Interpreting Dante

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In Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary, Paola Nasti and Claudia Rossignoli gather essays by prominent scholars of the Dante commentary tradition to discuss the significance of this tradition for the study of the Comedy, its broad impact on the history of ideas, and its contribution to the development of literary criticism.

Interest in the Dante commentary tradition has grown considerably in recent years, but projects on this subject tend to focus on philological reconstructions. The contributors shift attention to the interpretation of texts, authors, and reading communities by examining how Dante commentators developed interpretative paradigms that contributed to the advancement of literary criticism and the creation of the Western literary canon. Dante commentaries illustrate the evolution of notions of “literariness” and literature, genre and style, intertextuality and influence, literary histories, traditions and canons, authorship and readerships, paratexts and textual materiality. The volume includes methodological essays exploring theoretical aspects of the tradition, such as the creation of a taxonomy for categorizing typologies of commentaries; the relationship between commentators and their contemporary readers; the interplay between written and visual commentaries; and the impact of patronage on the forms of exegesis. Other essays, including two in Italian, examine case studies of individual commentaries, giving an account of the modus operandi of Dante’s exegetes by relating their approaches to the cultural, ideological, and political agendas of the community of readers and scholars to which the commentators belonged.

Sujets

• Medieval
• Edad Media
• Italian literature
• Divine Comedy
• Middle Ages
• Italian
• Poetry
• European
• The Divine Comedy
• Dante Alighieri

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 30 décembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268170523
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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VO LU M E 1 3 Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary edited by Paola Nasti and • Claudia Rossignoli

VO LU M E 1 2 Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy Dennis Looney •

VO LU M E 1 1 Dante’s Commedia: Theology as Poetry edited by Vittorio Montemaggi • and Matthew Treherne

VO LU M E 1 0 Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition edited by Zygmunt G. Baran´ski • and Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.

VO LU M E 9 The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets Winthrop Wetherbee •

VO LU M E 8 Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval Italy Justin Steinberg •

VO LU M E 7 Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture Manuele Gragnolati •

VO LU M E 6 Understanding Dante John A. Scott •

VO LU M E 5 Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body Gary P. Cestaro •

VO LU M E 4 The Fiore and the Detto d’Amore: A Late 13th-Century Italian Translation of the Roman de la Rose, attributable to Dante Translated, with introduction and • notes, by Santa Casciani and Christopher Kleinhenz

VO LU M E 3 The Design in the Wax: The Structure of the Divine Comedy and Its Meaning Marc Cogan •

VO LU M E 2 The Fiore in Context: Dante, France, Tuscany edited by Zygmunt G. Baran´ski • and Patrick Boyde

VO LU M E 1 Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies edited by Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. •

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I N T E R P R E T I N G D A N T E

Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary

Edited by

Paola Nasti and Claudia Rossignoli

U N I V E R S I T Y O F N O T R E D A M E P R E S S

N O T R E D A M E , I N D I A N A

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Interpreting Dante : Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary / edited by Paola Nasti and Claudia Rossignoli. pages cm. — (The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978-0-268-03609-6 (pbk.) ISBN 978-0-268-17052-3 (web pdf) 1. Dante Alighieri, 1265 –1321— Criticism and interpretation. I. Nasti, Paola, editor of compilation. II. Rossignoli, Claudia, editor of compilation. PQ4390.I65 2014 851'.1— dc23

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∞The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources

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The William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies at the Univer- sity of Notre Dame supports rare book acquisitions in the university’s John A. Zahm Dante collections, funds visiting professorships, and supports electronic and print publication of scholarly research in the field. In collaboration with the Medieval Institute at the university, the Devers program initiated a series dedicated to the publication of the most significant current scholarship in the field of Dante studies. In 2011, the scope of the series was expanded to encom- pass thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian literature. In keeping with the spirit that inspired the creation of the Devers pro- gram, the series takes Dante and medieval Italian literature as focal points that draw together the many disciplines and lines of inquiry that constitute a cul- tural tradition without fixed boundaries. Accordingly, the series hopes to il- luminate this cultural tradition within contemporary critical debates in the humanities by reflecting both the highest quality of scholarly achievement and the greatest diversity of critical perspectives. The series publishes works from a wide variety of disciplinary viewpoints and in diverse scholarly genres, including critical studies, commentaries, edi- tions, reception studies, translations, and conference proceedings of excep- tional importance. The series enjoys the support of an international advi- sory board composed of distinguished scholars and is published regularly by the University of Notre Dame Press. The Dolphin and Anchor device that ap- pears on publications of the Devers series was used by the great humanist, grammarian, editor, and typographer Aldus Manutius (1449 –1515), in whose 1502 edition of Dante (second issue) and all subsequent editions it appeared. The device illustrates the ancient proverb Festina lente, “Hurry up slowly.”

Zygmunt G. Baran´ski, Theodore J. Cachey, Jr., and Christian Moevs, editors

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Albert Russell Ascoli, Berkeley

Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia

Piero Boitani, Rome

Patrick Boyde, Cambridge

Alison Cornish, Michigan

Claire Honess, Leeds

Christopher Kleinhenz, Wisconsin

Giuseppe Ledda, Bologna

Simone Marchesi, Princeton

Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale

Lino Pertile, Harvard

John A. Scott, Western Australia

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction

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   Reading, Writing, and Speech in the Fourteenth- and Fifteenth- Century Commentaries on Dante’sComedy•Steven Botterill

   Allegory as Avoidance in Dante’s Early Commentators: “bella menzogna” to “roza corteccia” •Robert Wilson

     Uses of Learning in the Dante Commentary of Iacomo della Lana •Spencer Pearce

    How to Read the Early Commentaries •Saverio Bellomo

    A Friar Critic: Guido da Pisa and the Carmelite Heritage •Paola Nasti

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   Guido da Pisa’s “Chantilly” Dante: A Complex Exegetical System •Lucia Battaglia Ricci

     Presenze delLiber de vita et moribus philosophorumnell’Ottimo CommentoallaCommedia•Massimiliano Corrado

     Pietro Alighieri and the Lexicon of theComedy •Massimiliano Chiamenti

    Modes of Reading in Boccaccio’sEsposizioni sopra la Comedia •Simon Gilson

   Tipologie compositive e hapax nel Commento alla “Commedia” di Francesco da Buti (con una nota sulla cultura grammaticale e lessicografica dell’autore) •Claudia Tardelli

      A “Commentary for the Court”: Guiniforte Barzizza •Corrado Calenda

     A Text in Movement: Trifon Gabriele’sAnnotationi nel Dante, 1527–1565 •Lino Pertile

        Castelvetro on Dante: Tradition, Innovation, and Mockery in theSposizione•Claudia Rossignoli

        A Pictorial Interpretation of Dante’sCommedia: Federigo Zuccari’sDante historiato•Andrea Mazzucchi

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       Notes on Nineteenth-Century Dante Commentaries and Critical Editions •John Lindon

List of Contributors

Index of Names and Subjects

Index of Passages from Dante’s Works

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