Description
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was the greatest poet of the Middle Ages; Divine Comedy was his masterpiece. In this lecture, Timothy Graham describes Dante’s stormy political career, his love for the mysterious Beatrice, and his revolutionary new poetic technique. He analyzes the first canticle, which describes Dante’s journey through the nine circles of Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. The lecture is illustrated with slides of Gustave Doré’s magnificent engravings.
Timothy Graham is a distinguished professor of history and a regents’ professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNM. He served as director of the Institute for Medieval Studies 2002-2020, organizing the acclaimed annual Medieval Spring Lecture Series. He holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees from Cambridge and an MPhil from the Warburg Institute, University of London. He is the coauthor of Introduction to Manuscript Studies.