The Georgia Museum of Art, as a means of access to Dante’s masterpiece, “Commedia," and as a guide to understanding his worldview, will "introduce" attendees to Bertran de Born, a 12th-century Provencal poet confined to deepest Hell, and Casella, a friend of the poet encountered in Ante-Purgatory, who set Dante’s poetry to music. This presentation will dramatize the two cantos by Dante––“Inferno” 28 and “Purgatorio” 2, with the assistance of students from UGA’s Department of Theatre and Film Studies. Thomas E. Peterson, professor of Italian at UGA, will give a brief explication of Dante's cantos.
