Program - Società Dante Alighieri Society

La «Dante»
The Dante Alighieri Society Of Edmonton
T
he Dante Alighieri Society,
named after the great poet
and father of the Italian
language, Dante Alighieri (12651321), was founded in Rome, in
1889. The poet Giosuè Carducci
was the foremost inspirer.
The Edmonton Committee was
estblished in 1961 by
Sabatino Roncucci
and, it is one of
the 406 active
committees
throughout the
world. Its main
objective is to
promote the
Italian language
and culture in Edmonton and
Alberta.
In order to reach the objective
above, the Dante Alghieri Society
established a school of Italian
Language and Culture in 1962.
The reasons why students attend
the Dante Alighieri School vary:
trip to Italy, vacation, links of
friendship within the Italian
community, cutural interests,
music, arts, food, fashion,
business, etc… The work of Dante
Alighieri Society of Edmonton is
greatly appretiated by Canadian
Authorities.
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The Dante Alighieri Society
of Edmonton intends to pursue
its obejective for the future,
so that all Edmontonians and
Albertans may enjoy the beauty
and the richness of Italian Culture
and Language in a multicultural
environment, and be exposed to
different cultures and
languages spoken in
Alberta, other than
Italian .
Dante’s Divine
“Comedy”
At the present
the school offers
13 courses
ranging from
Pre-school to
adults. In the
range are also included three
credit courses approved by the
Alberta Education.
All courses run from the first
week of September to the the end
of May on Saturday mornings
9:300 - 12:30 for credit courses
(Italian 10 - 20 - 3-) for a total of
33 classes and, 10:00 - 12:30 for
all classes for total of 31 classes.
Classes are held
at St. Alpnonsus
School (11624
-81 St. NW).
Sunday, 25th October at 3:00 p.m.
The event, organized by The Dante
Alighieri Society of Edmonton,
Location: Italian Cultural Centre
(14230-133 Ave.)
Following the presentation, refreshments
will be available.
Massimo Verdicchio
M
assimo Verdicchio is professor of Italian and Comparative
Literature at the University of Alberta.
He has written widely on Italian and European Literature. He is
the author of books on Dante’s Commedia, and on the philosophy of
Benedetto Croce.
He has recently completed a Croce Reader that will be published by
the University of Toronto Press.
He has translated in English works by Carlo Sini, Massimo
Cacciari and Mario Perniola.
Sandro Botticelli
(Italian), Map
of Inferno
detail, c.148095, Biblioteca
Apostolica
Vaticana, Rome.
E’en in like manner Adam’s evil brood
Cast themselves, one by one, down from the
shore.
Canto III, lines 107, 108.
We have always referred to Dante’s poem as “divine”
reading it as a religious poem that equals the Bible.
I would like to propose a more earthly version where the
emphasis is on “comedy” and what is “divine” is Dante’s
comic or ironic poetry in
Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso.
It bore the sever’d
member, lantern-wise
Pendent in hand, which
look’d at us and said,
“Woe’s me!”
Canto XXVIII, lines 116, 119.