Dante in the world, Dante’s Purgatory: a Russian reading

Lectura Dantis from the Italian Cultural Institute in Moscow | Courier TV

The couple of actors formed by Anna Kiseleva and Filipp Lebedev introduces the topic chosen by the Italian Cultural Institute in Moscow by performing in the complete reading of Canto I del Purgatorio in the translation of the poet Olga Sedakova (in Perevesti Dante, Publisher Ivan Limbach, Sankt Peterburg 2020). A choice that is anything but random, given that it will be she, translator and expert of Dante’s work, to speak of the importance of Dante in Russian culture, of the Russian translations of the Comedy, of the principles that guided his version and finally why he considers Canto I of Purgatory particularly important for the understanding of Dante’s poem.

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