Sarah Spence at Harvard UniversityThe Return of Proserpina

Author Sarah Spence, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, discusses her new book The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante (Princeton University Press, 2023) with Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Harvard University. This event, co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Committee on Medieval Studies, is part of the Medieval Studies Seminar’s 2022-2023 series Re-Writing the Middle Ages.


 

Sarah Spence is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. Her books include Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century and Rhetorics of Reason and Desire: Vergil, Augustine, and the Troubadours.