‘Visions of Dante’ exhibition opens at the Johnson Museum

“Dante and Virgil in the Bark of Charon, Inferno 3” by Felice Giani (Italian, 1758–1823) courtesy of Rare and Manuscript Collections/Cornell University Library

Cornell Chronicle • Sept. 14, 2021

A new exhibition on the Ithaca campus celebrates the enduring legacy of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) and showcases one of the most significant collections on the writer in the United States. “Visions of Dante” is part of a Central New York Humanities Corridor collaboration with the University of Rochester. The exhibition is supported in part by grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Continue reading....