Meeting 1

Friday 9 October 2009
Parliament Hall, St Andrews
Free entry, open to the public
09.30 – Opening of the Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana and welcome by the Principal of the University of St Andrews, Dr Louise Richardson
09.35 – Welcome by the Console Generale d’Italia per la Scozia e l’Irlanda del Nord, Gabriele Papadia de Bottini
09.40 – Introduction – Dr. Claudia Rossignoli (Italian Dept, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews)
09.50 – 11.00 – Inferno Canto I – Professor Zygmunt Baranski (Cambridge)
11.15 – 12.15 – Terza rima in English – Professor Douglas Dunn (School of English, University of St Andrews)
Video
12.15 – Lunch Break
12.15-12.30 – Award Ceremony for the 2009
Scottish University-PREMIO ITALIA
14.00 – 15.10 – Inferno Canto II – Professor Robert Hollander (Princeton University)
Video
15.25 – 16.35 – Inferno Canto III – Dr. Robert Wilson (Italian Dept, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews)
Video
16.50 – 18.00 – Round table discussion – all speakers and Jean Hollander (poet and translator of Dante)
Lectures are followed by a short 15 minute break.