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-10 posts tagged "Dante"
Raymond Ramirez | Friday, February 8, 2019
You’ve seen them shambling across the television screen and in numerous horror films: undead zombies, always hungry for human flesh. The zombie trope seems to be the antithesis of dogmatic theology’s teaching about the afterlife. Traditional destinations for the dead are heaven for the good, hell for the not-so-good, with a side trip to purgatory
Mary Clare Donnelly | Friday, September 28, 2018
Italian studies students can be spotted across campus during Dante Now! at 2:30 p.m. Friday wearing maroon Dante hats and gold laurel crowns reciting passages of the “Divine Comedy” in Italian. The celebration of Dante’s literature begins with a lecture by professor Christian Moevs at 2 p.m. “It’s a brief talk, about 20 minutes, on how
Alexandra Muck | Friday, September 29, 2017
Members of the Notre Dame community will read works of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” in Italian during a flash-mob-style event called “Dante Now!” on Friday at 2 p.m. The participants will perform in groups starting at various locations across campus, and they will convene at the Grotto to read a final excerpt together, after which there will be a lecture
Alexandra Muck | Thursday, November 10, 2016
“I regard Father Zahm as the greatest mind produced by the University in its long career, and perhaps the greatest man in all respects developed within the Congregation of the Holy Cross since its foundation,” former University president Fr. John W. Cavanaugh wrote in The Catholic World in 1922. Fr. John Zahm, who died 95 years
Megan Valley | Monday, October 3, 2016
Adorned with golden leaf crowns, roughly 250 Notre Dame students in Italian language and literature courses performed their fifth annual “Dante Now!” event Friday afternoon at the Grotto. “We got the idea from this group in Florence that was doing it with thousands of people,” research assistant professor Anne Leone said. “That was a theater group,
Emily McConville | Thursday, August 25, 2016
I spent the past two semesters abroad. Which was great; I’ll tell you way too much about it sometime. I did worry, though, about returning to classes at Notre Dame. Would I find them more difficult now? Would I like them? And the eternal question — is taking history and Italian and journalism instead of
Raymond Ramirez | Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Why am I here? The old Baltimore Catechism of my parochial school years had a ready answer (as it so consistently and comfortably did): “To know, love and serve God.” But my current query is of a more specific nature: Why am I here, in the laundry room? Young or old, we’ve all experienced the
Christopher Damian | Thursday, March 31, 2016
A couple of years before he became Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla wrote to a Polish woman: “God gave you to me and made you my vocation.” The letter was one of more than 700 saved letters between he and Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, a Polish-American philosopher he met in 1973. The year before Wojtyla’s
Chris Carbonaro | Monday, October 12, 2015
Amidst the many football-related activities of a fall Friday afternoon, the Italian studies program gave visitors and students alike a much different option last Friday. Students in various Italian classes, donning robes, red cloth caps and golden wreaths on their heads, walked around campus in groups and recited excerpts from the Italian poet Dante’s “Divine Comedy” as
Daniel O'Boyle | Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Dr. Robin Kirkpatrick, poet, professor emeritus of Italian and English Literature at the University of Cambridge and scholar of Dante and the Renaissance, delivered the University’s annual Religion and Literature lecture, titled “The Pace of Praise: Might Theology Walk Together with Literature?” Dr. Kirkpatrick, whose 2006 translation of Dante’s epic poem “The Divine Comedy” has