The Divine Nature. Representations of Landscape in Dante’s Divine Comedy

Passionate about the Divine Comedy? You can't miss this event!

The Regional Museum of Natural Sciences in Turin hosts the presentation of the book La Divina natura. Rappresentazioni del paesaggio nella Divina Commedia (Divine Nature: Representations of Landscape in the Divine Comedy), Padua, Libreriauniversitaria.it, 2025.

The book's curator, Federica Maria Giallombardo, from eCampus University, along with one of the co-authors, entomologist Fulvio Giachino, and the two curators of the Limina series, Professors Ciro Perna, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, and Elisabetta Tonello, from the University of Salerno, will be providing a thorough comment on a breakdown of the new literary interpretations that connect Dante Alighieri's masterpiece with the representation of landscape and natural elements in both words and images.

Insects, plants and other symbols give the poem's landscape a fresh interpretation, as a living, breathing literary element able to spark dialogue and reflect and convey the passions, fears and hopes of the characters around it.

Federica Maria Giallombardo is pursuing a PhD in Mediumship and Mediality-Dante Philology at the eCampus University in Novedrate. She has published literary criticism studies on Vittorio Alfieri and Gabriele d'Annunzio, as well as philology and medieval and Renaissance iconography.

She is a regular speaker at conferences throughout Italy and abroad, as well as being the organiser of the annual Feminae Agentes conference. She is a member of the Centro Internazionale e Interuniversitario MedioEva, an international inter-university centre dedicated to the study of medieval works by female writers and artists.

She has been working as an art critic and curator of contemporary art exhibitions for ten years. She has written quite a number of catalogues, such as those dedicated to Simone Benedetto, Fabrizio Cotognini, Andrea Barzaghi, Giuseppe Mulas, and Maurizio Camerani. She has curated exhibitions in galleries and museums, mainly in Turin.

She is co-founder and vice president of EXHIBI.TO, a cultural association of more than 40 contemporary art galleries in Turin and Piedmont, and coordinates events. Her main role as a curator is to assist artists in their work on site-specific projects and in creating original publications.