A reading by three-times poet laureate Robert Pinsky from his English translation of Dante's Inferno:
The Inferno of Dante
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994)
With readings by Italian poets:
Claudio Angelini (President of the Dante Alighieri Society of New York)
Loretto Rafanelli
Musical accompaniment by Marco Cappelli
Introduced by Prof. John Freccero, NYU
This event will be in ENGLISH.
Organized in collaboration with the Dante Alighieri Society of New York
Poetry and the City is a series of bilingual readings and conversations dedicated to contemporary Italian poetry conceived in collaboration with Professor Paolo Valesio and Patrizio Ceccagnoli.
Under the auspices of the Italian Poetry Review.
This event is part of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States