(28 November, 2016) Carlo Ossola, Professor at the University of Geneva, Padova and Turin, also teaches at Collège de France. His field is Italian literature, linguistics, comparative literature and the history of ideas. Today he is a guest at the Italian Cultural Institute of Paris today at 18:30. His work “Introduction to the Divine Commedy” (Editions du Félin) will in fact be presented. Alongside the linguist and literary critic, French writer and translator, René de Ceccatty and Pasquale Porro, professor of the history of medieval linguistics at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. The talk will be moderated by Michele Canonica, journalist and president of the Paris Dante Alighieri Society. The conference was in fact organised in collaboration with the Dante Alighieri Society. According to Ossola, in order to understand Dante today, “it is necessary to have his same thirst for essentiality, his yearning to cross the limit in order to place his verse as the seal and foundation of a word spoken forever”. Among other works by Ossola are “Cortegiano”, “Uomo di mondo” (essays), “Figurato e rimosso” (Il Mulino, 1988), “Miroirs sans visage (Le Seuil, Paris, 1997). He ha salso edited an anthology of Italian poetry with Cesare Segre (Einaudi ‘Biblioteca della Pléiade’ and ‘Einaudi Tascabili’). (red)
