On Dante and Lorenzo Da Ponte (Worldwide Week of the Italian Language)

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The Italian Academy of Columbia University

Teodolinda Barolini  on the language of Dante; Barbara Faedda on Lorenzo Da Ponte and 200 years of Italian studies at Columbia

Italian Academy, Columbia University

Exactly 200 years ago, the first professorship of Italian was established at this university. It was assigned to Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's brilliant and charismatic libretto writer. The Italian Academy looks back to 1825—in a talk by Barbara Faedda—and reaches back another five centuries—with leading Dante scholar Teodolinda Barolini—to consider the resonance of Dante's language.​In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, as part of the Worldwide Week of the Italian Language.Opening RemarksElena Aprile Centennial Professor of Physics; Director of the Italian Academy, Columbia UniversityClaudio Pagliara Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New YorkSpeakersTeodolinda Barolini Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Italian Department, Columbia University Dante's Linguistic Journey: How it Came to Be that Language is a Human InventionBarbara Faedda Executive Director of the Italian Academy; Adjunct Professor, Italian Department, Columbia University Lorenzo Da Ponte's Legacy: The Early Years of Italian Culture at Columbia<h3>Special exhibition! Handwritten poems and letters by Da Ponte, and books from his library (courtesy of Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library)</h3><h3>Click <a href="https://italianacademy.columbia.edu/events/dante-and-lorenzo-da-ponte-worldwide-week-italian-language" title="https://italianacademy.columbia.edu/events/dante-and-lorenzo-da-ponte-worldwide-week-italian-language" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a> for our website.</h3>Check-in for registrants begins 30 minutes before the event. This event is in-person only. The organizers do not intend to make a video recording for publication.ording for publication.

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