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2002 SPRING LECTURES
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“Francesca (Inferno V) and Ugolino (Inferno XXXIII):
A Measure of Our Affections”
a lecture and reading by Robert and Jean Hollander
Thursday, February 7, 2002 at 7:00 p.m.
LaFortune Ballroom, University of Notre Dame
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This lecture was video taped and is available in through streaming video in two resolutions: low (56K modem connection recommended) and high (network, ISDN or cable connection recommended). You will need to have Windows Media Player installed on your computer (Mac or PC) to be able to watch the video — the software can be obtained free at WindowsMedia.com.
The translation of Dante's Inferno began with Robert Hollander's attempt to modernize John Sinclair's 1939 prose translation for a computer project at Princeton. His wife, Jean Hollander, looked at his manuscript and asked, "What is it? It's awful," and, when told, pronounced it "unsayable." She took it away and in two days returned with a version of the first canto. The collaborative project of this husband and wife team began.
Robert, a Dante scholar, and Jean, a poet, admit that their different influences led to disagreements, but ironically they successfully survived hell and continue to translate The Divine Comedy. Purgatorio and Paradiso are scheduled for publication in 2002.
The Hollanders' lectures and seminars are co-sponsored by the Devers Program in Dante Studies, the Core Course Program, the Student Union Board Sophomore Literary Festival, and the Medieval Club. Other events include:
"Crushed into Honey, Moondog" — a poetry workshop by Jean Hollander
Friday, February 8, 2002 at 10:00 a.m.
O'Shaugnessy Conference Room (next to Waddicks)
"Dante's Pride" — a seminar with Robert Hollander
Friday, February 8, 2002 at 10:30 a.m.
Department of Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh Library
"Virgil's Hard Afterlife" — a lecture by Robert Hollander
Monday, February 11, 2002 at 10:30 a.m.
Notre Dame Room, LaFortune
"Crushed into Honey, Moondog" — a poetry reading by Jean Hollander
Monday, February 11, 2002 at 12:00 noon
The Hammes (Notre Dame Bookstore)
Robert Hollander is Professor of European Literature in the Department of Romance Languages at Princeton University. He is founder and director of the Dartmouth Dante Project and the Princeton Dante Project. He served as president of the Dante Society of America and was a founding member of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities.
Robert Hollander has written, translated, or edited twenty-four books and seventy scholarly articles including Allegory in Dante's Commedia (1969), Studies in Dante (1980), Dante's Letter to Cangrande (1993), Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire (1997), and Dante: A Life in Works (Yale 2001). He has received numerous honors and awards including the 1988 Gold medal of the City of Florence, in recognition of his work on Dante.
Jean Hollander
has taught poetry at several colleges and universities, and is currently Director of writers' conferences at The College of New Jersey. Her first book of poems, Crushed into Honey, won the Eileen W. Barnes Award in 1986. Her second collection of poetry titled Moondog, won recognition in the International Poetry Book Competition sponsored by The Quarterly Review in 1996.
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“Written in Effigy: Speaking Pictures in
Stilnovo and Petrarchan Lyric”
a lecture by Ronald L. Martinez, University of Minnesota
Thursday, April 4, 2002 at 4:30 p.m.
Department of Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh Library,
University of Notre Dame
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Ronald L. Martinez is Professor and Director of the Italian Program at the University
of Minnesota. With Robert Durling, he has published Time and the Crystal, a study of Dante's rime petrose, and a new translation and commentary of DanteÕs Divine Comedy. Martinez has published numerous articles regarding medieval and early modern Italian
culture and literature, including important essays on Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Machiavelli. His current projects include a study of theatrical space in early modern Italy
and an examination of melancholy and lamentation in the writing of Dante.
Individual home page at the University of Minnesota (includes list of publications)
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“Dante's Piccarda as Proserpina”
a lecture by John Kerr, University of Notre Dame,
co-sponsored with the CORE Course Program
Tuesday, April 23, 2002 at 12:30 p.m.
Café de Grasta (first floor of Grace Hall, in the meeting room)
University of Notre Dame
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John Kerr is currently a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame.
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