Dante Day - exhibition and poetry reading

This year Dante Day (25 March) will be marked by an exhibition of facsimiles of manuscripts of the Divine Comedy. The launch will take place at 4pm in the Yorkshire Room in the Borthwick Institute for Archives. Many of these beautiful books were made by the publishing house Imago in Rimini, and I am delighted to share that Prof. Maria Giovanna Fadiga, the Cultural Director of Imago, will be present at the opening and will speak about the publisher’s work. The exhibition will run until the Festival of Ideas in June.

At 6pm in Heslington Hall (H/G21), the Centre for Medieval Studies will host a poetry reading with Kimberly Campanello, who will read from her ongoing work This Knot – A New Version of Dante’s Commedia with the Poet K. To mark the occasion, a limited edition fine press print of her ‘Purgatorio X’ will be available to those in attendance, produced by Dave Harper at Mischiefe Press. Please note that numbers in H/G21 are limited and available on a first-come first serve basis. After the reading a glass of wine will be served where we can raise a toast to both poets.

Please fill in this form to confirm your attendance. Limited places!