Dante’s Purgatorio Today (IGRCT Donors' Celebration, in collaboration with the BPI)

Professor Philip Terry (University of Essex) will read some cantos from his recent translation and relocating of Dante’s Purgatorio, where the poet and his guide climb a mountain made out of Flexible Rock Substitute (FRS). Dante's artists are replaced with contemporary artists and artists-in-residence including Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, and Damien Hirst. On the final terrace the poet reaches Dante's Paradise, here modelled on the Eden Project. Philip will discuss the task of translation and translators’ approaches to Dante through the ages with a panel of Bristol academics from Italian, English, Classics, and Translation Studies.

This will be followed by a free wine reception.

Access is via the main entrance at 7 Woodland Road.