JANUARY PROGRAM - Peter Goodell
At the January meeting, Peter Goodell of Filitalia International Hunterdon County Chapter, will present "Dante: The Man, the Politics, and the Divine Comedy", an examination of Dante Alighieri and his most well known work, the Divine Comedy, considered one of the greatest poems in world literature. Peter will examine the man, his life, the political and religious circumstances of the late 13th century in Florence, the Italian Peninsula and Western Europe, the Poem, its themes, neologisms, and a brief discussion of one canto from "Inferno", as well as some depictions by famous artists. |