Dante, Ibn Hamdis and the Persian poets

Dante, Ibn Hamdis and the Persian poets ”; Great cultural event.

In streaming formality which is held on Wednesday 12 May at 18 pm Among the promoters the Via association, which, together with the Civic Museum of Noto, and the Turnè in Sicily and Heracles associations want to highlight the historical link between Islamic culture and the Sicilian world, which gave rise to the great Sicilian Poetic School that influenced the literature of the '300. The meeting will be held by Iman M. Basiri, professor of Italian literature at the University of Tehran, and moderated by Giuseppe Labisi, researcher at the Universities of Kostanz and Bordeaux Montaigne.

At the center of the relationships is the ability of Arab poets to express, through the adoption of an innovative poetic language, their existential dramas, the painful experiences of impossible loves and managed to weave, through panegyrics, the praises of sovereigns and their dynasties . Their poetic production marked the flowering of various literary styles throughout the Mediterranean basin and inspired poets such as Cielo d'Alcamo, Guido Cavalcanti and even Dante, who drew various poetic elements of the "Divine Comedy" from the "Libro della Scala". The philologist Iman M. Basiri will deal with the literary and cultural similarities between the Sicily of the thirteenth century, the Persian lyric, born almost three centuries earlier, and the production of Ibn Hamdis, the greatest Arab singer in Sicily. The meeting can be followed on the Facebook page of the Civic Museum of Noto.

Wednesday 12 May at 18.00 pm

Speaker:

Iman M. Basiri, professor of Italian literature at the University of Tehran

Moderated by:

Giuseppe Labisi, researcher at the Universities of Kostanz and Bordeaux Montaigne

Live on the Face book pages of Civic Museum of Noto.

 

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