Dante: Hell and Inferno
On the European Day of Languages St Petersburg University Representative Office in Italy and the University for Foreigners of Siena will held an online lecture “Dante: Hell and Inferno” within a framework of a joint project of online lectures. The lecture will be delivered by Professor Giuseppe Marrani.
European Christian culture sees Hell described in the Holy Scriptures in different ways. Even in the Middle Ages there were different views on the realm of Lucifer and eternal torments, which were prepared by devils for cursed souls. The lecture will show how transformation of these traditional views shown in the first cantica of Divine Comedy serves a new, powerful and surprisingly original idea.
Lecturer
Giuseppe Marrani is a professor of Italian philology, PhD, Director of the Liberal Studies Department at the University for Foreigners of Siena. His research interest covers lyric Italian poetry of the thirteenth and fourteenth century. In particular, he examined Rustico Filippi (his critical edition of Rustico Filippi’s poetry was published in 1999) and Dante’s works before Divine Comedy, paying special attention to his place among minor poets of the XIV century. Giuseppe Marrani is a co-editor of the journal “Per Leggi”, a member of the editorial board of “Medioevo romanzo” and “Studi di Filologia italiana” journals, a member of the Dante Alighieri Italian Society, Italian Society of Romance Philology and Italian Literary Critics Society.