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SUMMARY:Dante Day 2021 - Dante700 Official Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening event of this anniversary of the passing of “Sommo Poeta” and “Father of Italian Language”\, in a collaborative initiative of the Dante Alighieri Societies of Australia. \nHow Dante Changed my Life from Melbourne to Umbria in a Heart beat\nProfessor Rodney Lokaj PhD\, Laurea\, BA\nThe talk will describe the profound impact Dante Alighieri has had on the speaker\, from the very first lesson he attended in Italian literature in Australia to his many scholarly achievements throughout the entire Italian peninsula and quite beyond\, all while based in a medieval tower just outside Spoleto. \nH.E. Francesca TardioIi Ambassador of Italy \nProfessor Franco Papandrea President DAS Canberra \nDr Joshua Brown\, Convenor Italian Studies ANU \nHosted by the Dante Alighieri Society of Canberra \nat the Italian Cultural Centre 80/82 Franklin Street\, Forrest ACT 2603 \n and as an Online Webinar  \n25 March 2021 – 7pm (Canberra time)\n \nLimited numbers.  \nRegister to attend face to face event at:  \nRegister to attend online event at:  \nRodney Lokaj has full-professor status as recognised by the Italian Ministry of Education. At the University of Enna\, “Kore”\, Sicily\, he is in charge of several courses including: History of the Italian language; Italian linguistics and grammar; and Italian philology. His numerous scholarly publications written in either English or Italian regard: Saint Francis\, Dante\, Petrarch\, Humanism\, Castiglione\, Manzoni\, Verga. He has on-going collaborations for research and publishing with the State Archives of Perugia\, the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua\, and the Vatican Library. He is also an active member of many learned societies throughout the world\, including: the International Society for the Classical Tradition; Societas Studiis Neolatinis Provehendis; Renaissance Society of America; Società Dantesca Italiana; American Philological Association; Accademia degli Ottusi\, Spoleto; Dante Society of America; Deputazione di Storia Patria per l’Umbria; Society of Philologists of Italian Literature; Accademia Petrarca di Arezzo. He sits on the executive board of the American Association of Neo-Latin Studies and several leading academic journals. His most recent publications regard: the Franciscan Canticle of the Creatures; Prospero Intorcetta and Confucius; an unknown Humanist from Spoleto\, Fabio Vigili; emending the classical tradition in Renaissance Italy – Pietro Bembo and Virgil’s Gnat.
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