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Dante Alighieri
(1265-1321)
Italian poet
 10 other titles

Legenda: Oxford, 2010
£45.00 ($89.50 US)  Hardback  260pp
ISBN: 978-1-906540-04-3

This book presents the proceedings of the fifth and final meeting of the International Dante Seminar. The papers, given by some of the leading international scholars of the poet – from Italy, the UK and the USA – address four major topics of particular concern to present-day Dante studies: Dante as a lyric poet; Dante as an ethical poet; Dante and the Eclogues; and Dante in nineteenth-century Britain. These topics reflect both areas which are currently the subject of heated critical debate (several new editions of the lyric poems have recently appeared or are in preparation, and the ethical dimension of Dante’s works is very much under discussion) and areas which are long overdue a reassessment (Dante’s remarkable revival of Latin pastoral poetry, and the extraordinary British contribution to Dante studies in the nineteenth century). As this set of conference proceedings makes clear, in Dante and in his legacy, ethics and poetry are inseparable.

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.

With the contributions:

Claire E. Honess — Salus, venus, virtus. Poetica, politica ed etica tra il De vulgari eloquentia e la Commedia
Paolo Falzone — Desiderio naturale, nobiltà dell’anima e grazia divina nel iv trattato del Convivio
Robin Kirkpatrick, George Corbett — ‘E lascia pur grattar...’: Language, Narrative and Ethics in the Commedia
Manuele Gragnolati — Trasformazioni e assenze: la performance della Vita nova e le figure di Dante e Cavalcanti
Justin Steinberg — Dante’s First Dream between Reception and Allegory: The Response to Dante da Maiano in the Vita nova
Claudio Giunta — Dante: l’amore come destino
Claudia Villa — Il problema dello stile umile (e il riso di Dante)
Lino Pertile — Le Egloghe di Dante e l’antro di Polifemo
Paola Allegretti — Dante ‘Tityrus annosus’ (Egloghe, iv. 12)
Michael Caesar — Dante, Leopardi and The City of Dreadful Night
John Lindon — Notes on the British Contribution to the Nineteenth-Century Rise of Dante Studies: Edward Moore and the Text of the Commedia