Examines the interplay between reading and writing in the works of Petrarch and Dante. Examines the interplay between reading and writing in the works of Petrarch and Dante.
Examines the preservation of the integrity of humanity through literature in the hells described by Dante in his Inferno and by Primo Levi in Survival in Auschwitz.
Argues that academics’ intellectual engagement with a public beyond the walls of their own specialties, and even beyond the walls of the academy, was long a commonplace and significant part of the wor
