Dante and the Knowledge of His Time (on the 750th Anniversary of the Birth of Dante Alighieri)
December 10, 2015
The workshop offers seven different perspectives on Dante: from his formation in Florence to the new poetics of the Vita nova; from the foundation of a new science in the Convivio and the De vulgari eloquentia to Dante’s dialogue with Brunetto Latini and Arnaut Daniel in the Commedia; from the hermeneutics of Dante’s otherworldly realms to Botticelli’s illustrations of the poem.
By inviting scholars to discuss Dante’s oeuvre in its historical, philosophical, and literary contexts, the Freie Universität wishes to mark the 750th anniversary of the birth of Dante Alighieri.
Programme:
9:00-9:15: Joachim Küpper (Freie Universität Berlin), Igor Candido (Johns Hopkins University / Freie Universität Berlin), Gaia Gubbini (Freie Universität Berlin), Opening
9:15-10:15: Gerhard Regn (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), La segnicità dell’oltretomba
10:15-10:30: Pausa / Break
10:30-11:30: Franziska Meier (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Scienza nova? Dante’s expectations of the vernacular
11:30-12:30: Igor Candido (Johns Hopkins University / Freie Universität Berlin), Notes for Rereading the Vita Nova: the First Dream Vision
12:30-14:00: Pausa pranzo / Lunch Break
14:00-15:00: Zygmunt G. Baranski (University of Notre Dame / University of Cambridge), Studying Dante’s Intellectual Formation: Problems rather than Solutions
15:00-15:15: Pausa / Break
15:15-16:15: Gaia Gubbini (Freie Universität Berlin), La “radice” di Francesca e la speranza di Arnaut: Dante e il problema dell’amore
16:15-17:15: Andreas Kablitz (Universität zu Köln), The First Canto of Dante’s Commedia and the Tesoretto by Brunetto Latini
17:15-18:15: Joachim Küpper (Freie Universität Berlin), Dante and Botticelli