{"title":"Philosophy and Theology","authors":"P. Porro","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198820741.013.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198820741.013.21","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on Dante’s philosophical and theological interests, starting from the poet’s account of the genesis of his love for philosophy in the second treatise of the Convivio. The circumstances of Dante’s philosophical formation are recalled, together with the Convivio’s main themes. This latter work is presented and discussed as a bold project of philosophical dissemination in the vernacular aimed, in almost messianic tones, at bringing to completion the natural desire for knowledge in which the ultimate human happiness consists. Particular attention is also paid to the limits of this project, in terms of both its recipients and its content. Dante’s relationship with the Averroistic tradition, the medical and physiognomic approach to the question of nobility, and the persistence of some genuinely philosophical themes in the context of the poetic theology of the Commedia are also examined.","PeriodicalId":344891,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Dante","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131832522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Roman de la Rose","authors":"Antonio Montefusco","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198820741.013.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198820741.013.8","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter intends to outline, in a succinct yet critical manner, the essential elements allowing us to establish a link between Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun’s Roman de la Rose and the works of Dante, from the contested Fiore and Detto d’amore to the Commedia. Rather than seeking to provide an exhaustive picture, given the abundant critical literature available, this chapter addresses the following questions: 1) what is the Rose? 2) What did it represent to the generation of Tuscan poets from the second half of the 13th century, Cavalcanti and the young Dante, in particular? 3) What was its role in Dantean writing, especially in its complex poetics, politics, and organization of knowledge?","PeriodicalId":344891,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Dante","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126184295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Author","authors":"Justin Steinberg","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvswx818.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvswx818.3","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter will examine Dante both as an historical author as well as the ‘author figure’ he performs in his texts, with particular attention to the tension between these two forms of authorship. The chapter proceeds through three interrelated sections: 1) Dante-poet and Dante-character; 2) Authorship and authority; and 3) Dante and autobiography. In each section the focus is not just on what Dante-the-author is but also on what Dantean authorship does. The casting of himself as the character of some of his works, the establishment of the authoritative status of vernacular poets alongside the ancients, and the ‘pact’ made with his readers are all strategies in the creation of his truly original figure of the author.","PeriodicalId":344891,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Dante","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126342256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Law","authors":"Diego Quaglioni","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.20","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the way Dante’s major works, like Monarchia and Convivio, articulate a strong and complex interrelation among religious, political, and legal concepts. Dante’s Commedia, too, is a universal masterpiece whose literary-theoretical framework is simultaneously and manifestly a legal one. Dante the political philosopher as well as Dante the poet fully assimilated the legal culture of his century. He was not a canonist or a jurist either, even though he quoted canon and Roman law everywhere, castigating papal decretals and the decretalists in the harshest terms but also following some traditional lines of legal thought. Indeed, the legal maxims quoted by Dante are one with the structure of his discourse and argumentation, even when Dante follows closely precise legal enunciations of the sources, showing how phrases from the texts of the Corpus iuris civilis or of the Corpus iuris canonici had become part of general educated discourse among non-lawyers.","PeriodicalId":344891,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Dante","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124201353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modernist Dante","authors":"D. Caselli","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.40","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter traces a history of Dante’s reception in anglophone literature between the 1870s and the 1950s. It acknowledges his importance in Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce, but engages more closely with Samuel Beckett, Djuna Barnes, and Virginia Woolf. It shows that the modernist Dante that emerges from these authors’ work is both a formal and political one: recruited as an anti-authoritarian voice from the past and seen anew from feminist and queer perspectives, this is not a twenty-first century Dante forced against his will to virtue-signal, however; on the contrary, this is a Dante anachronistically familiar with key ‘vices’ of twentieth-century authors, readers and commentators. Focusing on sullenness, resistance, and fatigue, the chapter argues for a new understanding of modernist experiments with Dante’s political and formal complexity that refuse to use him as a ‘code or a weapon […] to crush someone’, as Dorothy Richardson put it.","PeriodicalId":344891,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Dante","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121233087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translations","authors":"M. Mclaughlin","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.45","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter deals with versions of Dante’s Commedia in English, confining itself to translations of either the whole poem or of at least one cantica. It notes that English translations of the Commedia appear later than those of other European languages, and that it is only after 1900 that English versions start to outnumber those in French. It charts the history of these translations over two centuries from Henry Boyd’s version in 1802 to Clive James’s translation in 2013 and to Alasdair Gray’s Inferno of 2018. The chapter also offers an analysis of a number of excerpts across all three cantiche, illustrating the adequacy or otherwise of the translations, and commenting on metrical solutions. The statistics are striking: since 1850 there have been an average of thirty-three English versions of the poem or of one cantica every half century, and even in the nineteen years since the millennium there have been twenty-seven such versions, so the enthusiasm of anglophone writers and readers for Dante even seems to be increasing.","PeriodicalId":344891,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Dante","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114498355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Troubadours","authors":"W. Burgwinkle","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.9","url":null,"abstract":"Dante was not only artistically inspired by the troubadours, he also constructed his life and œuvre through an uncanny engagement with their example as political and poetic figures. From an early introduction to their innovative styles and topics, through an exile that echoed their own, some eighty years earlier, he found in them models for his art and for his own unwitting travels. Like them, in exile, and in thrall to patrons and causes, composing on demand, suffering the indignities of misunderstanding and old age, he produced work in his later years which references their own and in which they themselves sometimes play a part. Using Bruno Latour’s notion of the network, this chapter argues for a new reading of Dante and the troubadours, one which sees him as working within such a vortex, passing through the work of his predecessors and serving as a mediator for poetic knowledge.","PeriodicalId":344891,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Dante","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134003174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religion","authors":"Alessandro Vettori","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.32","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the way in which Dante forges an original form of religiosity in his work by embracing Franciscan and apocalyptic ideas. It focuses on three aspects: the prophetic spirit that animates Dante’s critique of the Church and his call for spiritual renewal; his emphasis on the transformative power of prayer and its role in the poet’s construction of his spiritual authority; and the celebration of the female role in salvation through the figures of Lady Poverty and Beatrice. Franciscan thought on Poverty, from Joachim of Flora to radicals such as Ubertino da Casale and Peter John Olivi, informs Dante’s theological (but also political and spiritual) reflections on religion. Moreover, Dante’s personal exile becomes a metaphor for Christian peregrinations on earth, a figura of homo viator’s pilgrimage toward the final destination in the afterlife.","PeriodicalId":344891,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Dante","volume":"7 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130111605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queering Dante","authors":"Gary P. Cestaro","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.43","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter investigates the queer in Dante. By queer we understand a critical practice that resists both heteronormative assumptions about desire and fixed binary notions of gender. The essay explores where and how Dante’s texts engage difference around sexuality/gender, especially sodomy and same-sex desire. It also surveys professional academic reactions to queer moments in Dante’s poem, particularly the sodomy cantos (Inf. XV–XVI, Purg. XXVI), where we detect a distinct strain of homophobic defensiveness. Finally, the essay begins to recount the fascinating history of Dante reception by queer readers—armchair enthusiasts and activists, scholars, poets, writers, and filmmakers.","PeriodicalId":344891,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Dante","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121447282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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