There will be having a special lunch-time meeting of the Dante Working Group on Monday October 17th, at 12:30 pm in the Romance Languages Lounge, 82-90 Wall St., 3rd Floor.
The guest speaker will be Dr. Eleonora Buonocore who will be speaking on “Political and Ethical Memory in Dante’s Monarchia and Purgatorio” .
Refreshments will be offered, courtesy of the Whitney Humanities Center. If you are planning to come to lunch, please RSVP to danteworkinggroup@gmail.com, so that we can be sure to have enough food for everyone.
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Born and raised in Italy, Eleonora Buonocore obtained her PhD in Italian Literature from Yale in May 2016, working under the direction of Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta. She also holds a BA, MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Siena, Italy, and an MA in Italian from the University of Notre Dame, IN. She has published articles on logic, Raymond Lull and Lullism, Giordano Bruno, Dante, and even Italian film. Her work lies at the intersection between philosophy and literature in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance. She is currently teaching Italian Language and Literature at Colby College, Maine as a Faculty Fellow, while working on her book on Memory in Dante.