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This event will also be livestreamed. Please contact Laura Banella at laura.banella@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk for the watch live link.
1. 'Dante at Oxford: the Lyrics and Convivio'. The talk will build on the materials gathered in the digital exhibition: Dante’s Lyric Poetry in Oxford (https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/dantes-lyric-poetry-oxford).. By exploring the books today in Oxford and the editorial strategies and reader responses they preserve, it will illustrate the reception of Dante as lyric poet.
2. 'Dante at Oxford: Myths, Manuscripts and Collections'. This talk outlines the development of the legend that Dante actually visited the University and illustrates the poet's presence here: in manuscripts donated to the University; in early printed texts; and in a wide range of Bodleian and College acquisitions.
Dr Laura Banella, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.
Project LyrA - Lyric Authority: Editing and Rewriting Dante’s Lyric Poetry (14th – 16th c.).
Prof. Nick Havely, Emeritus Professor of English & Related Literature, University of York. Author of Dante's British Public: Readers & Texts, from the Fourteenth Century to the Present (Oxford University Press).
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