Reading Dante
With Alberto Manguel
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This lecture will focus on the identity of ‘Io’ in the Commedia. Alberto Manguel gave it the subtitle ‘Io non Enëa, io non Paulo sono’ (I not Aeneas am, I am not Paul). Multiple identities – Dante, the exile; Dante, the poet; Dante, the politician and man of the world – converge in this first person singular, including us, his readers, in a plural like the Eagle of Justice’s ‘io’ e ‘mio’ quand’ era nel concetto e noi e nostro’ (both ‘I’ and ‘My,’ when in conception it was ‘We’ and ‘Our.’)
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BIOGRAPHY
Alberto Manguel is a Canadian writer born in Buenos Aires in 1948. He has published fiction and non-fiction, including Curiosity (on his readings of Dante), With Borges, A History of Reading, The Library at Night and (with Gianni Guadalupi) The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. He has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Guggenheim, the insignia of the Order of Arts and Letters (France), the Formentor Prize, the Alfonso Reyes Prize and the Gutenberg Prize, and he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada. He has honorary degrees from the universities of Ottawa and York, in Canada, Liège, in Belgium, and Anglia Ruskin, in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Until August 2018, he was director of the National Library of Argentina. He is currently director of the Centre for the Study of the History of Reading in Lisbon, Portugal.
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