- Book Presentation
The Diva and the Maestro
Song, Poetry and Performance in Baroque Italy
View details about the event: The Diva and the MaestroTypologies of Prayer in the Comedy
Presented with
NYU Department of Italian Studies and The Colloquium in the Humanities
Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage
Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy
(Brill, 2019)
by Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University
Introduced by Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU
In Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage, Alessandro Vettori provides a comprehensive analysis of the prayerful phenomenon in Dante’s Commedia and considers prayer a poetic/metaphorical pilgrimage of the soul toward the vision of the Trinity, while also reflecting Dante’s own exilic experience.
In ENGLISH.