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Franco Ferrucci
2003 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Dante and Italian Studies

A Reading by Franco Ferrucci Monday, September 15, 2003 at 7:00 p.m. 102 Hesburgh Library University of Notre Dame Co-sponsored with the Department of Romance Languages, the Creative Writing Program, and the Medieval Institute.

Franco Ferrucci is a noted author and literary critic. He taught seminars on Dante (LLRO/ROIT 411B Dante's Inferno: The Prison) and the Italian Romantic poet Giacomo Leopardi (LIT 541I European Romanticism) during the Fall 2003 semester at the University of Notre Dame.

For a sample of Prof. Ferrucci's fiction, click here to read "Flames".

Ferrucci's books include:

• 1999: Le due mani di Dio: il cristianesimo e Dante [The Two Hands of God: Christianity and Dante]

• 1998: Il formidabile deserto: lettura di Giacomo Leopardi [The Formidable Desert: reading Giacomo Leopardi]

• 1996: The Life of God: (As Told by Himself)
  – University of Chicago Press review
  – Seminary Co-op Bookstore review

• 1996: Lontano da casa [Far Away from Home]

• 1990: Il poema del desiderio: poetica e passione in Dante [The Poem of Desire: Poetics and Passion in Dante]

• 1989: I satelliti di Saturno [Saturn's Moon]

• 1986: Il mondo creato

• 1980: The Poetics of Disguise: The Autobiography of the Work in Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare

• 1974: L'assedio e il ritorno: Omero e gli archetipi della narrazione [The Siege and the Return: Homer and the Archetypes of Narration]

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