2024 Dante Lecture: Dante and Beatrice
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2024 Dante Lecture: Dante and Beatrice

Join us for this year's Dante lecture presented by Prof. George Corbett, Professor of Theology, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews

Date and time

Wednesday, November 6 · 6 - 7:30pm EST

Location

University of St. Michael's College

81 Saint Mary Street Toronto, ON M5S 1J4 Canada

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

Please join us on November 6 for this year’s Dante Lecture: "Dante and Beatrice", presented by Professor. George Corbett, Professor of Theology, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews. The lecture established by Alberto Di Giovannand Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni will take place from 6pm to 7:30pm in Alumni Hall, Room 400, with a reception in the John M. Kelly Library to follow.

Prof. Corbett will present an engaging lecture on Dante’s Beatrice, her identification as the Florentine woman Beatrice by Boccaccio and how this was contested during the first 400 years of Dante’s reception history, culminating in Biscioni’s edition of the prose of Dante and Boccaccio.

Please confirm your attendance and register today!

Before the lecture, be sure to visit Dante Garden which features a life-sized sculpture of Dante along with each of the 100 cantos in the Divine Comedy. Located at the northeast corner of Queen’s Park Circle and St. Joseph Street, Dante Garden has been made possible by patrons The Honourable Maurizio Bevilacqua P.C. and Tony and Lina Gagliano, and supporters Ms. Margaret A Brennan, Ms. Mary T. Brennan, Ms. Joan Brennan, Mrs. Clorinda Pirro, Mr. Edmond F Vanhaverbeke, Ms. Sylvia Lisk Vanhaverbeke, Mr. Alberto Di Giovanni and Mrs. Caroline F. Di Giovanni, Mr. Joseph M. Tanzola and Mrs. Marcella Tanzola, and The Heaslip Family Foundation.

George Corbett is Professor of Theology, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews. Prior to joining the School of Divinity in 2015, he held positions as Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Trinity College, and Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge, where he taught English literature, Italian literature, and theology. He received his BA (double first), MPhil (distinction), and PhD (AHRC-funded) from the University of Cambridge. He also studied in Pisa as an Erasmus-Socrates exchange scholar at La Scuola Normale Superiore, in Rome at the Institutum Pontificium Alterioris Latinitatis, and in Montella at the Vivarium Novum. He directs CEPHAS (a Thomistic Centre for Philosophy and Scholastic Theology) and TheoArtistry (a project linking up theologians and artists), and co-directs the collaborative MLitt in Sacred Music. Prof. Corbett has two principal areas of research: theology and the arts (with a focus on the theologian-poet Dante Alighieri) and historical and systematic theology (with a focus on Aquinas’ theology and its influence, and on Catholic theology).

If you have questions or require accommodations during your visit, please contact us at smc.alumniaffairs@utoronto.ca.

We look forward to experiencing "Dante and Beatrice" together!

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University of St. Michael's College
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St. Michael’s was established in 1852 by the Basilian Fathers to serve the growing Catholic population in Toronto, educating the children of immigrants who had come to Canada in search of a better life for their families. Historically rooted in the educational mission shaped by the Basilians, the Sisters from the Congregations of St. Joseph and Loretto and other key community members, St. Michael’s seeks to build a transformational faith and learning community committed to the search for truth and meaning in our contemporary world. Our graduates are leaders in their communities, effecting positive change that respects and honours the dignity of all.

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