Variations on the Quartet
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Year: 2020
- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Sbolognare”
Today’s word is SBOLOGNARE, Italian for passing on a task to someone else.
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Purgatorio 16: The Poem’s Moral Center
Elizabeth Coggeshall (Florida State University) in conversation with Deborah Parker (The University of Virginia)
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Inferno 1: In the Dark Wood: Lost, but not Alone
Joseph Luzzi (Bard College) in conversation with Christian Dupont (Boston College)
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Parole Parole: “Acqua”
Today’s word is ACQUA, Italian for “water.”
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- Canto per Canto
Paradiso 13: Charting Wisdom
Ron Herzman (SUNY Geneseo) in conversation with Gary Towsley (SUNY Geneseo)
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Purgatorio 30: Loss and Reunion in the Earthly Paradise
Francesca Southerden (University of Oxford) in conversation with Lachlan Hughes (University of Oxford)
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Fiasco”
Today’s word is FIASCO, Italian for “flask” and used everywhere to mean “failure.”
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- Canto per Canto
Inferno 15: Dante Among the Sodomites
Peter Hawkins (Yale) in conversation with Gary Cestaro (DePaul University)
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Paradiso 23: Preview of the Finale
Fr. James Torrens in conversation with Brenda Schildgen (University of California Davis)
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Parole Parole: “Birbante”
Today’s word is BIRBANTE, Italian for naughty.
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Purgatorio 19: Stasis and Motion: False and True Images
Olivia Holmes (Binghamton University) in conversation with Véronique Plesch (Colby College)
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Inferno 27: An Offer He Couldn’t Refuse
Ron Herzman (SUNY Geneseo) in conversation with Bill Stephany (The University of Vermont)
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