Events Schedule
The (non) Myth: Dante, Florence and Boccaccio
- Time
- 6pm - 7pm
- Date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Duration
- 1 hour(s)
- Location
- Main Quad - North Wing, Council Room
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- Presenters
Prof. Paolo Rigo, Università Roma Tre
- Category
- Seminar
- Cost
- Free
- Registration Required
- No
- Organising Department
The Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland (CDSI), the Department of Italian UCC, and CASiLaC
In this lecture he will interrogate how Florence creates certain expectations in the reader, especially in early commentators such as Boccaccio, who constructs a personal myth: Dante the Florentine. In developing this myth, Boccaccio even goes so far as to distort the literal truth, as happens in his exposition of Inferno X.