Visions of Dante: Exhibition Preview and Discussion
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12pm to 1pm
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Visions of Dante, an upcoming exhibition at Cornell University’s Johnson Museum of Art (Fall 2021 dates to be announced), will mark the 700th anniversary of the Italian poet’s death.
At this virtual presentation, exhibition co-curators Dr. Laurent Ferri (curator of pre-1800 collections at Cornell Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and Adjunct Associate Professor of Comparative Literature) and Dr. Andrew Weislogel (the Seymour R. Askin, Jr. ’47 Curator, Earlier European and American Art, at the Johnson) will preview selected books and artworks from Cornell collections exploring the visual nature of Dante’s Divine Comedy and its reception. Special guest and Dante scholar Dr. Natale Vacalebre (University of Pennsylvania) will discuss Cornell’s copy of the 1472 Foligno edition, the first printed Divine Comedy, uniquely annotated with commentary and marginal drawings.
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This program, cosponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, will be presented live via Zoom from Cornell’s Carl A. Kroch Library. The CNY Humanities Corridor is a unique regional collaboration between Syracuse University, Cornell University, the University of Rochester, the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium, and other liberal arts schools and colleges in the central New York region. Each institution brings a vibrant and distinguished humanistic scholarly tradition to the collective work of the CNY Humanities Corridor.
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