The Oxford Handbook of Dante

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The Oxford Handbook of Dante
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Editions and Translations
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Dante Unbound: A Vulnerable Life and the Openness of Interpretation
Part I: Texts and Textuality
	Chapter 1: The Author
		Introduction
		Dante-Poetand Dante-Character
		Dante and Authority
		Dante and Autobiography
	Chapter 2: Memory
		The Vita Nova and the Book of Memory
		The Convivio and the Memory of the Gift
		The Art of Memory in the Commedia, or Impassioned Memory
	Chapter 3: Reading
	Chapter 4: The Materiality of the Text and Manuscript Culture
	Chapter 5: The Manuscript Tradition, or on Editing Dante
		On Manuscripts and Editing
		Commedia: On Stemmatology and Geography
		Lyric Poems: From Poem to Book?
		Vita nova and Convivio: On Text Divisions and Why the Archetype Matters
		Beyond Editing: ‘Reception Philology’ and Back to the Author
	Chapter 6: Commentary (both by Dante and on Dante)
		By Dante
		On Dante
	Chapter 7: Digital Dante
Part II: Dialogues
	Chapter 8: The Classics
		‘Authoritative’ Authors
		Reading in the Middle Ages 1: Horace (and the Latin Comedians)
		‘The Good Guides’
		‘You Are My Auctor’
		Reading in the Middle Ages 2: The Auctores Maiores
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
	Chapter 9: Roman de la Rose
		What is the Rose?
		The ‘Rose-Event’ and the (Possible) Dante
		An Uninterrupted Dialogue (Rose and the ‘Authentic’ Dante)
		Hand-to-Hand Combat
	Chapter 10: Troubadours
	Chapter 11: Early Italian Lyric
		Dante as Love Poet
		The Vita nuova: Traversing Cavalcanti
		Purgatorio XXIV and XXVI: Before the ‘Dolce stil novo’
	Chapter 12: Comic Culture
	Chapter 13: Visual Culture
Part III: Transforming Knowledge
	Chapter 14: Encyclopaedism
		Introduction
		Encyclopaedia as a Genre and its Evolution in the Middle Ages
		The Convivio—An Encyclopaedic Text?
		Encyclopaedism and the Commedia
	Chapter 15: Medicine
	Chapter 16: Visual Theory
		Visual Theory in the Convivio
		Visual Theory in the Vita Nova
		Visual Theories in the Commedia
	Chapter 17: The Law
	Chapter 18: Politics
		A Political Life
		Dante’s ‘Political’ Corpus: Texts and Contexts
		Church and Empire
		Cities
		Conclusion
	Chapter 19: Philosophy and Theology
		A Philosopher in Paradise
		Dante’s Encounter with Philosophy
		The Convivio: A ‘Messianic’ Project of Philosophical Divulgation
		The Addressees of the Convivio
		Philosophy and its Limits
		Averroism or Anti-Averroism?
		Physiology and Physiognomy of Nobility
		From the Convivio to the Commedia
	Chapter 20: Religion
		Renewal
		Prayer
		Lady Poverty
	Chapter 21: Poetry
		AUIEO: The Mark of the Poet
		Poetry and the Preservation of Language
		The Reach of Vernacular Poetry
		A Sweet New Style
Part IV: Space(s) and Places
	Chapter 22: Florence and Rome
		A Linear Path?
			From ‘Florence’ to ‘Rome’ in the Commedia
			From ‘Florence’ to ‘Rome’ in Dante’s Life
			From City-Stateto the Universal Monarchy
			From the Guelph to the Ghibelline Party
		Tales of Two Cities
			Disembodied Cities (1292–1294)
			Hated Cities (1303)
			Mythical Cities (1304–1307)
			Political Cities (1311)
			Future Cities (1314 or 1315)
			Ancient Cities (1316–1321)
		A Circular Path?
	Chapter 23: Civitas/Community
		The Semantics of Dante’s Civitas
		The Problems of Dante’s Civitas
		Dante’s New Civitas
	Chapter 24: The Mediterranean
	Chapter 25: The East
		The East in Cartography
		Dante’s Political East: Failed History
		Islamic Learning
		The Fictional East
			a) Fictive Islam
			b) The East as outside the Christian World: An Honored Horizon
			c) The East as Source of ‘Wonders’
	Chapter 26: Exile
		Exile and Authorship
		The Lessons of Exile
		Exile and Pilgrimage
		Exile, the Earthly and the Heavenly City
	Chapter 27: Travelling/Wandering/Mapping
		Mapping Dante
		Acknowledgements
	Chapter 28: Dante’s Other Worlds
Part V: A Passionate Selfhood
	Chapter 29: Eschatological Anthropology
	Chapter 30: Language
	Chapter 31: The Mystical
	Chapter 32: Bodies on Fire
Part VI: A Non-Linear Dante
	Chapter 33: The Master Narrative and its Paradoxes
		Going Forward: Representations of the Future
		Branching out: Alternative Lives
		Overlapping Paths: Paradoxes
		Conclusion
	Chapter 34: Conversion, Palinody, Traces
		‘The girl who steps along’: Beatrice as Gradiva
		Words and Footprints: Vestiges in the Commedia
		(Non) Sequitur: Conversion and Imitation
		Retracing Our Steps: Back to Pompeii
		Acknowledgements
	Chapter 35: The Lyric Mode
		In Search of a Lyric Mode
		Beyond Measure: Pleasure, Excess, and the Lyric Mode
		Pleasure Unlimited: A Lyric Mode in the Paradiso
	Chapter 36: Errancy: A Brief History of Dante’s Ferm Voler
Part VII: Nachleben
	Chapter 37: Translations
		The Nineteenth Century
		The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
		Acknowledgements
	Chapter 38: Dante and the Performing Arts
		Lectura Dantis
		Stage Performance (with some Remarks on the Visual Arts)
		From the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
		Dante at the Turn of the Century
		Dante in the Twentieth Century
	Chapter 39: Dante on Screen
		The Literal Dante: Inferno (Francesco Bertolini and Adolfo Padovan, Milano Films, 1911)
		Allusive: Post-WarItalian Cinema’s Dante
		Structural: Zorn’s Lemma (1970) as Dantean Text
		Conclusion
	Chapter 40: Modernist Dante
		Introduction
		Sullenness: Samuel Beckett
		Resistance: Djuna Barnes
		Fatigue: Virginia Woolf
		Conclusion
	Chapter 41: Dante and the Shoah
	Chapter 42: Dante in Caribbean Poetics: Language, Power, Race
		‘Short History of Dis’, or Kingston as Postcolonial ‘House of Grief’
		‘Nation Language’: Theorizing Caribbean Vernacular Poetry with Dante
		Lorna Goodison: Thinking Power and Rhetoric through Dante
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
	Chapter 43: Queering Dante
	Chapter 44: A Decolonial Feminist Dante: Imperial Historiography and Gender
		Introduction
		Feminist Dantes
		The Decolonial Feminist Turn in Gender and Sexuality Studies
		Those who do not Understand History are Condemned to Repeat it
		The Visual vs the Verbal Archive
		Reading the Basilica of Santa Prassede
		How the Church Became Roman
		Reading the Commedia’s Historiography
Index of Passages Cited from Dante’s Works
Index of Names
Index of Concepts and Places