Scientific seminar on great Italian poet held
Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Academy of Social
Sciences (VASS)’ Institute of Literature and the Italian Embassy in Hanoi
co-organised a scientific seminar on Italian poet Dante Alighieri on the
occasion of his 700th death anniversary.
Scientific reports at the event affirmed the value of Dante
Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and his position in human culture as well as
Italy’s culture and literature in particular.
On the occasion, the institute together with the Italian
Embassy and the VASS’s Social Sciences Publishing House released a new
version of the Inferno section in Divine Comedy, which is one of the literature
initiatives in the action programme signed by the two Governments in May within
the framework of the Italy-Vietnam strategic partnership.
Born in 1265 and passed away in 1321, Alighieri was a great
Italian philosopher, a statesman, writer and poet of the Late Middle Ages. He
pioneered the Renaissance art movement and made a great impact on the world
culture and literature.
In Italy, he was known as a “Supreme Poet”. His epic poem Divine Comedy is considered the greatest
literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of the world literature. With 14,226 lines, the work is divided into three
parts, including hell (Inferno), purgatory (Purgatorio) and paradise (Paradiso), each consisting
of 33 cantos and an initial canto.
Dubbed as a Bible of the Middle Ages, the work played an
important role in founding the literary language and cultural identity of Italy./.