 2018
Sonus qui non est vox: Sound and voice in Dante The soundscape of the Divine Comedy is both vocal and nonvocal.  This paper explores how Dante exploits what for his culture...
November 28, 2018
The Centrality of Craft in Late Medieval Italy: Dante and the Rise of the Mechanical Arts
November 8, 2018
This speaker series will consider the centrality of Italy to a number of vital cultural discourses. The spatial metaphor of our title will have an important temporal...
April 17, 2018
Diane Luby Lane is the Founder and Executive Director of Get Lit-Words Ignite, Los Angeles’ leading nonprofit presenter of literary performance, education and teen poetry...
March 16, 2018
Rebecca West is a specialist of modern and contemporary Italian literature, culture, and film, with a secondary scholarly interest in Dante and in Italian American film and...