2024 Fordham Reads Dante Opening Lecture

Join us for an evening with award-winning documentary filmmaker Ric Burns and Riccardo Bruscagli, scholar and co-writer, in conversation about their film, DANTE: Inferno to Paradise.

DANTE: Inferno to Paradise explores the power and drama of Dante Alighieri’s great masterwork, The Divine Comedy. The documentary dives into the riveting life and times of the poem’s maker, the politics and culture of the late middle ages, the birth of the Italian language, and the birth of humanism itself.

A panel discussion will follow the screening of the film.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Co-sponsored by the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and Medieval Studies, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, and the Dante Society of America.