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University, Mazzotta was a Lenna Visiting Professor at St. Bonaventure in
1998.
Mazzotta offered public presentations March 13 and
15, 2013, and gave
three presentations
to classes and the
campus community
the following week.
Mazzotta’s scholarship on Dante includes a special
emphasis on Franciscan studies. His
many books include “Dante: Poet of the
Desert,” “Dante’s Vision and the Circle
of Knowledge,” “The Worlds of Petrarch,” and “The World at Play: A Study
of Boccaccio’s Decameron.”
Mazzotta, who earned his Ph.D. at
Cornell University, has lectured on Italian
literature and philosophy all over the
world.
“I am delighted to be returning to
one of the great centers of Franciscan
culture and engaging with your Franciscan community of students and
scholars,” Mazzotta said. Mazzotta
taught at Cornell and the University of
Toronto before joining the faculty at
Yale. He served as president of the
Dante Society of America from 2003 to
2009.

Visiting professor delivers
lecture on Dickinson, Civil War
Lenna Visiting Professor Benjamin
Friedlander delivered a lecture on Emily
Dickinson and the Civil War Nov. 8,
2012, in the William F. Walsh Science
Building.
Friedlander is a poet, editor and
scholar. His books of poetry include
“One Hundred Etudes” (Edge Books,
2012), “Citizen Cain” (Salt Publishing,
2011) and “The Missing Occasion of
Saying Yes” (Subpress, 2007). He is
also the author of “Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism” (University Alabama Press, 2004) and the editor, most
recently, of “Robert Creeley's Selected
Poems, 1945-2005” (University of California Press, 2008). Since 1999, he has
taught American literature and poetics
at the University of Maine.

Authors share how to ‘sweep out’
injustice using peaceful methods
By Julia Andretta, ’15
On Oct. 9, 2013, Edna Gordon, a noted
Seneca Nation elder, spoke about her new
book of indigenous teachings, “A Broomstick
Revolution,” to a packed Walsh Science Center
auditorium.
Joining her was her
publisher, Harvey Arden,
who has also authored
several books on indigenous wisdom. The program was jointly
sponsored by Olean Public
Library and St. Bonaventure’s Department of Political Science.
Arden told the story of
how he became acquainted with “Grandma
Gordon” and described
the philosophy of “ ) ɽ