Dante the Lyric and Ethical Poet: Dante Lirico E Etico

by Zygmunt G. Bara'nski

Overview

This book presents the proceedings of the fifth and final meeting of the International Dante Seminar. It addresses four major topics of present-day Dante studies: Dante as a lyric poet; Dante as an ethical poet; Dante and the Eclogues; and Dante in nineteenth-century Britain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367602390
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Zygmunt G. Baranski is Serena Professor of Italian, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Murray Edwards College.

Martin McLaughlin is Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Magdalen College.

Table of Contents

Introductory Note ix

Notes on the Contributors xi

Abbreviations xiv

Part I Dante the Ethical Poet

1 Salus, venus, virtus. Poetica, politica ed etica era il De vulgari eloquentia e la Commedia Claire E. Honess 2

2 Desiderio naturale, nobiltà dell'anima e grazia divina nel iv trattato del Convivio Paolo Falzone 24

3 'E lascia pur grattar…': Language, Narrative and Ethics in the Commedia Robin Kirkpatrick George Corbett 56

Part II Dante the Lyric Poet

4 Trasformazioni e assenze: la performance della Vita nova e le figure di Dante e Cavalcanti Manuele Gragnolati 74

5 Dante's First Dream between Reception and Allegory: The Response to Dante da Maiano in the Vita nova Justin Steinberg 92

6 Dante: l'amore come destino Claudio Giunta 119

Part III Dante and the Eclogues

7 Il problema dello stile umile (e il riso di Dante) Claudia Villa 138

8 Le Egloghe di Dante e l'antro di Polifemo Lino Pertile 153

9 Dante 'Tityrus annosus' (Egloghe, iv. 12) Paola Allegretti 168

Part IV The Nineteenth-Century Revival

10 Dante, Leopardi and The City of Dreadful Night Michael Caesar 210

11 Notes on the British Contribution to the Nineteenth-Century Rise of Dante Studies: Edward Moore and the Text of the Commedia John Lindon 227

Index 241