Fabian Alfie, lecture, “Cannibalism in Dante’s Inferno,” Judaica Library, 11/9, 3-5 pm.
Fabian Alfie is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on medieval comic literature, and he has published books on on Cecco Angiolieri (2001) and Dante (Dante’s Tenzone with Forese Donati: The Reprehension of Vice, University of Toronto Press, 2011). The literature of insult was viewed as a means to reinforce morality by publicizing and chastising people’s misbehaviors. Therefore, it was considered an ethical art; it was called the literature of “blaming,” which was juxtaposed to the literature of “praise” (for praiseworthy actions and individuals).
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