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A Reading of Inferno Fifth Circle of Hell

Followed by a Lectura Damtis

Collaborative effort with audio-visual assistance presented by:

Dr. Fiorentina Russo and Dr. Anthony Tamburri

INFERNO V

Reading Francesca and Re-thinking Love. Inferno V is one of the most widely read cantos of Dante's trilogy.  Prof. Russo will discuss Dante's discussion of the perils of eros and retrospective on his own participation  in his encounter with Francesca.

Dr. Russo is the Former Assistant Chair of Languages and Literatures and is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Italian program at St. John’s University. She holds a position on the Board Advisors of the Italian Cultural Center at the University.  She is the author of “Dante’s Search for the Golden Age. (Filibrary SUNY, 2011)” and has published several scholarly articles in peer review journals on Dante and has recently collaborated with UPenn’s online Dante encyclopedia.

Dr. Anthony Julian Tamburri is Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College, CUNY and Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures. He has written over one hundred journal articles and book chapters, and fourteen books. Dr. Tamburri earned degrees from Southern Connecticut State University (BS, Italian & Spanish), Middlebury College (MA, Italian), and the University of California, Berkeley (PhD, Italian & Spanish).

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