Dante's multitudes : history, philosophy, method / Teodolinda Barolini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barolini, Teodolinda, 1951- author.

Series:

William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and medieval Italian literature

The William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and medieval Italian literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation.

Dante Alighieri.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxi, 387 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In Dante’s Multitudes, the newest addition to the renowned William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature, Teodolinda Barolini gathers sixteen of her essays exploring the revolutionary character of Dante’s work. Embracing the Vita Nuova, De vulgari eloquentia, Convivio, Epistles, Monarchia, and Rime, and of course the Divine Comedy, these essays together feature the many facets of the poet’s enduring legacy. Dante’s Multitudes showcases the poet’s embrace of multiplicity, difference, and disruption in five parts, each with its own general focus. It begins with an introductory essay on method and the use of history in order to set the stage for the expert analyses that follow. Barolini treats various topics in Dante studies, including sexualized and racialized others in the Comedy, Dante’s unorthodox conception of limbo, his celebration of metaphysical difference within the paradoxical unity of the Paradiso, and his use of Aristotle to think disruptively about wealth and society, on the one hand, and about love and compulsion, on the other. The volume closes with a final meditation on method and “critical philology,” highlighting the ways in which philology has been used uncritically to bolster fallacious hermeneutical narratives about one of the West’s most celebrated and influential poets. Barolini once again opens avenues for further research in this compelling collection of essays. This volume will be of interest to scholars in Dante studies, Italian studies, and medieval and Renaissance literature more broadly."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Social and Cultural Difference

One. "Only Historicize": History, Material Culture (Food, Clothes, Books), and the Future of Dante Studies

Two. Dante's Sympathy for the Other, or the Non-Stereotyping Imagination: Sexual and Racialized Others in the Commedia

Three. Contemporaries Who Found Heterodoxy in Dante: Cecco d'Ascoli, Boccaccio, and Benvenuto da Imola on Fortuna and Inferno 7.89

Four. Dante's Limbo and Equity of Access: Non-Christians, Children, and Criteria of Inclusion and Exclusion, from Inferno 4 to Paradiso 32

pt. II Metaphysical Difference

Five. Toward a Dantean Theology of Eros: From Dante's Lyrics to the Paradiso

Six. Amicus eius: Dante and the Semantics of Friendship

Seven. Paradiso and the Mimesis of Ideas: Realism versus Reality

Eight. Dante Squares the Circle: Textual and Philosophical Affinities of Monorchia and Paradiso (Solutio Distinctiva in Mon. 3A.17 and Par. 4.94

114)

Nine. Difference as Punishment or Difference as Pleasure: From the Tower of Babel in De vulgari eloquentia to the Death of Babel in Paradiso 26

pt. III Aristotelian Disruptions 1: Wealth and Society

Ten. Aristotle's Mezzo, Courtly Misura, and Dante's Canzone "Le dolci rime": Humanism, Ethics, and Social Anxiety

Eleven. Dante and Wealth, Between Aristotle and Cortesia: From the Moral Canzoni "Le dolci rime" and "Poscia ch'Amor" through Convivio to Inferno 6 and 7

pt. IV Aristotelian Disruptions 2: Love and Compulsion

Twelve. Archeology of the Donna Gentile. The Importance of Disconversion in Conversion Narratives

Thirteen. Dante and Cecco d'Ascoli on Love and Compulsion: The Episde to Cino, "Io sono stato," the Third Heaven

Fourteen. "Voi che 'ntendendo il terzo ciel movete," A Dramatization of "utrum de passione in passionem possit anima transformari": Conflict, Compulsion, Consent, Conversion

pt. V Critical Philology and Italian Cultural History

Fifteen. The Case of the Lost Original Ending of Dante's Vita Nuova: More Notes Toward a Critical Philology

Sixteen. Critical Philology and Dante's Rime.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0268202931

9780268202934

026820294X

9780268202941

OCLC:

1295215704