Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation

Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Prologue
Acknowledgments
Note on Text and Translation
Chapter
1 Introduction: The Vita nuova as Theological Revelation through Lyrical Interpretation
	Salutation and Salvation
	Lyrical Exaltation and Theological Revelation
	Conspectus
Chapter
2 The New Testament Model of Salvific Reminiscence
	Corollaries from the Convivio
Chapter
3 From Appearing and Imagining to Revealing through Interpreting: The Vita nuova’s Hermeneutics of Witness
	Poetic Epiphany as Life-Transforming Theophany
	Dialectic of Subjective Appearing and Visionary Revealing
	The Figurative Logic of the Unique and Its Multiple Repetitions
	The Reflected Image and Its Being Broken Open to Transcendence
	Dialectical Interpenetration of Inspiration and Reflection
	The Intimate Secret of the Subject’s Nothingness
Chapter
4 Phenomenology versus Hermeneutics (Debate with Harrison): Revelation as Mediation
	Hermeneutics of (Theological) Transcendence
	Note on Current Criticism and Its Demythologizing of Theological Transcendence
Chapter
5 History of Effect and a New Hermeneutics-Oriented Critical Paradigm
	Transmedial Transmissions: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Cult of the Vita nuova
	Picture Album
Chapter 6 Conclusion: The Existential Grounding of Revelation in Lyric
	From Dante’s “Little Book” to the Book of – and as – Revelation
Coda
Epilogue: Dream Epistemology and ReligiousRevelation in Dante’s Vita nuova
	The Vita nuova’s Initiatory Dream in Its Cultural Contexts
	De-limiting Knowledge through Poetry and through Dream
	Dream Hermeneutics
Appendix Italian Text and English Translation of the Vita nuova
	Chapter I: Incipit of Book of Memory
	Chapter II: Dante’s First Meeting with Beatrice
	Chapter III: Greeting and Dream
	Chapter IV: Dante Sick and Secretive in Love
	Chapter V: A Screen Lady
	Chapter VI: A Serventese for Sixty Ladies, Beatrice the Ninth
	Chapter VII: The Screen Lady Departs Outside Florence
	Chapter VIII: Poem on the Death of Beatrice’s Companion
	Chapter IX: Love Appears on Road from Florence and DesignatesAnother Screen Lady
	Chapter X: Beatrice Denies Dante Her Greeting
	Chapter XI: Miraculous Effects of Beatrice’s Greeting Described
	Chapter XII: Dream of God of Love as Young Man Dressedin White – and a Ballad
	Chapter XIII: Thoughts of Love at War with One Another
	Chapter XIV: Dante Distraught (“Transfigured”) and Mocked at MarriageFeast
	Chapter XV: Why Dante Continues to Try to See His Lady
	Chapter XVI: The State of Being in Love – Its Conflicts
	Chapter XVII: A New and Nobler Theme
	Chapter XVIII: Interrogated by Ladies, Dante Discovers New Matterfor His Poetry
	Chapter XIX: First Canzone of Praise: “Ladies Who Have Intelligenceof Love”
	Chapter XX: What Is Love? “Love and the Gentle Heart Are One Thing”
	Chapter XXI: How Beatrice Awakens Love
	Chapter XXII: The Death of Beatrice’s Father
	Chapter XXIII: Dante’s Delirious Premonition of Beatrice’s Death(Second Canzone)
	Chapter XXIV: Allegorical Procession Featuring Giovannaand Beatrice
	Chapter XXV: Philosophical Justification of Treating Love Rhetoricallyas a Substance
	Chapter XXVI: Height of Praise Poetry – “Tanto Gentile e Tanto
Onesta Pare”
	Chapter XXVII: Beatrice’s Effects on Dante and a CanzoneFragment
	Chapter XXVIII: The Death of Beatrice
	Chapter XXIX: Her Miraculous Number – She was Nine (Analogically)
	Chapter XXX: Dante’s Letter to the Leaders of the Land
	Chapter XXXI: The Canzone (Third) of Mourning for Beatrice
	Chapter XXXII: A Poem on Sighs for One of Beatrice’s Brothers
	Chapter XXXIII: Two Stanzas of a Canzone
	Chapter XXXIV: Drawing an Angel on the Anniversaryof Beatrice’s Death
	Chapter XXXV: The Gentle Lady at the Window Takes Pity on Dante
	Chapter XXXVI: A Further Sonnet of Infatuation with the Ladyat the Window
	Chapter XXXVII: Dante Reproves His Own Pleasure in the PityingLady at the Window
	Chapter XXXVIII: Battle of Heart versus Soul, Eyes versusRemembrance
	Chapter XXXIX: A Strong Imagination of Beatrice Fortifies Danteagainst Temptation
	Chapter XL: Pilgrims to Rome Made to Participate in Civic Mourning
	Chapter XLI: Poem for Two Gentle Ladies: “Oltre la Spera”
	Chapter XLII: Marvelous Vision of Beatrice in Glory and Suspensionof Dante’s Writing
Index