American Dante Bibliography for 2003
[Originally published in Dante Studies, vol.122 (2004)]
STEVEN BOTTERILL
This bibliography is intended to included all publications on Dante (books, articles, translations, reviews) appearing in North America in 2003, as well as reviews from foreign sources of books published in the United States and Canada. The listing of reviews is necessarily selective, especially in the case of studies bearing only peripherally upon Dante. Items not recorded in the bibliographies for previous years are entered as addenda to the current list; items from 2003 not identified in time for inclusion in the list will be added in future issues of the journal. I extend my thanks to my research assistant, Ryan Maddox, for his invaluable help.
BOOKS
Brittan, Simon. Poetry, Symbol, and Allegory. Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2003.
Discusses Dante’s use of allegory and symbolism, making particular use of the Convivio and the canzone on the death of Beatrice, and explores how these techniques provide guidance for the reader seeking to understand his poetry. This dual allegorical and literal meaning was new to readers of poetry in Dante’s time, but, despite many of the poems being deeply wrapped up allegory, readers were and are still able to appreciate their lyricism.
Cestaro, Gary P. Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003.
Cestaro “investigat[es] the function of the nursing body in Dante,” drawing upon different forms of philosophical analysis, especially contemporary French, as well as psychoanalytical and feminist theory. Particular attention is paid to Julia Kristeva’s theory of semiotics in the wake of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The author is especially interested in the consequences for the interpretation of the notion of dependence on the female in Dante’s works, with its corollary that a male can never be considered such if he never loses his dependence to the female.
Dante Alighieri. Edited by Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2003. 300 p. (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
In the introduction to this collection of critical articles, some new and some reprinted, Bloom describes Dante’s standing in relation to other major poets. He also discusses how Dante’s place in the literary canon is affirmed by other poets, and how he is regarded in modern times as the Christian poet.
Dante for the New Millennium. Edited by Teodolinda Barolini and H. Wayne Storey. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. 498 p. (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies, 2)
Collects a group of articles from the Dante2000 Conference held at Columbia University on April 7-9,
Dante: The Critical Complex. Edited with introductions by Richard Lansing. 8 vols. Routledge: New York & London, 2002. Volume titles: 1: Dante and Beatrice: the Poet’s Life and the Invention of Poetry. x, 426 p.; 2: Dante and Classical Antiquity: the Epic Tradition. xi, 416 p.; 3: Dante and Philosophy: Nature, the Cosmos, and the Ethical Imperative. xi, 380 p.; 4: Dante and Theology: the Biblical Tradition and Christian Allegory. viii, 424 p.; 5: Dante and History: from Florence and Rome to the Heavenly Jerusalem. xi, 420 p.; 6: Dante and Critical Theory. x, 432 p.; 7: Dante and Interpretation. xi, 414 p.; 8: Dante’s Afterlife: the Influence and Reception of the Commedia. xii, 418 p.
A compendium of previously published articles and essays by major Dante critics. The collection is organized by theme and covers the entire range of Dante’s literary works. The texts, representing the American and British critical heritage and dating from post World War II to the present, appear in their original format. The editor provides a general introduction to the series as well as topical introductions for each set of articles.
David, Nicolette. Love, Hate, and Literature: Kleinian Readings of Dante, Ponge, Rilke, and Sarraute. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2003. 225 p. (Reshaping of Psychoanalysis)
Employing Klein's insights into infantile fantasy, the author focuses on Dante and three modern writers who, she argues, exemplify a Kleinian transformation of fantasies into literary texts. Particularly pertinent for a study of Dante are remarks showing how Klein’s model helps the reader interpret Dante’s fantasies of gratification and frustration through an examination of patterns of imagery.
Mirsky, Mark Jay. Dante, Eros, & Kabbalah. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2003. 234 p.
Discusses connections with Jewish mysticism in Dante’s work (especially with the Zohar of Moses de Leon, whose ideas may have had some influence on Dante), and considers the possibility that Dante’s relationship with Beatrice was not simply erotic but sexual in nature.
Newman, Barbara. God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry and Belief in the Middle Ages. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. xiii, 446 p.
Referring briefly to Dante’s conception of Beatrice as an earthly goddess, the author claims that the poet embraces a mystical rather than courtly concept of love, arguing that in the Vita Nuova and in Paradiso Beatrice incarnates and unites Amor and Caritas through her death.
Pearl, Matthew. The Dante Club: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2003. 400 p.
Pearl crafts a fictional murder mystery involving a group of Harvard professors in Cambridge circa 1865 several of whom would later become founding members of the Dante Society of America. As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow works on his translation of the Divine Comedy for an American readership, the group is beset by a series of murders that appear to re-enact scenes from Inferno. Highly readable simply as a mystery, the book reveals a detailed and accurate understanding of Dante’s work, his cultural presence in nineteenth-century Boston society, and the origins of the Dante Society.
ARTICLES
Addison, Catherine. “Little Boxes: The Effects of the Stanza on Poetic Narrative.” Style 37:2 (2003), 124-143, 251.
Discusses the use and effects of the stanza in the discourse of narrative poetry, referring to Dante’s text only for specific examples of the use of terza rima. Addison claims that the stanza creates a tension when used in epic works such as Dante’s, which provides for the possibility of “forward extension,” and argues that the specific effect of the use of Dante’s stanza is equivalent to that of Milton’s blank verse in Paradise Lost.
Ahern, John. “What did the First Copies of the “Comedy” Look Like?” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 1-15.
Considers how Dante originally promoted and circulated his works, while examining the physical attributes of the early manuscripts and how they were received at the time of their copying.
Ahern, John. “Binding the Book: Hermeneutics and Manuscript Production in Paradiso
Reprinted from PMLA, 97 (1982), 800-809.
Ahern, John. “The New Life of the Book: The Implied Reader of the Vita nuova.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 157-172.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 110 (1992), 1-16.
Alfie, Fabian. “For Want of a Nail: The Guerri-Lanza-Cursietti Argument regarding the Tenzone.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 247-265.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 116 (1998), 141-159.
Armour, Peter. “The Theme of Exodus in the First Two Cantos of the Purgatorio.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 223-263.
Reprinted from Dante Soundings, edited by David Nolan (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1981), pp. 59-99.
Ascoli, Albert Russell. “Dante after Dante.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 349-68.
Warns of the perils of reading Dante’s works theoretically rather than historically, arguing that a simply theoretical reading of the Commedia will distort an understanding of the text’s narrative.
Ascoli, Albert Russell. “‘Neminem ante nos’: Historicity and Authority in the De vulgari eloquentia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 46-91.
Reprinted from Annali d’Italianistica, 8 (1990), 186-211.
Auerbach, Erich. “Farinata and Cavalcante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 33-62.
Reprinted from Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, translated by W. Trask (New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1957 [1946]), pp. 151-177.
Auerbach, Erich. “Figura.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 1-66.
Reprinted from Scenes from the Drama of European Literature: Six Essays (New York: Meridian Books, 1959), pp. 11-76.
Balfour, Mark. “‘Orribil furon li peccati miei’: Manfred’s Wounds in Purgatorio III.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 264-277.
Reprinted from Italian Studies, 48 (1993), 4-17.
Baranski, Zygmunt G. “Scatology and Obscenity in Dante.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 259-73.
Undertakes to recontextualize a sometimes misunderstood aspect of Dante’s work. The author specifically calls into question established readings of Inferno 18, arguing that Dante is much more willing to employ scatological references than sexual ones, an attitude based on the apparently greater tolerance for scatology than sexual reference in the text of the Bible.
Baranski, Zygmunt G. “Dante’s Biblical Linguistics.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 261-299. Reprinted from Lectura Dantis, 5 (1989), 105-143.
Baranski, Zygmunt. “Comedía. Notes on Dante, the Epistle to Cangrande, and Medieval Comedy.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 194-223.
Reprinted from Lectura Dantis, 8 (1991), 26-55.
Bara?ski, Zygmunt. “The ‘New Life’ of ‘Comedy’: The Commedia and the Vita Nuova.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 279-307.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 113 (1995), 1-29.
Barolini, Teodolinda. “Dante and the Lyric Past.” In Dante Alighieri (q.v.), 117-149.
Reprinted from The Cambridge Companion to Dante, edited by Rachel Jacoff (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Barolini, Teodolinda. “Beyond (Courtly) Dualism: Thinking about Gender in Dante’s Lyrics.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 65-89.
Traces the changes of Dante’s persona from courtly to public poet through an examination of his treatment of women. Progresses far beyond the presentation of women in traditional courtly poetry as inactive individuals, Dante develops an image of woman who is more integrated with the world and its culture.
Barolini, Teodolinda. “Autocitation and Autobiography.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 217-254.
Reprinted from Dante’s Poets: Textuality and Truth in the “Comedy” (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), pp. 3-39.
Barolini, Teodolinda. “Dante and Francesca da Rimini: Realpolitik, Romance, Gender.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 89-116.
Reprinted from Speculum, 75 (2000), 1-28.
Barolini, Teodolinda. “Detheologizing Dante: Realism, Reception, and the Resources of Narrative.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 79-102.
Reprinted from T. Barolini, The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. 3-20.
Barolini, Teodolinda. “Statius: ‘Per te poeta fui.’” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 278-291.
Reprinted from Dante’s Poets: Textuality and Truth in the “Comedy” (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), pp. 256-269.
Barolini, Teodolinda. “Vergil: ‘Poeta fui.’” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 247-302.
Reprinted from Dante’s Poets: Textuality and Truth in the “Comedy” (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), pp. 201- 256.
Bartoli, Lorenzo. “Bruni e Boccaccio biografi di Dante: appunti filologici.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America: posted November 14, 2003, at www.dantesociety.org > Publications > Electronic Journal (EBDSA).
Beaudin, Elizabeth A.S. “Dante: Imagining Salvation.” In Dante Alighieri (q.v.), 49-72.
Argues that a considerable tension between realism and allegory is present in the Commedia, a phenomenon that further contributes to the work’s power to draw the reader eye’s “upward.”
Becker, Marvin. “Dante and His Literary Contemporaries as Political Men.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 227-242.
Reprinted from Speculum, 41 (1966), 665-680.
Benfell, V. Stanley. “Prophetic Madness: The Bible in Inferno XIX,” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 323-341.
Reprinted from Modern Language Notes, 110 (1995), 145-63.
Bisson, Lillian M. “Brunetto Latini as a Failed Mentor.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 133-147.
Reprinted from Medievalia et Humanistica, 18 (1992), 1-15.
Boitani, Piero. “Moby-Dante?” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 435-50.
Outlines a relationship, in point of a shared concept of heroism, between Ahab, in Melville’s Moby Dick, and Dante’s Ulysses.
Boli, Todd. “Boccaccio’s Trattatello in laude di Dante, Or Dante Resartus.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 1-24.
Reprinted from Renaissance Quarterly, 41, 3 (1988), 389-412.
Bondanella, Peter E. “Arnaut Daniel and Dante’s Rime Petrose: A Re-Examination.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 330-348.
Reprinted from Studies in Philology, 68 (1971), 416-434.
Borges, Jorge Luis. “Nine Dantesque Essays 1945-
Reprinted from Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Eliot Weinberger (New York: Penguin Putnam, 1999).
Botterill, Steven. “Mysticism and Meaning in Dante’s Paradiso.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 143-51.
Examines Dante’s frequent exclusion from the traditional canon of mystical authors. The enduring meaning of Paradiso, if not its every word, should be considered mystical in nature.
Botterill, Steven. “Ideals of the Institutional Church in Dante and Bernard of Clairvaux.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 405-421.
Reprinted from Italica, 78: 3 (2001), 297-313.
Brand, C. P. “Dante and the Middle Ages in Neo-Classical and Romantic Criticism.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 121-130.
Reprinted from Modern Language Review, 81 (1986), 327-336.
Brownlee, Kevin. “Literary Genealogy and the Problem of the Father: Christine de Pizan and Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 25-47.
Reprinted from Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 23: 3 (1993), 365-387.
Brownlee, Kevin. “The Practice of Cultural Authority: Italian Responses to French Cultural Dominance in Il Tesoretto, Il Fiore, and the Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 412-423.
Reprinted from Forum for Modern Language Studies, 33: 3 (1997), 258-69.
Bryden, Mary. “No Stars without Stripes: Beckett and Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 401-416.
Reprinted from Romanic Review, 87: 4 (1996), 541?556.
Cachey, Theodore. “Between Hermeneutics and Poetics: Translation of the Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 410-430.
Reprinted from Annali D’Italianistica, 8 (1990), 144-164.
Cambon, Glauco. “Dante and the Drama of Language.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 23-46.
Reprinted from The World of Dante: Six Studies in Language and Thought, edited by S. Bernard Chandler and J. A. Molinaro (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1966), pp. 3-24.
Cambon, Glauco. “Dante’s Presence in American Literature.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 167-190.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 84 (1966), 27-50.
Cambon, Glauco. “Lectura Dantis: Inferno X.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 64-78.
Reprinted from Dante’s Divine Comedy: Introductory Readings. I: Inferno. Lectura Dantis, Special Issue: Lectura Dantis Virginiana, vol. I, 6 Supplement (1990), 124-138.
Cambon, Glauco. “Wallace Stevens’s Dialogue with Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 254-278.
Reprinted from Dante Among the Moderns, edited by Stuart Y. McDougal (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1985), pp. 102-127.
Carugati, Giuliana. “Quando amor fa sentir de la sua pace.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 211-27.
Contends that Dante uses erotic and romantic language in Neoplatonic ways in order to present ideas that have long since been forgotten by the Church, concluding that when Dante thinks of God, he thinks of a woman.
Cassell, Anthony K. “Dante’s Farinata and the Image of the Arca.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 197-232.
Reprinted from Yale Italian Studies, 1 (1977), 335?370.
Cassell, Anthony, K., “The Tomb, the Tower and the Pit: Dante’s Satan.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 201-221.
Reprinted from Italica, 56 (1979), 331-351.
Cestaro, Gary P. “Queering Nature, Queering Gender: Dante and Sodomy.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 90-103.
Departing from a consideration of the scholarly treatment of sodomy in Inferno 15-16, Cestaro argues for a more theoretically-informed understanding of the subject within the modern context.
Chiarenza, Marguerite Mills. “Boethian Themes in Dante’s Reading of Virgil.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 79-89.
Reprinted from Stanford Italian Review, 3: 1 (1983), 25?35.
Cioffi, Caron Ann. “‘Il cantor de’ bucolici carmi’: The Influence of Virgilian Pastoral and Dante’s Earthly Paradise.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 387-413.
Reprinted from Lectura Dantis Newberryana, 1 (1988), 93-119.
Cioffi, Caron. “St. Augustine Revisited: On Conversion in the Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 372-384.
Reprinted from Lectura Dantis, 5 (1989), 68-80.
Cogan, Marc. “Delight, Punishment, and the Justice of God in the Divina Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 117-142.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 111 (1993), 27-52.
Colish, Marcia L. “Medieval Allegory: A Historiographical Consideration.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 135-149.
Reprinted from Clio, 4, 3 (1975), 341-355.
Contini, Gianfranco. “Introduction to Dante’s Rime.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 318-328.
Reprinted from Dante: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by John Freccero (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1965), pp. 28-38.
Contini, Gianfranco. “Philology and Dante Exegesis.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 1-32.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 87 (1969), 1-32.
Cooksey, Thomas L. “The Central Man of the World: The Victorian Myth of Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 151-165.
Reprinted from Studies in Medievalism, 4 (1992), 187-201.
Cooper, Richard. “The French Dimension in Dante’s Politics.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 168-194.
Reprinted from Dante and Governance, edited by John Woodhouse (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), pp. 58-84.
Cornish, Alison. “Vulgarizing Science: Vernacular Translation of Natural Philosophy.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 169-82.
Analyzes Dante’s attempt to make the practice of natural science more readily accessible to the public by employing the vernacular to convey meteorological descriptions.
Cornish, Alison. “Beatrice and the Astronomical Heavens.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 308-317.
Reprinted from Lectura Dantis, 18-19 (1996), 20-29.
Cornish, Alison. “Planets and Angels in Paradiso XXIX: The First Moment.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 353-380.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 108 (1990), 1-28.
Cuzzilla, Tony. ”Par. 32.139: ‘Ma perché ’l tempo fugge che t’assonna.’” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America: posted March 15, 2003, at www.dantesociety.org > Publications > Electronic Journal (EBDSA).
Davis, Charles T. “Dante’s Vision of History.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 1-18.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 93 (1975), 143-160.
Davis, Charles T. “Remigio de’ Girolami and Dante: A Comparison of Their Conceptions of Peace.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 243-274.
Reprinted from Studi Danteschi, 36 (1959), 105-136.
Davis, Charles. “Dante and Ecclesiastical Property.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 294-307.
Reprinted from Law in Mediaeval Life and Thought, edited by Edward B. King and Susan J. Ridyard (Sewanee, Tennessee: The Press of the University of the South, 1990), pp. 244-257.
Davis, Charles. “Rome and Babylon in Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 69-90.
Reprinted from Rome in the Renaissance: The City and the Myth, edited by P. A. Ramsey. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies. Binghamton, 1982. Pp. 19-40.
Di Cesare, Mario A. “Interrupted Symmetries: Terza Rima, Heroic Verse, First Lines, and the Styles of Epic.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 1-33.
Reprinted from Mediaevalia, 12 (1989 for 1986), 271-303.
Donno, Daniel J. “Dante’s Argenti: Episode and Function.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 117-131.
Reprinted from Speculum, 40 (1965), 611-625.
Dronke, Peter. “Symbolism and Structure in Paradiso
Reprinted from Romance Philology, 43 (1989), 29-48.
Durling, Robert M. “The Body and the Flesh in the Purgatorio.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 183-91.
Discusses the important of the distinction between body and flesh with respect to Dante’s poetics in the Purgatorio, focusing primarily on the terrace of pride. The distinction is vital to an understanding of the representation of souls in Purgatorio as “virtual” bodies.
Durling, Robert M. “‘Io son venuto’: Seneca, Plato, and the Microcosm.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 349-383.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 93 (1975), 95-129.
Ellis, Stephen Paul. “Yeats and Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 313-329.
Reprinted from Comparative Literature, 33, 1 (1981), 1-17.
Ellis, Steve. “Chaucer, Dante, and Damnation.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 60-72.
Reprinted from Chaucer Review, 22 (1988), 282-294.
Emmerson, Richard K., and Ronald B. Herzman. “The Commedia: Apocalypse, Church, and Dante’s Conversion.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 350-401.
Reprinted from The Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992), pp. 104-144, 203-213.
Ferrante, Joan M. “Dante and Politics.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 19-32.
Reprinted from Dante: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Amilcare A. Iannucci (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), pp. 181-194.
Ferrante, Joan M. “Florence and Rome, The Two Cities of Man in The Divine Comedy.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 275-293.
Reprinted from The Early Renaissance, edited by Aldo S. Bernardo. Acta [Proceedings of SUNY Regional Conferences in Medieval Studies], Vol. 5 (Binghamton, New York: The Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1978), pp. 1-19.
Ferrante, Joan M. “History is Myth, Myth is History.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 33-49.
Reprinted from Dante. Mito e poesia. Atti del secondo Seminario dantesco internazionale, edited by Michelangelo Picone and Tatiana Crivelli (Florence: Franco Cesati Editore, 1999), pp. 317-333.
Ferrante, Joan M. “The Bible as Thesaurus for Secular Literature.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 233-259.
Reprinted from The Bible in the Middle Ages: Its Influence on Literature and Art, edited by Bernard S. Levy (Binghamton, New York: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992), pp. 23-49.
Ferrante, Joan. “Dante’s Beatrice, Priest of an Androgynous God.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 187-216.
Reprinted from CEMERS Occasional Publications Series, 2 (Binghamton, New York: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992), pp. 1-32.
Fosca, Nicola. “Inferno XIII.99: ". . . come gran di spelta.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America: posted September 27, 2003, at www.dantesociety.org > Publications > Electronic Journal (EBDSA).
Adverting to previous studies by Hollander and Cassell that link Pier della Vigna to the figure of Judas, the author argues that the image of the “gran di spelta” expresses figurally the degeneration of the Eucharistic “pane,” just as the suicide represents “esattamente l’opposto del sacrificio di Cristo.”
Foster, Kenelm, O.P. “The Celebration of Order, Paradiso X.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 323-338.
Reprinted from The Two Dantes and Other Studies (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 120-136.
Foster, Kenelm. “Religion and Philosophy in Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 113-144.
Reprinted from The Mind of Dante, edited by Uberto Limentani. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965), pp. 47-78.
Freccero, John. “Dante’s Pilgrim in a Gyre.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 1250-263.
Reprinted from PMLA, 76 (1961), 168-181.
Freccero, John. “Dante’s Prologue Scene.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 63-87.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 84 (1966), 1-25.
Freccero, John. “Medusa: The Letter and the Spirit.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 355-371.
Reprinted from Dante: The Poetics of Conversion, edited by Rachel Jacoff (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986), pp. 119-135.
Fussell, Edwin. “Dante and Pound’s Cantos.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 281-293.
Reprinted from Journal of Modern Literature, 1 (1970), 75-87.
Gilson, Etienne. “Dante’s Notion of a Shade: Purgatorio XXV.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 340-358.
Reprinted from Mediaeval Studies, 29 (1967), 124-142.
Gilson, Simon A. “Dante and the Science of ‘Perspective.’” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 305-339.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 115 (1997), 185-219.
Gorni, Guglielmo. “Material Philology, Conjectural Philology, Philology without Adjectives.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 44-55.
Argues that philology constitutes an important science that should not be entrusted to “technicians,” but rather to those with an open mind unconstrained by any single critical approach.
Gragnolati, Manuele. “From Plurality to (Near) Unicity of Forms: Embryology in Purgatorio
Reassessing the longstanding question about the nature of the human soul after the death of the body, Gragnolati argues that Dante’s conception is not sufficiently resolved to admit of a definitive answer because he drew on multiple sources, including those of Aquinas and Bonaventure.
Grayson, Cecil. “Dante and the Renaissance.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 73-91.
Reprinted from Italian Studies Presented to E.R. Vincent, edited by C.P. Brand et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962), pp. 57-75.
Grayson, Cecil. “Dante’s Theory and Practice of Poetry.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 2-21.
Reprinted from The World of Dante: Essays on Dante and his Times, edited by Cecil Grayson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), pp. 146-165.
Greene, Thomas M. “Dramas of Selfhood in the Comedy.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 1-34.
Reprinted from From Time to Eternity, edited by Thomas G. Bergin (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967), pp. 103-136.
Harrison, Robert Pogue. “Comedy and Modernity: Dante’s Hell.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 221-239.
Reprinted from MLN, 102: 5 (1987), 1043-1061.
Harrison, Robert Pogue. “Vision and Revision: The Provisionary Essence of the Vita Nuova.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 174-185.
Reprinted from Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 32, 1 (1990), 6-17.
Hawkins, Peter S., and Rachel Jacoff. “Still Here: Dante after Modernism.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 451-64.
The authors trace the influence of Dante on twentieth-century poets, focusing on the remarks of T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Charles Wright, and Gjertrud Schnackenberg, among others.
Hawkins, Peter. “Divide and Conquer: Augustine in the Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 343-354.
Reprinted from PMLA, 106, 3 (1991), 471-482.
Herzman, Ronald. “From Francis to Solomon: Eschatology in the Sun.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 320-33.
Argues that Dante depicts Francis of Assisi’s life in the Commedia because the saint served as a model for Dante’s himself, as an example of humility. In this light he conducts a reading of the saint’s pseudo-presence in the Heaven of the Sun (Par. 10) together with that of Solomon’s real presence.
Herzman, Ronald B. “Cannibalism and Communion in Inferno XXXIII.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 175-200.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 98 (1980), 53-78.
Herzman, Ronald B. “Dante and the Apocalypse.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 402-417.
Reprinted from The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, edited by Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn (Ithaca, New York, and London: Cornell University Press, 1992), pp. 398-413.
Herzman, Ronald. “Dante and Francis.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 386-404.
Reprinted from Franciscan Studies, 42: 20 (1982), 96-114.
Hipolito, T.A. “The Ancient and the Modern in Dante’s Vita Nuova.” Renascence, 55:2 (2003), 111-32.
Although as a “quintessentially medieval work” the Vita Nuova can appear somewhat unsettling to a modern temperament for its comparison of Beatrice with Christ, Dante’s concept of love nevertheless reflects the general elevation of religious love over secular love in the Middle Ages. At the same time, however, the author claims that Dante’s work is intensely modern in the way in which Dante represents self-consciousness and expounds a theory of literature.
Hollander, Robert and Heather Russo. “Purgatorio 33.43: Dante's 515 and Virgil's
Hollander, Robert. “Tragedy in Dante’s Comedy.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 34-54.
Reprinted from Sewanee Review, 91: 2 (1983), 240-260.
Hollander, Robert and Albert L. Rossi. “Dante’s Republican Treasury.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 363-386.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 104 (1986), 59-82.
Hollander, Robert. “Baranski’s Article (1991).” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 225-245.
Reprinted from Dante’s Epistle to Cangrande (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1993), pp. 75-95.
Hollander, Robert. “Dante’s Use of Aeneid I in Inferno I and II.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 56-77.
Reprinted from Comparative Literature, 20 (1968), 142-156.
Iannucci, Amilcare A. “Already and Not Yet: Dante’s Existential Eschatology.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 334-48.
Contends that the magnitude of the calamities atop the mountain of Purgatory serialized in Purgatorio 28-33 suggests Dante must have believed that the end of time was near.
Iannucci, Amilcare, “Beatrice in Limbo: a Metaphoric Harrowing of Hell.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 255-277.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 97 (1979), 23-45.
Jacoff, Rachel. “Our Bodies, Our Selves”: The Body in the Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 359-377.
Reprinted from Sparks and Seeds: Medieval Literature and its Afterlife. Essays in Honor of John Freccero, edited by Dana E. Stewart and Alison Cornish. Binghamton Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000), pp. 119-137.
Kaske, Robert E. “Dante’s Purgatorio XXXII and XXXIII: A Survey of Christian History.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 309-330.
Reprinted from University of Toronto Quarterly, 43 (1974), 193-214.
Kay, Richard. “Unwintering January (Dante, Paradiso 27.142-143).” MLN, 118 (2003), 237-44.
Undertakes to debunk the commonly held interpretation of the “unwintering” of January mentioned in Paradiso by arguing that the apparently obscure aspect of the prophecy in fact relates to particular aspects of the Julian calendar and other astrological and astronomical signs. According to Kay’s hypothesis, Dante understands that January would be a spring month based on the precession of the equinoxes, not on the tropical and solar year as described in the Julian calendar.
Kay, Richard. “Dante’s Empyrean and the Eye of God.” Speculum, 78 (2003), 37-65.
Contends that the Empyrean is in fact an image of God’s Eye. To establish this comparison Dante needed to subscribe to and make use of the extramission theory of vision that bases sight on rays coming out of rather than into the eye, because God’s Eye was not otherwise available to him as an iconic image.
Kirkham, Victoria. “A Canon of Women in Dante’s Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 36-61.
Reprinted from Annali d’Italianistica, 7 (1989), 16-41.
Kleinhenz, Christopher. “On Dante and the Visual Arts.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 274-92.
Relates Dante’s desire for narrative to be understood both horizontally and vertically to his study of visual representations, specifically those of mosaics of the Florentine Baptistery.
Kleinhenz, Christopher. “Dante’s Towering Giants: Inferno XXXI.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 157-173.
Reprinted from Romance Philology, 27 (1974), 269-285.
Kleinhenz, Christopher. “The Poetics of Citation: Dante’s Divina Commedia and the Bible.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 301-321.
Reprinted from Italiana 1988 (1990), pp. 1-21.
Lansing, Richard. “Dante’s Concept of Violence and the Chain of Being.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 143-163.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 99 (1981), 67-88.
Lansing, Richard. “Dante’s Intended Audience in the Convivio.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 27-34.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 110 (1992), 17-24.
Lansing, Richard. “Narrative Design in Dante’s Earthly Paradise.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 293-305.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 112 (1994), 101-113.
Lansing, Richard. “Piccarda and the Poetics of Paradox: A Reading of Paradiso III.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 307-322.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 105 (1987), 63?77.
Leo, Ulrich. “The Unfinished Convivio and Dante’s Rereading of the Aeneid.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 189-212.
Reprinted from Medieval Studies, 13 (1951), 44-64.
Levenstein, Jessica. “The Re-Formation of Marsyas in Paradiso
Concentrates on a celebrated aspect of Ovid’s influence on Dante’s work, the episode of Marsyas in the sixth book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, finding that Dante presents a re-imagining of Ovid’s scene in the first canto of Paradiso.
Macdonald, Ronald. “Dante: Language and History.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 127-188.
Reprinted from Places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987), pp. 57-87.
Martinez, Ronald L. “Dante’s Jeremiads: The Fall of Jerusalem and the Burden of the New Pharisees, the Capetians, and Florence.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 301-19.
Compares Florence with Jerusalem as cities destined for a kind of divine destruction, providing an analysis of a number of cantos that reinforce this idea, in particular Inferno 19 and 23, and Purgatorio 20 and 23.
Martinez, Ronald. “Mourning Beatrice: The Rhetoric of Threnody in the Vita Nuova.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 127-155.
Reprinted from Modern Language Notes, 113: 1 (1998), 1-29.
Mazzeo, J. A. “Dante’s Conception of Poetic Expression.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 117-134.
Reprinted from Romanic Review, 47 (1956), 241-258.
Mazzeo, J. A. “Light Metaphysics, Dante’s Convivio and the Letter to Can Grande della Scala.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 265-303.
Reprinted from Traditio, 14 (1958), 191-229.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “The Heaven of the Sun: Dante between Aquinas and Bonaventure.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 152-68.
Addresses Dante’s focus on doctrinal controversies in the Sphere of the Sun, tracing Dante’s treatment of philosophical and theological concepts in this area to Saints Bonaventure and Aquinas, the two figures to whom he most substantially owes his understanding of Christian spirituality and doctrine.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “Dante’s Literary Typology.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 177-195.
Reprinted from MLN, 87: 1 (1972), 1-19.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “Opus restaurationis.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 92-143.
Reprinted from Dante, Poet of the Desert: History and Allegory in the “Divine Comedy” (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), pp. 14-65.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “Poetics of History: Inferno XXVI.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 149-156.
Reprinted from Diacritics, 2 (1975), 37-44.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “The Language of Poetry in the Vita Nuova.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 93-104.
Reprinted from Rivista di studi italiani, 1: 1 (1983), 3-14.
McDougal, Stuart Y. “T. S. Eliot’s Metaphysical Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 375-399.
Reprinted from Dante among the Moderns, edited by Stuart Y. McDougal (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1985), pp. 57-81.
Merrill, James. “Divine Poem.” In Dante Alighieri (q.v.), 73-80.
Reprinted from The Poets’ Dante, edited by Peter S. Hawkins and Rachel Jacoff (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001).
Metcalf, Allan A. “Dante and E. E. Cummings.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 240-252.
Reprinted from Comparative Literature Studies, 7 (1970), 374-386.
Minio-Paluello, Lorenzo. 1980. “Dante’s Reading of Aristotle.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 35-54.
Reprinted from The World of Dante: Essays on Dante and his Times, edited by Cecil Grayson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), pp. 61-80.
Minnis, A. J. “The Transformation of Critical Tradition: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 345-367.
Reprinted from Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism, c. 1100-c. 1375: The Commentary Tradition, edited by A. J. Minnis and A. B. Scott, with the assistance of David Wallace (New York and Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), pp. 373-387.
Moevs, Christian. “Is Dante Telling the Truth?” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 103-111.
Reprinted from Lectura Dantis, 18-19 (Spring-Fall, 1996), 3-11.
Moleta, Vincent. “The Vita Nuova as a Lyric Narrative.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 105-127.
Reprinted from Forum Italicum, 12 (1978), 369-390.
Montano, Rocco. “Dante and Virgil.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 214-225.
Reprinted from Yale Review, 60 (1971), 550-561.
Najemy, John. “Dante and Florence.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 206-225.
Reprinted from The Cambridge Companion to Dante, edited by Rachel Jacoff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 80-99.
Newman, Francis X. “St. Augustine’s Three Visions and the Structure of the Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 146-168.
Reprinted from MLN, 72: 1 (1967), 56-78.
Noakes, Susan. “Virility, Nobility, and Banking: The Crossing of Discourses in the Tenzone with Forese.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 241-58.
Assesses the newly discovered information regarding the social and biographical background to Dante’s exchange of sonnets with his friend Forese Donati, arguing that the sonnets need to be re-contextualized.
Ordiway, Frank B. “In the Earth’s Shadow: The Theological Virtues Marred.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 233-248.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 100 (1982), 77-92.
Parker, Deborah. “Bernardino Daniello and the Commentary Tradition.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 49-59.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 106 (1988), 111-121.
Parker, Deborah. “The Medieval Roots of Commentary in the Renaissance.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 369-393.
Reprinted from Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1993), pp. 25-49.
Parker, Patricia. “Dante and the Dramatic Monologue.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 131-149. Reprinted from Stanford Literature Review, 2: 2 (1985), 165-183.
Pequigney, Joseph and Hubert Dreyfus. “Landscape and Guide: Dante’s Modifying of Meaning in the Inferno.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 83-115.
Reprinted from Italian Quarterly, 5: 20–6: 21 (1961–1962), 51-83.
Pertile, Lino. “Does the Stilnovo Go to Heaven?” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 104-14.
Answering his own question, the author argues that what is punished in Hell and purged in Purgatory bears no resemblance to the love experienced in Heaven, which extends beyond time and space.
Pertile, Lino. “Dante Looks Forward and Back: Political Allegory in the Epistles.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 51-67.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 115 (1997), 1-17.
Pertile, Lino. “Dante’s Comedy beyond the Stilnovo.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 287-317.
Reprinted from Lectura Dantis, 13 (1993), 47-77.
Peters, Edward M. “The Failure of Church and Empire: Paradiso
Reprinted from Mediaeval Studies, 34 (1972), 326-335.
Picone, Michelangelo. “Ovid and the Exul Inmeritus.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 389-407.
Traces the influence of Ovid on Dante’s texts, focusing in particular on the topic of exile in the later works of Ovid.
Picone, Michelangelo. “Dante and the Classics.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 321-343.
Reprinted from Dante: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Amilcare A. Iannucci (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), pp. 51-73.
Pike, David. “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Dante’s descensus ad superos.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 90-125.
Reprinted from Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997) pp. 98-133.
Psaki, F. Regina. “Love for Beatrice: Transcending Contradiction in the Paradiso.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 115-30.
Describes Dante’s “reconciliation of human sexual love and divine love” as a program organizing yet other kinds of reconciliations that take place in Paradiso, and then assesses the tendency shared by both medieval and modern cultures to “stage important debates in imagistic rather than analytical language.”
Quint, David. “Epic Tradition and Inferno IX.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 71-78.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 93 (1973), 201-207.
Raffa, Guy P. “Dante’s Beloved Yet Damned Virgil.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 226-246.
Reprinted from Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Inferno. The Indiana Critical Edition, edited by Mark Musa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), pp. 266-285.
Reeves, Marjorie. “Dante and the Prophetic View of History.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 332-348.
Reprinted from The World of Dante: Essays on Dante and his Times, edited by Cecil Grayson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), pp. 44-60.
Reynolds, Mary T. “Joyce’s Planetary Music: His Debt to Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 192-219.
Reprinted from Sewanee Review, 76 (1968), 450-477.
Richardson, Brian. “Editing Dante’s Commedia, 1472-
Reprinted from Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies, edited by Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), pp. 237-262.
Robey, David. “Dante and Modern American Criticism: Post-structuralism.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 394-409.
Reprinted from Annali d’Italianistica, 8 (1990), 116-131.
Sanna, Ellyn. “Biography of Dante Alighieri.” In Dante Alighieri (q.v.), 13-48.
Provides a biographical description of Dante’s life and times.
Schnapp, Jeffrey T. “‘Sì pïa l’ombra d’Anchise si porse’: Paradiso 15.25.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 339-352.
Reprinted from The Poetry of Allusion: Virgil and Ovid in Dante’s “Commedia,” edited by Rachel Jacoff and Jeffrey T. Schnapp (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1991), pp. 145?156, 279?280.
Scott, John A. “Paradiso 22.151: ‘L’aiuola che ci fa tanto feroci’: Philology and Hermeneutics.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America: posted April 29, 2003, at www.dantesociety.org > Publications > Electronic Journal (EBDSA).
Scott, John A. “Dante and Treachery.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 165-180.
Reprinted from Dante Colloquia in Australia (1982-1999), edited by Margaret Baker and Diana Glenn (Adelaide: Australian Humanities Press, 2000), pp. 27-42.
Scott, John A. “Dante’s Allegory of the Theologians.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 151-164.
Reprinted from The Shared Horizon, edited by Tom O’Neill (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1990), pp. 27-40.
Scott, John. “Dante and Philosophy.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 266-285.
Reprinted from Annali d’Italianistica, 8 (1990), 258-277.
Scott, John. “The Unfinished Convivio as a Pathway to the Comedy.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 1-26.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 113 (1995), 31-56.
Shapiro, Marianne. “On the Role of Rhetoric in the Convivio.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 56-82.
Reprinted from Romance Philology, 40, 1 (1986), 38-64.
Sicari, Stephen. “Reading Pound’s Politics”: Ulysses as Fascist Hero.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 351-374.
Reprinted from Paideuma, 17: 2-3 (1988), 145-168.
Signorelli-Pappas, Rita. “Imagining the Author’s Gaze: Ancient and Modern Exile Literature in Translation.” Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing, 46: 4 (2003), 753.
Provides an appraisal of Jean and Robert Hollander’s recent translation of the Purgatorio.
Singleton, C. S. “Dante’s Allegory.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 108-116.
Reprinted from Speculum, 25: 1 (1950), 78-86.
Singleton, C. S. “In Exitu Israel de Aegypto.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 67-90.
Reprinted from 78th Annual Report of the Dante Society, 78 (1960), 1-24.
Singleton, C. S.. “Allegory.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 91-107.
Reprinted from Dante Studies 1. Commedia: Elements of Structure (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965), pp. 1-17.
Spears, Monroe K. “The Divine Comedy of W.H. Auden.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 331-350.
Reprinted from Sewanee Review, 90, 1 (1982), 53-72.
Stark, John. “The Old Man of Crete.” Forum Italicum, 37 (2003), 5-20.
Critiques the established readings of the Old Man of Crete (Inferno 14) for excessive reliance on sources external to Dante’s own work, arguing in particular the importance the four rivers of Hell play in coordinating its meaning.
Storey, H. Wayne. “Early Editorial Forms of Dante’s Lyrics.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 16-43.
Examines how the work of professional scribes and manuscript copyists resulted in modifications of the original text for an number of different reasons, including the need to accommodate the desires or needs of a commissioning patron, a specific readership audience, or even the copyist himself.
Thompson, Andrew. “Dante, the Risorgimento and the British: The Italian Background.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 92-120.
Reprinted from George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural, and Political Influences from Dante to the “Risorgimento” (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), pp. 6-29.
Thompson, David. “Dante’s Virtuous Romans.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 345-362.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 96 (1978), 145-162.
Thompson, David. “Figure and Allegory in the Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 165-175.
Reprinted from Dante Studies, 90 (1972), 1-11.
Took, John. “Dante and the Confessions of Augustine.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 170-192.
Reprinted from Annali D’Italianistica, 8 (1990), 360-383.
Took, John. “Towards an Interpretation of the Fiore.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 384-411.
Reprinted from Speculum, 54 (1979), 500-527.
Triolo, Alfred A. “‘Matta Bestialità’ in Dante’s Inferno: Theory and Image.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 181-226.
Reprinted from Traditio, 24 (1968), 247-292.
Wallace, David. “Dante in England.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 422-34.
Describes the positive reception that Dante’s work has received in England, stemming in part from perceptions of his religious affiliation during the Reformation.
Wenzel, Siegfried. “Dante’s Rationale for the Seven Deadly Sins (Purgatorio, XVII).” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 227-231.
Reprinted from Modern Language Review, 60 (1965), 529-533.
Wetherbee, Winthrop. “‘Poeta che mi guidi’: Dante, Lucan, and Virgil.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 303-320.
Reprinted from Canons, edited by Robert von Hallberg (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1984), pp. 131-148.
Wilhelm, James J. “Two Heavens of Light and Love: Paradise to Dante and to Pound.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 295-311.
Reprinted from Paideuma, 2 (1973), 175-191.
Williamson, Edward. “De beatitudine huius vite.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 145-166.
Reprinted from 76th Annual Report of the Dante Society, 76 (1958), 1-22.
TRANSLATIONS
Alighieri, Dante. Purgatory. Translated by Anthony M. Esolen. New York: The Modern Library, 2003. 544 p.
Alighieri, Dante. Purgatorio. Translated by Jean Hollander and Robert Hollander. New York: Doubleday, 2003. 768 p.
Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso. Translated by John Ciardi. Reprinted edition. New York: The New American Library, 2003. xxv, 895 p.
REVIEWS
Alighieri, Dante. Inferno. Translated by Jean Hollander and Robert Hollander. New York: Doubleday, 2000. Reviewed by:
Theodore J. Cachey, Jr., Speculum, 78 (2003), 155-58.
Baranski, Zygmunt G. “Chiosar con altro testo”: leggere Dante nel Trecento. Fiesole: Cadmo, 2001. Reviewed by:
Olivia Holmes, Rivista di Studi Italiani, 20 (2002), 285-94
Baranski , Zygmunt G. Dante e i segni: saggi per una storia intellettuale di Dante Alighieri. Naples: Liguori Press, 2000. Reviewed by:
Olivia Holmes, Rivista di Studi Italiani, 20 (2002), 285-94
Boyde, Patrick. Human Vices and Human Worth in Dante’s “Comedy.” Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Reviewed by:
Steven Botterill, Speculum, 78 (2003), 147-49.
Olivia Holmes, Rivista di Studi Italiani, 20 (2002 [2003]), 285-94
Gorni, Guglielmo. Dante prima della “Commedia.” Fiesole: Cadmo, 2001. Reviewed by:
Fabian Alfie, Speculum 78 (2003), 177-79.
Olivia Holmes, Rivista di Studi Italiani, 20 (2002), 285-94.
Howard, Lloyd. Formulas of Repetition in Dante’s “Commedia”: Signposted Journeys across Textual Space. Montreal and Kingston, Ontario, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001. Reviewed by:
John Kerr, Speculum, 78 (2003), 523-25.
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