The series of conferences “In the footsteps of Dante in Istria and beyond” by Valentina Petaros Jeromela, PhD in Modern Literature with specialization in Italian philology and Dante criticism, senior archivist and president of the Dante Alighieri Society Slovenia – Capodistria Committee, continues successfully. The philologist was a guest of the Italian Community of Cittanova, where she intrigued the large audience, anxious above all to find out whether Dante, during his pilgrimages, had actually reached the Istrian peninsula. Cristina Fattori, president of the hosting association, welcomed the speaker, reiterating her satisfaction at being able to discuss at the...

Ten years have passed since a prestigious facsimile edition published at the instigation of the late Silvano Sau brought back to the headlines two precious Dante codices from the late fourteenth century copied in Isola, then a town of the Serenissima: a story that tells us about the ancient cultural traditions of Istria and the centuries-old popularity and diffusion of Dante's poem. Since then, Isola has had no shortage of initiatives aimed at valorizing this ideal legacy. And now there is also an Interreg project, "Dante", of which the Municipality of Isola d'Istria is the leader, which aims to promote the figure of the poet through the creation of literary itineraries working together with partners...

Made available by the Dante Alighieri Society of Rome, "Dove il sì suona" has landed in Koper, an exhibition on the centuries-old history of our language that has already stopped in many cities around the world, including Istrian Pola, cited by Dante in some famous verses of the Divine Comedy. The exhibition was born as a traveling version of the great exhibition organized in Florence in 2003 by Luca Serianni, an eminent linguist who was vice president of the historic Society founded by Giosuè Carducci, a point of reference for learning Italian abroad, until his premature death. The exhibition, now set up at Palazzo Gravisi by the Committee of...

As part of the initiatives for the seventh centenary of Dante, the Dante Alighieri Society has recently published the collection of essays and interviews “Dante according to her”, a work edited by Giuliana Poli that provides ideas and contributions for a reading of Dante from a different and original perspective. The volume can be freely consulted online or downloaded in PDF format: Giuliana Poli, Dante according to her, Società Dante Alighieri, Rome 2022, 304 pp. Among the 100 contributions that characterize the work, we would like to highlight in particular the interview with Valentina Petaros Jeromela (philologist and Dante scholar, translator of the Divine Comedy into Slovenian and President of the Committee of...

On the occasion of Dantedì and the end of the Dante year, which celebrated the seven hundredth anniversary of his death, the Italian Community “Santorio Santorio” of Capodistria paid homage to the Supreme Poet by presenting the translation of the Divine Comedy, accompanied by the commentary, in the Trieste dialect. The author of the monumental work, Nereo Zeper, after declaiming the canto that tells the story of Count Ugolino, retraced the almost 25 years spent “in the company of Dante” to fully understand his message and above all to find the right terms and metrics to render the three canticles and the stories they tell in the Trieste dialect. A...