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Dante

TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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'Poets in Purgatory' Video

Contemporary poets read from their translations of the Purgatorio and from their poems about Dante.
Modern Languages Inaugural lectures

‘Arriving before us’: seeing, ingenuity and imagination in Dante: Simon Gilson's Inaugural lecture

During his inaugural lecture, Professor Gilson will show how ideas about vision and cognate faculties such as the wits and the imagination are central to Dante’s masterpiece, the Commedia.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Translation and Ekphrasis: Dante and the visual arts

Ekphrasis finds words for paintings and other visual phenomena; translation finds words for other words. But how secure in this distinction, given that language has visual form, and that the visual arts can employ language-like elements?

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