I have been privileged to have been involved in teaching a subject called Dante’s Medieval World on no fewer than four occasions in Prato, initially in January 2010, and then on three separate occasions in a four-week block during November/December 2011, 2013 and 2015. Each experience has been different, not least because each time the students have been different, new ideas have been tried out, and a different set of teachers has been involved. The idea of offering a unit on medieval culture was initially seen as a complement to another unit, The Renaissance in Florence, taught on location in Florence by Associate Professor Peter Howard (Director of the Monash Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) since 1996.
Da qui all’eternità. Il viaggio di Clara Calamai verso la celebrità (di Rossana Cavaliere)
Ci fu un tempo in cui il cinema era fiaba, era mito ed epos e le sue straordinarie possibilità di raffigurazione del ‘meraviglioso’ entusiasmavano scrittori ‘avanti’ come D’Annunzio. Il cinema rappresentava la vetrina sul mondo, la scoperta del lontano, dell’altro da...