CHE Workshop: “The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages and Dante”, Professor Lino Pertile (Harvard University)

Date: Thursday 20 October, 2016
Time: 3:00pm–5:00pm (afternoon tea served in Tea Room 1.13 from 2.45pm)
Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room 1.33 (First Floor, Arts Building), University of Western Australia
Register: This event is free, but please email Katrina Tap (katrina.tap@uwa.edu.au) to register by 19 October, 2016.

Professor Lino Pertile is Harvard College Professor and Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures. Professor Pertile is a renowned scholar on Italian literature, with a particular focus on the medieval and Renaissance periods. He has also been Director of the Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2010-2015). His extensive list of publications include Dante in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2015), The Cambridge History of Italian Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1996 and 1999) and The New Italian Novel (Edinburgh University Press, 1993).

Event information: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/the-song-of-songs-in-the-middle-ages-and-dante.