Readings from Dante's The Divine Comedy
The “Cultural Evenings” return! Just in time for the holiday season…
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 | 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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About This Event

Join us for an evening of readings by Dana Gioia, award-winning and internationally acclaimed poet and chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts since 2003. Mr. Gioia will read several favorite passages from one of the greatest and most loved poems in Western literature, The Divine Comedy. Listen to Audio


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Agenda
5:15 p.m.
Registration
5:30
Introduction:
Michael Novak, AEI
5:40
Reader:
Dana Gioia, National Endowment for the Arts
6:30
Reception
7:00
Adjournment
Event Materials
Readings from Dante's The Divine Comedy
AEI Participants

 

Michael
Novak
  • Michael Novak, a philosopher, theologian, and author, is the 1994 recipient of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. He has been an emissary to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. He has written twenty-seven books on the philosophy and theology of culture, especially the essential elements of a free society. His latest book is No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers (Doubleday, 2008).
  • Phone: 2028625838
    Email: mnovak@aei.org
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