Seventh Centenary of the Death of Dante Alighieri

Coinciding with the celebration, in 2021, of Seventh Centenary of the Death of Dante Alighieri (1321-2021)​, more than thirty programmed activities take place within the framework of Madrid Città Dantesca, Which el Círculo de Bellas Artes is a co-organizer. The CBA already offered the inauguration of Madrid Dantesca at the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid and, more recently, the continued reading of the Divine ComedyOver the next few months, el Círculo will also host the ppresentation Dante Alighieri, Comedy (04.10.21) The conference La Painted comedy. Seven centuries of art (05.10.21) The Commedia: the conversation (05.10.21), the lecture series Dante's Women (15.11.21 and 16.11.22) and Lecturae dantis (30.11.21)

Presentation: Dante Alighieri, Comedy (Abada) 

04.10.21 · Valle-Inclán Room · 19:00

Presentation of the edition of the Comedy From Abada Publishers: a bilingual text with illustrations, studies, translation, and notes by Juan Barja and Patxi Lanceros. Includes an essay by Juan Calatrava. Contributors include Valerio Rocco, Fernando Guerrero, Juan Calatrava, Patxi Lanceros, and Juan Barja. 

[Organized by CBA and Abada]

Conference: The Painted Comedy. Seven centuries of art 

05.10.21 · Valle-Inclán Room · 19:00 PM

Led by Juan Calatrava, Professor of Architectural History at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Granada. His research focuses on the Theory and Historiography of Architecture, with works such as The Carceri of GB Piranesi (1986) The theory of Architecture and Fine Arts in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert (1992) Architecture and culture in the Age of Enlightenment (1999)  Studies on the Historiography of Architecture (2005)  Written architecture (2010) Garden and landscape. Intersecting perspectives (2011) and Orientalism. Art and architecture in Granada and Venice (2012), among other publications. 

[Organized by CBA]

La Comedy: The conversation. Dialogue between Patxi Lanceros and Juan Barja   

05.10.21 · Valle-Inclán Room · 20:00 PM

Patxi Lanceros (Bilbao, 1962) is a professor of Political Philosophy and Cultural Theory at the University of Deusto (Bilbao). A regular contributor to various journals and periodicals, his books include: Cultural identities (University of Deusto, 1997), the fate of the gods (Trotta, 2001) or Fragile truths, useful lies: ethics, aesthetics and politics of postmodernity (Hiria, 2000), Politically minded. From revolution to globalization (Anthropos, 2005), Tired modernity and other weariness (New Library, 2006) and Outlaws. Power, justice, and excess. (Abada, 2012) 

Juan Barja is co-founder of Abada Editores and was director ofel Círculo de Bellas Artes until 2019. Poet and essayist, among his latest publications the following should be noted Winter trip (1997) The Blade in the Eye and Other Theoretical Poems (2001) Contemplation of the fall (2001) and End of escape (2004) 

[Organized by CBA]

Lecture series: The Women of Dante

Cycle organized by the Athenaeum of Madrid (Historical Sciences Section and Clara Campoamor Group) and el Círculo de Bellas ArtesThere will be conferences at both institutions, at the CBA:

Matilda

15.11.21 · Ramón Gómez de la Serna Room · 19:00

Rosario Scrimieri (emeritus professor at the UCM) intervenes. Presented by Valerio Rocco

Piccarda and Costanza

16.11.21 · Ramón Gómez de la Serna Room · 19:00

Carlota Cattermole (professor at the Complutense University of Madrid) speaks. Valerio Rocco introduces.

Dantis reading 

30.11.21 · Valle-Inclán Room · 19:00

Valerio Rocco (UAM, CBA): Father, where is God? A reading of canto XXXIII of Parisolation

Participants: Marialuisa Pappalardo, director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Carmen Aldama, actress and theater creator, and Valerio Rocco, director of the CBA.