Activity Type:
Lecture
Presenter:
Dennis Looney
Date:
Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 17:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room 501G
Dennis Looney is a professor of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh, with secondary appointments in Classics and Philosophy. Publications
include: Compromising the Classics (1996); Phaethon’s Children: The Este Court and Its Culture (2005); ‘My Muse will have a story to paint’:
Selected Prose of Ludovico Ariosto (2010); Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (2011). In his current project he considers the recovery and reception of ancient history and its representation in early modern thinking in Europe, examining the relation between history and literature, fact and fiction, storia and fabula.
Please join us for a reception after the talk!
UCIS Unit:
European Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors:
The Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Department of French and Italian
World Regions:
Europe
Western Europe
European Union