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Lecture: Dante and English Romanticism. Voicing Freedoms

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

A lecture by Diego Saglia (Università di Parma). Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British culture saw a surge in the interest in Dante and his Divina Commedia. Writers, artists, translators and critics engaged with his figure and work with unprecedented intensity, thereby stimulating a widespread fascination with Dante that also inspired an increasing number of original works of fiction…