WEEK OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD 2021
Calligraphy Workshop
Thursday, October 21 | 2:00PM EDT
Charbonnel Lounge | St. Michael’s College | Toronto, ON
Free Event | Registration Required
Please note that all Covid-19 Protocols will be observed
As part of the series of events celebrating Week of the Italian Language in the World, the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with St. Michael’s College, Massey College, and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto, presents A Journey through the Centuries: The Making of Dante Guarneriano; a series of events to celebrate the father of the Italian language, Mediaeval poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, and his groundbreaking trilogy, the Divine Comedy, in the year that marks the 700th anniversary of the passing of the “sommo poeta”.
This event in the series consists of a calligraphy workshop open to the public. Amanuenses of the Scriptorium Foroiuliense, specialized in Medieval historical scripts such as Gothic Textura, Uncial, Beneventan, Carolingian, will lead the workshops at St. Michael’s College and Massey College.
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