Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	821
Title	Crossing Boundaries and Building Identities in Dante's Works, IV
Date/Time	Tuesday 5 July 2022: 16.30-18.00
Sponsor	Centre for Dante Studies / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Organiser	Carmen Costanza, School of Languages, Cultures & Societies - Italian, University of Leeds
	Elisabeth Trischler, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair	Camilla Bambozzi, School of Languages, Cultures & Societies - Italian, University of Leeds
Paper 821-a	'Od ombra od omo certo': Redefining Identities between the Corporeal and the Immaterial (Language: English) Dario Galassini, Department of Italian, University College Cork Index Terms: Language and Literature - Italian; Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Paper 821-b	On the Border of Vices, on the Border of Virtues (Language: English) Bruna Lorenzin, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Torino Index Terms: Language and Literature - Italian; Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Paper 821-c	Boundaries between Human and Divine: The Fall of Adam from Matelda's Smile (Purgatory, XXVIII) to the Tears of the Old Man of Crete (Inferno, XIV) (Language: English) Giulia Bonaldi, Department of Italian, Trinity College Dublin Index Terms: Language and Literature - Italian; Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Abstract	The panel proposes to examine the modes with which Dante Alighieri, in his major work, the Commedia, plays with symmetrical dichotomies such as corporeal and immaterial, human and divine, as well as vices and virtues. In Dante's Commedia, borders and boundaries are at one time the means by which it is possible to define identities and the limit between dichotomies that, through dialogue, can be overcome or integrated.