ITAL 247: Material Culture in the Middle Ages: Dante's Commedia

Faculty: Jeffrey Schnapp
Location and Date: TBA

An advanced research seminar devoted to Dante's poem on the occasion of 700th anniversary of his death. The course will combine close attention to Dante's text with nuanced attention to strategies of literary allusion, cross-reference, and reworking, and a series of in-depth explorations of the material culture of Dante's era. Among the latter themes will be: pathways and travel, the materiality of the page, the voice, the life of plants, the geology of the landscape.