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Carlo Ginzburg on Dante

February 23, 2021
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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“Reproduction/Reproduction: An Experiment in Historical Anthropology”

Carlo Ginzburg, Italian Academy Fellow 2021-22, appears now in a series of online lectures: 

February 23: On Dante: “Reproduction/Reproduction: An Experiment in Historical Anthropology”
March 16: “Moulding the People: Machiavelli, Michelangelo”
April 6: On Montaigne: “The Wave and the Diagram: Depicting Life (and Death)”

In his February 23 talk, Ginzburg argues that the double meaning of the word “reproduction”—biological reproduction, on the one hand; replication of objects, on the other—provides a fruitful approach to some of the crucial themes of Dante’s Inferno, as well as to Dante’s reflection on his own work. 

The University of Pennsylvania is the joint producer of this series—through the Italian Studies section of the Department of Romance Languages, the Center for Italian Studies, and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts.

Carlo Ginzburg (born 1939) has taught at the University of Bologna, at UCLA, and at the Scuola Normale of Pisa. His books, translated into more than twenty languages, include The Night Battles; The Cheese and the Worms; Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method; The Enigma of Piero della Francesca; History, Rhetoric, and Proof; The Judge and the Historian; Wooden Eyes; No Island is an Island; Threads and Traces; Fear Reverence Terror: Five Essays in Political Iconography; and Nondimanco. Machiavelli, Pascal. He received the Aby Warburg Prize (1992), the Humboldt-Forschungs Prize (2007), and the Balzan Prize for the History of Europe, 1400-1700 (2010).

Photo: Monica Biancardi