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Join Dr. Jonathan Gross, Columbia alumni and Professor in the Department of English at DePaul for a celebration of his book release! “Mazeppa” is an opera by Tchaikovsky, a poem by Byron (1818), an inspiration for Adam Mickiewicz’s Konrad Wallenrod (1828), and a legendary figure in Pushkin’s Poltava (1829).  In this talk, I explore how Byron identified with a young libertine count, fittingly punished for an adulterous affair by being strapped naked to a wild horse that returned him to his native Ukraine.

Learn more and rsvp here: https://chicago.alumni.columbia.edu/byron_s_mazeppa_in_the_european_imagination_painting_poetry_and_history