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Colloquium - Dante at the Collège de France, December 4-5, 2009

International colloquium organized in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura de Paris and the Società Dante Alighieri - Comité de Paris.
Lectures given in French.
Free admission, subject to availability

Friday, December 4th 2009

9:30am - 12:30pm
1. Dante at the Collège de France

Chairman: Carlo Ossola, Collège de France
- Pierre Brunel, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
The origins of Dante's presence at the Sorbonne and Collège de France
- Yves Bonnefoy, Collège de France
Dante and words
- Brian Stock, University of Toronto
Etienne Gilson: art, literature and Dante's philosophy

2:30 pm - 6:00 pm
2. Hell, Purgatory, Paradise

Chair: Brian Stock, University of Toronto
- Karlheinz Stierle, Universität des Saarlandes
On the threshold of the "selva oscura
- Jacqueline Risset, University of Roma III
"Dolce color d'orïental zaffiro
- Gerhard Wolf, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence
"Mi parve pinta de la nostra effige" (My pint of nostalgia)
- Jean Delumeau, Collège de France
The construction of Paradise
- François Livi, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne
The poetic imagination as interpretation of dogma. Regards sur le ‛Paradis' de Dante

7:30 pm Recital by Edna Stern, pianist: After a reading of Dante and other musical elevations.
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Hôtel de Galliffet, 73 rue de Grenelle, 75007.Paris
(booking essential on 01 44 39 49 39)

Saturday, December 5, 2009

9:30am - 1:00pm
3. Dante, Paradise XXXIII

Chairwoman: Jacqueline Risset, University of Roma III
- Marco Maggi, University of Lugano
"cio ch'i'dico è un semplice lume" (v. 90)
- Carlo Ossola, Collège de France
"...d'un fante / che bagni ancor la lingua a la mammella" (vv. 107-108)
- Mira Mocan, University of Roma III
"A l'alta fantasia qui mancò possa" (v. 142)
- Corrado Bologna, University of Rome III
"Ma già volgeva il mio disio e 'l velle" (v. 143)
- Stefano Prandi, University of Bern
"Sì come rota ch'igualmente è mossa" (v. 144)