In collaboration with the Romance Language and Literatures department, Burns Library will host programming and book display for the celebration of "Dante Day" ('Dantedì'), an annual commemoration of Italy's most celebrated poet and writer, Dante Alighieri. March 25 was chosen as it is recognized by scholars as the day the poet started his journey in the afterlife in the Divine Comedy.

5:30pm: Lecture: "The Poet's Blessing and Dante's Divine Comedy", Laurie Shepard, Professor Emerita, Boston College
6:00pm: Book display
6:30pm: Lecture: "No Child's Play? Childhood in Dante's Divine Comedy", Professor Erminia Ardissino, Università di Torino-Harvard Divinity School

Light refreshments will be served throughout the evening.