Creatio ad nihilum : Dante’s Alchemic Comedy

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28 April, 2022

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Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja in the DePaul University Department of Catholic Studies 2022 Lecture Series: "Philosophy, Science, and Faith Today" Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja is an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Harvard University. In this position, he is conducting research in medieval hermeneutics and on non-physical violence and satire, working at intersections of literature, art and legal history. He is the author of a number of studies on Dante’s Commedia and Convivio, on medieval dream-books, and the medieval reception of the parable theory, and on Auerbach’s figural interpretation. He authored two monographs on the lore of Alexander the Great in medieval and early modern Italy.