A Recital by Riccardo Pratesi
To celebrate the 750th anniversary of Dante’s birth the Georgetown University Italian Research
Institute, the Georgetown University Italian Department, the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute, are
sponsoring a recital of Dante’s cantos related to science. Riccardo Pratesi, from the Museo
Galileo in Florence, Italy, will recite the cantos in Italian and comment on the scientific context
of the selected cantos. Prof. Francesco Ciabattoni of Georgetown University Italian Department
will discuss the literary context. An English translation of the cantos will be distributed.
Riccardo Pratesi was born in Florence, Italy, in 1965. He has a degree in Physics from the University of Florence and is currently completing a Ph.D. in History of Science at the University of Pisa. He works at the Museo Galileo, the National Institute and at the Museum of History of Science of Florence, concentrating on didactic and educational activities. A scholar of the Divine Comedy he is the author of “Galileo Galilei: Two Lectures at the Florentine Academy on the Figure, Site & Greatness of Dante’s Inferno”.
Pratesi is a gifted individual endowed with a photographic memory who, on many occasions is invited to recite Cantos from the Divine Comedy. He has given recitals at the Società Dantesca Italiana in Florence and at the “Settembre Dantesco in Ravenna.
INFO ALSO AT: italianinstitute.college.georgetown.edu/events
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Reservations are available until we reach
capacity or by the above date/time (whichever comes
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LOCATION
Embassy of Italy – Auditorium
3000 Whitehaven St, NW
Washington, DC, 20008
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