Events
Dante’s Passionate Intellect: The Divine Comedy’s Journey of Desire
A lecture by Prof. George Corbett (University of St. Andrews)
When:
November 20, 2025 | 12:00 AM EST
Location:
Location TBA
Chapter:
Trinity College Dublin
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
George Corbett is Professor of Theology at the University of St Andrews, and the Director of Cephas (a Thomistic Centre for Philosophy and Scholastic Theology). He researches and teaches theology and the arts (with specialisms in Dante studies, sacred music, and theological aesthetics) and historical theology (with specialisms in medieval theology, Aquinas’s theology and its influence, and Catholic theology). His books include Dante’s Christian Ethics (2020), Dante and Epicurus (2013), and, as editor or co-editor, Vertical Readings in Dante’s ‘Comedy’ (2015-18), Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twentieth-Century (2019), and Music and Spirituality: Theological Approaches, Empirical Methods, and Christian Worship (2024).