24 June, 2015 – “Dante, Ulysses and the New World” offers a series of fascinating routes to explore with Professor Piero Boitani, in a conference at the Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires scheduled for Tuesday, July 7 (6.30pm). The meeting was organized by the Institute in collaboration with the municipality of Buenos Aires. Boitani, renown hilologist, writer and literary critic, will talk in his capacity as a distinguished Dante scholar about how the myth of Odysseus described in Dante’s Inferno, In particular, he will look at how this myth influenced the great explorers who first surveyed the New World. Boitani teaches “Comparative Literature” at the Sapienza University in Rome and is member of the Accademia dei Lincei and the British Academy. Among his most recent books there are: “La prima lezione sulla letteratura”, Letteratura europea e Medioevo volgare”, “Il Vangelo secondo Shakespeare”, “Il grande racconto delle stelle” and “Riconoscere è un dio” (2014). (Red)
