Dante’s Divine Comedy, Canto IX, Purgatorio

Inspired by his visit in 2021 to an exhibition of 100 Lithographs of images based on the Divine Comedy, Peter will be speaking on the moment in Dante’s trip through the afterlife when he goes from observer to participant. 

 

Peter Van Erp grew up outside of Cleveland, son of an engineer and a pediatrician who immigrated from the Netherlands. He received his B.Arch from RISD in 1983. He is currently an architect in solo practice with an office in Providence. He has been an enthusiastic WaterFire volunteer since 1997 and is a boat captain with the Providence River Boat Company. He and his wife Chiara Romano have lived in Providence since he graduated RISD. They have a son, Paolo, and a daughter, Marilyn. He has been a member of First Unitarian Church since the mid ‘90s.

 

Worship Associate: Roxanne Stern

 

Music by Janice Okoomian and Claire Rosenbaum