Join Valerio Ferme, professor of Italian and associate dean for the arts and humanities, for a talk exploring the humanities through the work of Italy’s “three crowns,” Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, and showing how the values that they made central to their writings continue to engage us today, in an age that seems so distant and different from their own. Saturday, Oct. 10, 1 to 3 p.m., Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building, Butcher Auditorium. Part of CU on the Weekend, which is free and open to the public.