OVI Seminar Series 2024, IV

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 10:00 am EST

Investigating the phenomenon of the so-called ‘rhythmic figures’ in Dante through a new database and query platform for the Commedia, which aims at setting up a new, wide catalogue of verses that the poet repeats or remembers and, on the basis of the rhythmic and syntactic model provided to him, varies to derive new ones. One of the results of this research are new clues on the scanning or pronunciation of individual lines of Dante’s work – with internal references that provide us with a sort of score inside the work. After an overview of the new Digital Humanities platform, this talk will offer notes on the performance or the vocal realization of Dante’s verse. Join us on Wednesday, April, 17, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET.

Speaker:
Ryan Pepin is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of York. He was a guest professor at the University of Notre Dame and a Marco Praloran scholar at the Ezio Franceschini Foundation in Florence. He is completing a book on the rhythmic figures in Dante and is beginning another on the interaction between the poetic form of medieval Latin and that of Romance.

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