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Dante's Purgatorio: Canto III
March 28, 2005
Michelangelo La Luna assistant professor, Italian, URI
Laurie Shepard associate professor, Italian, Boston College

Michelangelo La Luna, an assistant professor of Italian at the University of Rhode Island, reads the third canto of Dante's Purgatorio in Italian. His introductory lecture, in English, analyzes the canto and its position within the larger work.

This program is part of an ongoing public reading of the Divine Comedy organized by the Boston College Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Center for Italian Culture in Newton, Massachusetts.

La Luna is introduced by Laurie Shepard, an associate professor of Italian at Boston College.

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