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Dante Studies
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ISSN (Print) 2470-4261 - ISSN (Online) 2470-427X
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press

[22 journals]

Dante Alighieri nell’Archivio Apostolico Vaticano: un documento del
1320
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  Abstract: In sede sia diplomatica che storica copie posteriori di documenti anteriori, se autenticate dai notai, sono abitualmente considerate attendibili. Se così non si facesse buona parte della storia, non solo di Dante Alighieri, ma fiorentina e medievale in genere, sarebbe da rimettere radicalmente in questione. È però importante che il lettore abbia a disposizione tutte le informazioni relative alla trafila che ci tramanda i documenti che riguardano Dante ma che non sono arrivati fino a noi in originale. È importante che il dantista sia ben cosciente di questa trafila, non anodina né esente da ipoteche ideologiche, perché egli stesso contribuisce alla sua prosecuzione. Possiamo però essere radicalmente posti davanti a ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-02T00:00:00-05:00
Diagrammatic Formats from Page to Wall: Dante and the Strozzi Chapel,
Revisited
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  Abstract: In the 1350s, Nardo di Cione painted a fresco in Santa Maria Novella in Florence that blends narrative, allegorical, and diagrammatic modes of representation. Nardo’s fresco (fig. 1) is a giant vision of Hell, now badly faded, painted in the Strozzi Chapel in the mid-1350s as part of a larger pictorial program that included a Last Judgment, a vision of Paradise, and his brother Andrea’s famous “Strozzi Altarpiece” of Christ Enthroned.1 Nardo’s Hell is an example of a new type of painting that took shape over these years: a moralizing allegorical construction, devised in large scale for the edification of viewers, that placed narrativizing details in the service of a fundamentally diagrammatic painting. Nardo’s ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-02T00:00:00-05:00
Dante, Peacemaker of the Lunigiana
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  Abstract: During Dante’s lifetime the bishops of Luni and the house of Malaspina vied with one another for domination of the Magra River valley, the heart of the Lunigiana region, where Ligurian, Tuscan, and Emilian political and economic interests often met. The convergence and sometimes the collision of those interests were aided by the Via Francigena and other thoroughfares that facilitated communications across this frontier zone.1 Although the area’s towns lay at some remove from the powerful city-states of northern and central Italy, they were close enough to their spheres of influence to be drawn into their factional wars, which anticipated the Trecento’s broader ideological clashes between republican and autocratic ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-02T00:00:00-05:00
La versione dantesca della corte celeste
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  Abstract: Il saggio intende inquadrare la struttura del paradiso dantesco nella teologia, nelle consuetudini e nelle pratiche religiose e liturgiche del tempo, così da apprezzare l’interpretazione di un modello che si dimostra necessario nell’essenza, ma non pedissequamente vincolante nella forma. Quando Dante viene ostacolato dalle tre fiere che gli sbarrano la strada incontra Virgilio che lo incoraggia ad attraversare l’oltretomba per raggiungere la salvezza e che, prospettando i tre snodi del percorso ultraterreno, accenna solo alle “disperate strida” e agli “antichi spiriti dolenti” per definire il luogo della dannazione (Inf. 1.115–116) e a “color che son contenti / nel foco” per descrivere quello della purgazione ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-02T00:00:00-05:00
Un’ipotesi sulla data di inizio della composizione
dell’Inferno e del Purgatorio
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  Abstract: In tutto l’Inferno, fra molti dati che non vanno oltre il 1307, due soli potrebbero forse portarci, l’uno fino al 1312, l’altro fino al 1314; in tutto il Purgatorio non un solo dato sicuro allude a fatti del 1314 o posteriori: con che diritto dunque si asserisce che il Poema fosse cominciato nel 1314, chiamando punto di partenza quello ch’è quasi il punto d’arrivo'Quest’ipotesi dei ritocchi sembra a prima vista molto ragionevole, soprattutto perché consente di conciliare l’idea preconcetta sulla stesura dell’Inferno nel 1304–’08 con le nume-rose “fughe in avanti” presenti nella cantica. Il dispositivo è di semplice applicazione. Ogniqualvolta s’incappi in una “diffrazione” cronologica, si ricorre all’ipotesi del ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-02T00:00:00-05:00
Henry Moore’s Wartime Drawings (1939–1942) and the Influence of
Gustave Doré’s Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy
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  Abstract: Despite the apparent serenity of Henry Moore’s undulating, weatherworn sculptures, there is a deep ambiguity that makes it difficult to pinpoint their precise nature. Moore’s curvaceous yet cavernous figures, with their hollowed-out innards and broken limbs, often speak to an uneasy balance between sheltered protection and exposed vulnerability. The interpretation of his work is complicated by the fact that the artist drew inspiration from such a wide range of sources, from contemporary Surrealism, Cubism, and Abstraction through to Renaissance, medieval, and so-called primitive art.2 In this essay I will argue that Moore was also inspired by Gustave Doré’s illustrations for Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. I see ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-02T00:00:00-05:00
Paradiso 33: Song of the Return
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  Abstract: And now the Pilgrim is about to encounter God, and the Poet is about to write the last words of the Commedia. Neither Pilgrim nor Poet will have an easy time with closure—if closure this actually is—nor will the reader. This last song—which sings of the Pilgrim’s return both to his Divine Home and to his mundane one— invites our vision to lift itself più alto verso l'ultima salute (Par. 33.27–28).2 This canto, offering the highest verses of the poem, is among the most beautiful penned in Western literature. How can one convey in words That Which is beyond words' Can the ineffable be expressed only through sleight of hand, in the negative space that exists between words' Or does that task demand the total of all ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-02T00:00:00-05:00
John Freccero (1931–2021)
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  Abstract: John Freccero, Professor Emeritus of Italian and Comparative Literature at New York University, died on November 22, 2021 in Santa Cruz, California in the company of his family. He was ninety years old. He was predeceased by his wife Diane; he is survived by his first wife Yvonne, his children Carla, Stephen, Francesca, and Paola, and his grandchildren Isabella, Daniela, and Elijah. He is remembered as one of the greatest Dante scholars of his or any generation and a brilliant, inspiring teacher. His many publications and accolades hardly manage to capture the sweeping influence he had on the academic world and especially on his students, many of whom went on to become beloved teachers and prominent scholars ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-02T00:00:00-05:00