Giuseppe Mazzotta: "Dante's Spiritual Adventure"

Monday, March 27

3:00pm: Reception in 207 Morrill (Sponsored by the OSU English Society)

4:00pm: Public lecture SU Case Study 408, on Dante entitled "Dante's Spiritual Adventure."

(March 27, 2006)

On Monday, March 27th, the English Department is pleased to sponsor a visit and lecture from Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor and Chair of the Italian Department at Yale University. Since 1996, Professor Mazzotta has also held the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professorship of Italian Language and Literature. Known widely as one of the most respected teachers at Yale, he is also an internationally known thinker of literary-historical and philosophical questions, such as the relation between literature, philosophy, politics and theology. At the heart of Mazzotta's intellectual vision stands the persuasion that a new model of thinking is needed and is rapidly emerging in the Western world. This new model is represented and developed by the rich literary, artistic, philosophical and spiritual traditions of Italian culture, a culture shaped by the heritage of Rome, Dante, the Renaissance, and, more recently by the work of Giambattista Vico.

Mazzotta has written a number of essays about every century of Italian literary history, and his books include: Dante, Poet of the Desert: History and Allegory in the Divine Comedy (Princeton, 1979); The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron (Princeton, 1986); Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge (Princeton, 1993); The Worlds of Petrarch (Duke UP, 1993); The New Map of the World: the Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico (Princeton, 1998); Cosmopoiesis: The Renaissance Experiment ( Toronto UP, 2001). He has also edited or co-edited several books, including Critical Essays on Dante (Hall, 1991) and Master Regis (Fordham UP, 1985).

Giuseppe Mazzotta: "Dante's Spiritual Adventure"

Monday, March 27

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