Dante Scholar To Present Humanities Lecture Tuesday
A distinguished Dante scholar will inaugurate the 19th year of the Humanities Lecture Series at KU and also recognize the 700th anniversary of the birth of Alighieri Dante, renowned Italian poet and author of "The Divine Comedy."
The lecture, "Meditation and Order: Dante's Three Communities," will be given by Joseph A. Mazzeo, professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. It will be at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. The audience is invited to an informal reception by the Faculty Club in the clubrooms after the lecture.
AT 4 P.M., MONDAY, Mazzeo will speak at a coffee-forum in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union, sponsored by Student Union Activities. His topic is "The History of Ideas and the Study of Literature." Informal discussion will follow.
During his three-day visit to the KU campus, the Columbia scholar wil also speak to classes in 16th Century Prose and Poetry, Milton, Political Philosophy, and French Literature to 1600.
"OUR HUMANITIES SERIES is older than Ed Sullivan's show—and that's getting along in years!" Elmer F. Beth, chairman of the Humanities committee, said. "Actually, we are quite sure that we have the oldest continuing lecture series in the humanities in America. It is widely respected, both throughout this country and in Europe, especially England."
In 1948 Mazzeo was a fellow of
the American Council of Learned Societies. He received grants from Guggenheim Foundation and from the American Philosophical Society, and was awarded the gold medal by the Dante Society of Florence, Italy. He has been guest lecturer at John Hopkins, Harvard, Toronto, Brooklyn College, and other colleges. He has taught at Hunter College and at Cornell University.
HE WAS BORN IN 1923 in New York City and received the B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Columbia and studied at Florence and London universities.
About to be published is his latest book, "Renaissance and Revolution: The Transformation of European Thought." He also is author of "Structure and Thought in the Paradiso," "Medieval Cultural Tradition in Dante's Comedy" 1960, and "Renaissance and 17th Century Studies." He edited "Reason and the Imagination: Studies in the History of Ideas, 1600-1803," and was co-editor with Quentin Anderson of "The
Anthropologist To Discuss Syria
The KU Anthropology Club will initiate its yearly meetings with a lecture by Alan W. Horton, a cultural anthropologist working with the Department of State.
Horton will speak on "The Syrian Village; Its Place in the Developing Nation." at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Room 303 Bailey.
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Proper Study: Essays on Western Classics." Mazzeo has also published many articles and reviews in learned journals.
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He is a member of the Renaissance Society of America, the Dante Society of America, the Comparative Literature Association, the Modern Language Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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