The exhibition How Does it Feel? Dante’s Emotions Today centres around Dante’s array of conflicting emotions in the Commedia opening scene. Visitors will be fully immersed in Dante’s journey and emotional experience thanks to the original virtual reality rendering of Canto I-II, inspired by the first miniature of the “Dante guarneriano” (a 14th-15th-cent. illuminated manuscript of the Comedy), realized in collaboration with Prof. P. Granata (University of Saint Michael’s College) and the team of students participating in the project “Teaching in the Metaverse.” Then, they will be invited to reconsider these emotions thanks to the explanatory panels written by G. Gaimari and E. Plesnik (University of Toronto) and original artistic material produced by Toronto-based artists that re-actualize these emotions according to individual sensibility, native tongue, and cultural heritage.

Presented with the support of the Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto, the University of Saint Michael’s College, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto, the U of T, Vice-President, International, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.