IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 521: Crossing Boundaries and Building Identities in Dante's Works, I
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Centre for Dante Studies / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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| Organisers: | Camilla Bambozzi, School of Languages, Cultures & Societies - Italian, University of Leeds Carmen Costanza, School of Languages, Cultures & Societies - Italian, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Elisabeth Trischler, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Paper 521-a | Exul inmeritus: Political Borders as Boundaries of Identity (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Political Thought |
| Paper 521-b | Crossing the Boundaries between Past, Present, and Future: The Relationship between Dante and the City of Verona (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 521-c | Spiritual Exiles: Dantean Echoes in Amelia Rosselli's Mystical Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | The experience of exile is a central theme in Dante Alighieri's later works. The poet, indeed, is the exile by definition: in a literal sense, as he was obliged to leave Florence in 1302, after the defeat of the White Guelfs; but also in a literary sense, as he becomes the peregrinus in his Commedia. The panel proposes to examine how the experience of exile played a crucial role in Dante's later production, and how the condition of exile becomes a structural element for his poetry and life. |