Interpreting Dante : essays on the traditions of Dante Commentary / edited by Paola Nasti and Claudia Rossignoli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nasti, Paola, editor.

Rossignoli, Claudia, editor.

Series:

William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and medieval Italian literature ; 13.

William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature ; Volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Dante Alighieri.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (487 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Series List

Title Page

Copyright

Series Description

Contents

Acknowledgments

Ilustrations

Introduction

1. Reading, Writing, and Speech in the Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Commentaries on Dante's Comedy

2. Allegory as Avoidance in Dante's Early Commentators: "bella menzogna" to "roza corteccia"

3. Uses of Learning in the Dante Commentary of Iacomo della Lana

4. How to Read the Early Commentaries

5. A Friar Critic: Guido da Pisa and the Carmelite Heritage

6. Guido da Pisa's "Chantilly" Dante: A Complex Exegetical System

7. Presenze del Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum nell'Ottimo Commento alla Commedia

8. Pietro Alighieri and the Lexicon of the Comedy

9. Modes of Reading in Boccaccio's Esposizioni sopra la Comedia

10. Tipologie compositive e hapax nel Commento alla "Commedia" di Francesco da Buti (con una nota sulla cultura grammaticale e lessicografica dell'autore)

11. A "Commentary for the Court": Guiniforte Barzizza

12. A Text in Movement: Trifon Gabriele's Annotationi nel Dante, 1527- 1565

13. Castelvetro on Dante: Tradition, Innovation, and Mockery in the Sposizione

14. A Pictorial Interpretation of Dante's Commedia: Federigo Zuccari's Dante historiato

15. Notes on Nineteenth-Century Dante Commentaries and Critical Editions

Contributors

Index of Names and Subjects

Index of Passages from Dante's Works.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780268170523

0268170525

OCLC:

1504166431