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webinar > Dante – A Presentation by Alessandro Barbero (IIC San Francisco)

As part of our series of events commemorating the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, we are pleased to announce “Dante: a presentation by Alessandro Barbero”, a program organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, in collaboration with the network of Italian Cultural Institutes of North America and under the patronage of the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC.

In his groundbreaking book, Dante, Alessandro Barbero examines the life, times, and world of the medieval creator of the masterpiece The Divine Comedy. Barbero follows Dante through his adolescence as the son of a usurer who dreams of belonging to the world of nobles and men of letters; through the dark corridors of politics, where his ideals are shattered in the face of the petty rivalries and rampant corruption; and through his wandering in exile, where he discovers the incredible diversity of fourteenth-century Italy— from its commercial metropolises to the insular world of its smaller courts. 

Author and historian Alessandro Barbero is a recipient of the prestigious Strega Prize. The webinar is moderated by Prof. Michael Subialka (UC Davis).

The English translation of the e-book Dante is available to purchase here.

 

WHEN: February 25, 2021 – 1:30 PM ET / (10:30 AM PT)

WHERE: Online Webinar

EVENT LANGUAGE: English

  

Webinar –  Registration Required

 

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Presented by the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes of Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, Toronto and Washington, DC.

  


 

ALESSANDRO BARBERO

alessandro barberoBorn in Turin in 1959, Alessandro Barbero, is professor of Medieval History at the Università del Piemonte Orientale (University of Eastern Piedmont).

His historical novel Bella vita e guerre altrui di Mr. Pyle, gentiluomo (Milan, Mondadori, 1995) (Beautiful Life and Foreign Wars of Mr. Pyle, Gentleman) was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize (1996), and translated into seven languages. His recent works include Dante (Laterza, 2020) and the biography of the Roman emperor Constantine, Constantino il vincitore (Salerno Editrice, 2016).

In 2005, the government of the French Republic awarded him the title of “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.” For many years he has contributed to the newspaper La Stampa and the television program Superquark. Since 2013, Mr. Barbero has appeared in the Rai Storia programs a.C.d.C. and Passato e presente.

 

MICHAEL SUBIALKA

michael subialkaMichael Subialka is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at UC Davis, where he researches modernism with special focus on the intersection of literature and philosophy. He has also published on Renaissance and early modern Italian literature and thought. His monograph Modernist Idealism: Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature (Toronto, 2021) is forthcoming, and his co-authored book, Scrittura di immagini: Pirandello e la visualità tra arte, filosofia e psicoanalisi, written with Carlo Di Lieto and Lisa Sarti, is out now (Rubbettino Editore, 2021).

 

  • Organizzato da: IIC San Francisco
  • In collaborazione con: Please see above