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David Gewanter of
the Georgetown English Department working with a cluster of colleagues
from associated academic and cultural organizations helped to assemble
an ambitious program which explored ways in which the work of Dante
inspired later artists. The conference w
featured poets Yusef Komunyaaka, Robert Pinsky, Elena Svarc, Eduoardo
Sanguineti, scholars John Frecerro and GU's Frank Ambrosio, plus visual
artists & musicians. Michael Collins, Serafina Hager, and others at GU
helped underwrite the conference. Other sponsors included NYU,
Syracuse, and the Universities of Florence and Moscow.
Below you will find a copy of the program.
Dante:
Art Engendering Art
Semicerchio:
Journal of Comparative Poetry and the Gabinetto Vieusseux
in cooperation with
American Embassy in Italy
Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Firenze
Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco
Georgetown University and Villa Le Balze
New York University – Villa La Pietra
Società Dante Alighieri Mosca
Syracuse University in Florence
University of Florence
University of Moscow
Dante: Art Engendering Art
will bring together an international array of poets, artists,
translators, and interpreters of the poetry of Dante who have
significantly contributed to the interpretation of the Poet’s world,
making his voice resound through different artistic genres and idioms.
Under the sign of Dante, Florence will become
a meeting place where American and Russian cultures - which began to
rediscover Dante simultaneously at the beginning of the XIX century -
will engage each other, developing a dialogue with each other, and
Italy. A full program of events, lectures, and workshops will
illustrate the never-ending regeneration of Dante’s poem in poetry,
theater, music, painting, and multimedia works.
The Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation,
Georgetown University, New York University, Syracuse University, and the
University and the Dante Alighieri Society of Moscow are cooperating
with the journal of comparative poetry Semicerchio and the
Gabinetto Vieusseux to develop this project. The University of Florence
and the American Embassy in Italy will also support the event. We are in
the process of requesting the sponsorship of the Società Dantesca
Italiana in Florence.
The event will take place in
various sites in Florence (including the Palazzo Veccchio and the Casa
di Dante) from November 15th to November 17th.
Schedule of Events
(some events are still TBD)
WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 15
at 5:00 pm
Palazzo Vecchio, Salone dei Cinquecento
Opening ceremony
Inaugural talks by three Dante scholars representing American,
Russian and Italian cultures (for the United States: John Freccero;
for Russia: Olga Sedakova; for Italy: TBD).
Poetry reading
by the five invited poets (Komunyakaa, Pinsky, Sanguineti, Švarc,
Sedakova) of a poem of their own choice by a great Dantist-poet of
the past belonging to their literary tradition.
at
9:00 pm
Auditorium Al Duomo, Fondazione Del Bianco
(Via de’ Cerretani 54/r)
Edoardo Sanguineti
reads and comments on Commedia dell’Inferno. Un travestimento
dantesco, his renown elaboration of Dante’s first cantica.
Portions of his Laborintus II, developed with composer Luciano
Berio, will also be played and discussed.
THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 16
at 10:00 am
University of Florence, Aula Magan of the Italian department
(p.za Savonarola, 1)
Roundtable
discussion on Dante’s work as translated and re-written by contemporary
poets (details on this meeting will be given in September).
Simultaneous translation in English will be provided.
at 6:00 pm
La Galleria, Syracuse University in Florence
(Via della Robbia, 99)
Exhibit of the artist
Quinto Martini’s illustrations of the Divine Comedy
(lithographs, bas-reliefs, paintings, drawings)
at
9:00
Auditorium Al Duomo, Fondazione Del Bianco
(Via de’ Cerretani 54/r)
Presentation and
discussion of works inspired by Dante made by Russian, American and
Italian artists (short films, musical pieces, multimedia works, and
video-operas such as The Voyage of D. and V. by Iraida
Yusupova and Alexander Dolghin)
FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER 17
at 11 am
Casa di Dante – Circolo degli Artisti
(Via S. Margherita 1)
Official presentation
of the exibit of graphical works, paintings and videos by American,
Russian and Italian artists from the beginning of the 20th century to
today. The exhibition will be open until December 17, and it will
include the screening of film inspired by Dante made at the beginning of
the past century and collected by Mediateca Regionale Toscana.
Among them, Francesco Bertolini’s L’Inferno da la
Divina Commedia of 1911.
at
5:00 pm
Gabinetto Vieusseux
(Palazzo Strozzi, Sala Ferri)
Yusef Komunyakaa (author
of a monologue inspired by Dante’s Beatrice), Robert Pinsky (poet
and translator of the Inferno), Elena Švarc (poet and
winner of the Prize Sibilla Aleramo),
Olga Sedakova (poet and Italianist) read from their
translations and re-writings of the works of Dante.
Poetry reading hosted by Edoardo Sanguineti.
The poems will be also read in Italian by poet and performer
Rosaria Lo Russo.
at 9:00 pm
Villa la Pietra – New York University
(Via Bolognese, 120)
Performance
based on Dante’s Comedy by the theater director
Giancarlo Cauteruccio.
Music inspired by Dante by the American composer Bruce Saylor (Cantos
for the Inferno; violinist Gil Morgenstern, libretto by Jonathan
Levi – stage adaptation for Pinsky’s translation of Inferno) and
from Laborintus II by Luciano Berio in
cooperation with Sanguineti.
During the event the website
Digital Dante Project, developed by Frank Ambrosio (Georgetown
University) will be presented.
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