The Italian Cultural Institute in New York has the honor of hosting the most important Dante scholar in the world, Teodolinda Barolini, in conversation with Fabio Finotti and Luigi Ballerini, writer, poet, translator, on the occasion of the presentation of the first English translation of a fundamental book for contemporary Dante studies: An idea of Dante by Gianfranco Contini.
Teodolinda Barolini, is Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian at Columbia University, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Editor-in-chief of https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/text/
The translation is promoted and sponsored by the Istituto di Cultura and produced by Agincourt Press, of which Luigi Ballerini is the inspirer and editor. Berardo Paradiso, President of the publishing house and of the IACE, will also be present at the event.
Event in English
An idea of Dante. Translated by Stephen Sartarelli. This volume brings together all of Gianfranco Contini’s essays on Dante. The collection opens with his Introduction to the Rime of Dante, a text he wrote in 1938 that has remained a point of reference for Dantean exegesis ever since. It is followed by a close reading of a famous sonnet from La vita nuova; a portrait of Dante as both character and poet in the Divine Comedy; an essay on Dante’s relevance to our times; a comprehensive critical survey he calls “One Interpretation of Dante;” a methodological analysis titled “Philology and Dantean exegesis;” a “guide” to the poetry of Cavalcanti, to his relations with Dante, and to his presence in the Divine Comedy; and close readings of two Cantos of the Divine Comedy, Inferno III and Paradiso XXVIII. A series of commentaries on specific questions concludes the volume, which stands as an ideal introduction to the Dantean universe.
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