04/02/2021
2021 marks 700 years since the death of the Sommo poeta, Dante Alighieri. Throughout the year Temple University joins a vast number of cultural and academic institutions in celebrating the Italian poet’s output, influence, and legacy on world culture, the humanities, and beyond.
To that end, we organized a virtual event, “Lectura Dantis: Temple University Reads Dante” in the hopes of uniting our overseas campuses and the Temple University community during this most difficult time of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lectura invites our entire university community to read a selection of cantos from Dante’s Inferno. Although we cannot be together in the same physical space, we can all read from the same text and share a common goal of celebrating a key figure in the humanities.
In keeping with our connection to Dante and Philadelphia we will be using the Henry Longfellow translation of Dante’s Inferno. Longfellow visited Philadelphia, “that delightful land which is washed by the Delaware's waters” in 1867 and later composed the poem, “Philadelphia”.
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2021 marks 700 years since the death of the Sommo poeta, Dante Alighieri. Throughout the year Temple University joins a vast number of cultural and academic ...
