5/22/2023 0 Comments The divine comedy poem![]() Dante has managed to survive even the “Dantists” (those who specialize in him) of academia. ![]() In Italy, not even the school system has been able to make Dante tedious to generations of students, despite having continuously cast him in a limited light-either as a theological poet or a national figure. Even in smaller universities lacking even one lecturer in Italian Literature, there are still courses on Dante’s Divine Comedy. But one figure was never at issue: Dante. Since then, some of those men have been forced into retirement while a couple women, together with several ethnic or gender minorities, have been able to enter the literary and artistic canon, albeit with difficulty. ![]() Marco Martinelli with the children of Kibera, Kenya, recites Danteīeginning in the 1960s, protests erupted in American universities on the part of students and professors against the so-called “dead white men” who dominated the curriculums of all disciplines. ![]()
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