To Hell with Dante

This subject will give students the opportunity to apply and build on skills and knowledge acquired in their study of Italian and to complete and exhibit a final group research project. The subject focuses on the study of the most important Italian literary work: Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy (Inferno). Alighieri is considered the father of the Italian language and his work is one of the pillars of the concept of humanism that has had a huge impact on Western thought.