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🥸🇮🇹 Dante… Bruno. Vico.. Joyce: When James Joyce was studying Italian at UCD between 1898 and 1902, one of his greatest discoveries was the 16th-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno. Considered a heretic in his own life, Bruno was burned at the stake in Rome and remained a controversial figure long afterwards. By the 1890s, a rehabilitation campaign was underway, including a statue at the site of his death. Joyce admired Bruno's philosophy, and its influence can be traced throughout his later writing, including Finnegans Wake, where Joyce positioned himself within a literary lineage stretching from "Dante… Bruno. Vico.. Joyce". This week, University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin jointly host the Society for Italian Studies conference, marking 250 years of university-level Italian studies in Ireland. Bringing together 300 scholars from around the world, the conference explores the rich literary and cultural ties between Ireland and Italy, with Joyce, Samuel Beckett and even Joyce's UCD Italian lecturer, Fr Charles Ghezzi. 📰 Read Frank McNally's latest Irish Times An Irish Diary entry: https://lnkd.in/ef_djaAz