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Those who made the trip returned with different impressions of the cosmos he depicted, illustrating the <em>Comedy<\/em> in ways that reveal as much about their cultural worlds as Dante\u2019s ideas about the literary, scientific, and philosophical issues of his time.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the early modern period the <em>Comedy<\/em> was read as a foundational text that embraced all areas of human knowledge. Indeed, a young Galileo Galilei in 1588 presented two academic lectures on the precise dimensions of Hell according to Dante\u2019s description of the underworld in the <em>Comedy<\/em>. Using the most innovative methods in mathematics, physics, astronomy and scientific illustration, Galileo demonstrated how scientific inquiry and visualization techniques could be used to reveal not only the architecture of Dante\u2019s poem, but the very fabric of the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Galileo wasn\u2019t the last reader lured by Dante\u2019s <em>Comedy<\/em> into a discussion of moon spots, infernal cartography, celestial bodies, natural philosophy, and the geometry of heaven and earth. Generations of publishers, artists, editors, commentators, translators and readers added their voices to the conversation. Drawing on the special collections of the John Hay Library, and in particular the Chambers Dante Collection, this exhibition reveals how their interpretations of the landmark poem changed over more than four centuries (1350\u20131900). By uncovering how geography, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and theology inspired the poem\u2019s interpretation we can see how the <em>Comedy<\/em> also came to be considered a text of scientific authority in this period. More broadly, the show examines the <em>Comedy<\/em>\u2019s reception in scientific culture and hopes to invite further dialogue about the role of poetry in the sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 82%;line-height: 140%\">Brown University Library Exhibition Credits<br>\n<em>Curator<\/em>: Zoe Langer, Graduate Curatorial Fellow<br>\n<em>Exhibitions Curator<\/em>: Tiffini Bowers<br>\n<em>Graphic Design Production<\/em>: Ben Tyler<br>\n<em>Preparators<\/em>: Marie Malchodi and Erica Saladino<br>\n<em>Research Acknowledgements<\/em>: Brown University Renaissance and Early Modern Studies; Brown University Italian Studies; William Monroe, Senior Scholarly Resources Librarian; Holly Snyder, American Historical Resources Curator; Ronald L. 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