Since 1978, Professor Teodolinda Barolini has taught her famous “Dante in a Year” course, reading The Divine Comedy with students across a full academic year. Take the leap beyond Inferno with one of the world’s eminent scholars of Dante and Italian literature as she becomes the Virgil to your Dante, leading students and members of the public up the mountain of Purgatory.

On Wednesday, September 16, at 6 PM, join Teodolinda Barolini, the Lorenzo da Ponte Professor of Italian at Columbia University, as we leave behind that sea so cruel on the vessel of the poet’s genius. Before the lecture, participants should read canti 1–3 from Purgatorio.