Dante's Purgatorio, Canto I
Rachel Jacoff, a scholar of Dante, and the Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature at Wellesley College, reads the first canto of Dante’s Purgatorio in Italian. Her introductory lecture, in English, analyzes the canto and its position within the larger work.
This program is part of an ongoing public reading of the Divine Comedy organized by the Boston College Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Center for Italian Culture in Newton, Massachusetts.
Jacoff is introduced by Laurie Shepard, an associate professor of Italian at Boston College.
Presenter(s): Rachel Jacoff
Date: November 22, 2004
Location: Devlin 101, Boston College
Sponsor(s): Romance Languages & Literatures; Center for Italian Culture, Newton, Massachusetts
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/jacoff/
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