September 22, 2015 – The Italian Institute of Culture in Tirana, the Albanian National Library and the National Union of Albanian Blind People are promoting the special event “the Dante of Albania.” A series of exhibitions, lectures and readings scheduled for 13-18 October. A six-day festival that celebrates the 750th anniversary since Dante’s birth, and just one of the many initiatives around the world to commemorate the founding father of the Italian language. But Tirana’s event promises to be a discovery of a very special Dante, the Albanian Dante, thanks to an exhibition of the texts of the poet translated into Albanian and a reading of Dante texts. In Tirana, the festival will also feature the first version of the Albanian Braille Divine Comedy. Finally, there will also be a conference (on October 13 from 11am to 2pm at the National Library of Tirana) with Rino Caputo, professor of Italian Literature at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Caputo works with major magazines of Italian literature and is co-editor of the international journal “Dante. International Journal of Dante Studies “.
