Tolle et Lege: Paradise comes first: Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Order of the Universe
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- Walter A. Slowinski Courtroom
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Lino PertileCarl A. Pescosolido Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages, Harvard UniversityLino Pertile is Carl A. Pescosolido Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. A graduate of the University of Padua, he taught Italian Language and Literature in England and Scotland before joining Harvard University in 1995, where he served as Master of Eliot House (2000-2010) and Director of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence (2010-2015). His research interests focus on the Latin and Italian Middle Ages, the Renaissance in Italy and France, and Italian narrative in the 20th century. In 1996 he co-edited with Peter Brand The Cambridge History of Italian Literature (paperback 1999). In addition to numerous articles, his publications on Dante include Dante in Context (2015, coed., paperback 2017), the Special Dante Anniversary Issue of Forum Italicum (55/2, 2021, coed.), and the volumes La puttana e il gigante: dal Cantico dei Cantici al Paradiso terrestre, 1998, La punta del disio. Semantica del desiderio nella Commedia, 2005, Dante popolare, 2021, and Dante controcorrente, 2023. He is a member of the Accademia Ambrosiana (Milan) and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome).
About the Event
Tolle et Lege is a reading society dedicated to exploring texts in the Catholic intellectual tradition. We bring together scholars and students to engage these works, inspiring each other to “pick up and read” with curiosity and delight.
