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"As Lucan Says": Dante's Reuse of the Bellum Civile in the Monarchia and the Political Epistles 《如卢坎所说》:但丁在《君主论》和《政治书信》中对“公民战争”的再利用

Scripta Mediaevalia Pub Date : 2018-04-30 DOI: 10.1353/MDI.2019.0003

Bianca Facchini

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Performing Dante or Building the Nation?: The Divina Commedia between Dramaturgy of Exile and Public Festivities 表演但丁还是建设国家?放逐戏剧与公共庆典之间的神曲

Scripta Mediaevalia Pub Date : 2017-12-28 DOI: 10.1353/MDI.2017.0002

Rossella Bonfatti

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Dante Politico: Toward a Mapping of Dante’s Political Thought 政治上的但丁:但丁政治思想的映射

Scripta Mediaevalia Pub Date : 2017-12-28 DOI: 10.1353/MDI.2017.0001

Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio

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Dante, Berlusconi, and the Bordello State: Paolo Sylos Labini’s and James Walston’s Democratic Dante at the Ebb of the Seconda Repubblica 但丁、贝卢斯科尼和妓院之国:保罗·西洛斯·拉比尼和詹姆斯·沃尔斯顿的《第二共和国衰退期的民主党但丁》

Scripta Mediaevalia Pub Date : 2017-12-28 DOI: 10.1353/MDI.2017.0008

Nicolino Applauso

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Dante Politico: An Introduction 政治但丁:简介

Scripta Mediaevalia Pub Date : 2017-12-28 DOI: 10.1353/MDI.2017.0000

Dennis Looney

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Reading Dante Impolitically: Gramsci’s Contrapuntal Criticism of Inferno 10 非政治地解读但丁:葛兰西对地狱篇的对位批评

Scripta Mediaevalia Pub Date : 2017-12-28 DOI: 10.1353/MDI.2017.0007

S. Selenu

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Dante in Gabriele D’annunzio’s Poetry and Prose: From Mystical Lover to Poeta Vate 加布里埃尔·达南齐奥的《诗文》中的但丁:从神秘情人到诗人之家

Scripta Mediaevalia Pub Date : 2017-12-13 DOI: 10.1353/MDI.2017.0004

Elena Borelli

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Giovanni Gentile’s Reading of Dante as Prophet of the State in interiore homine 乔瓦尼·詹蒂莱对但丁作为国家先知的解读

Scripta Mediaevalia Pub Date : 2017-12-13 DOI: 10.1353/MDI.2017.0006

Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio

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The Sexcentenary Commemoration of Dante’s Death and the German Re-Confessionalization of Dante: Friedrich Muckermann and der Gral 但丁逝世六百周年纪念与德国但丁的再忏悔:弗里德里希·穆克曼与德·格拉尔

Scripta Mediaevalia Pub Date : 2017-12-13 DOI: 10.1353/MDI.2017.0005

M. Elsky

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“Our Brother Dante”: Dantesque Reappropriations in Italian America 《我们的兄弟但丁》:意大利裔美国的但丁式改编

Scripta Mediaevalia Pub Date : 2017-12-13 DOI: 10.1353/MDI.2017.0003

M. Marazzi

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