Journal Issue: Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies: Volume 2, Issue 1
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Publication DANTE TRANSLATING(2019-12-12) Kirkpatrick, RobinThis essay is intended as a discussion document. Its argument is that translation does not involve a search for conclusive authority but is rather a performative act, engaging the reader of a translation as well as its author in close critical engagement with the text. This may be said even in considering the translation of Dante’s Commedia—a work which all too often is thought to aim at final, definitive utterance.Publication Publication “A SIMPLE SUCKING OF THE TEETH:” BECKETT, DANTE AND THE “RISUS PURUS”(2019-12-12) Annett, ScottSamuel Beckett’s “Dante postcards” record the first three smiles to be found in the Purgatorio. In doing so, Becket draws attention to a gesture that has recently received significant critical attention within Dante studies. These postcards suggest Beckett’s alertness to the complexity of face to face encounters within the Commedia, while also providing an opportunity to consider the extent to which facial expressions are significant within Beckett’s own writing. In this essay, I argue that the postcards can be read alongside Beckett’s early novels, in particular, Murphy (English 1938, French 1947) and Watt (English 1953, French 1968). Moreover, I explore the extent to which Beckett's readings of Dante are multifaceted in that they demonstrate the extent to which he was both inspired by, and yet also at odds with, his Italian predecessor.Publication “LA GUERRA DE LA PIETATE:” DANTE’S DEFINITION OF MORAL SUBJECT IN THE ‘INFERNO’(2019-12-12) Rendall, ThomasAlthough a pun on the word pietà has been widely recognized in Virgil’s rebuke to Dante for pitying the diviners and sorcerers in Inferno20, the possibility of a double meaning for the word in the poem’s statement of the subject in Canto 2 has generally been ignored. That a pun is present, however, is supported by the source for this passage in the meeting between the hero and his father in Book 6 of the Aeneid—a context in which the word’s Latin root meaning “filial piety” is clearly implied. By the Early Middle Ages “duty to the father” had come to mean “duty to the Father,” and the pity/piety opposition expressed by the pun in Canto 2 is Dante’s definition of the moral subject of the Inferno. A trying struggle for both pilgrim and reader, the “guerra de la pietate” extends from varying degrees of theologically impermissible compassion for the souls in hell all the way to questioning the justice of God’s damnation of the virtuous pagans in the heights of heaven.Publication Publication MATERIALITY AND TEXTUALITY: EDITING AND REWRITING THE LYRIC DANTE IN HISTORY(2019-12-12) Banella, LauraThe paper presents the MaTeLDa project (Materiality and Textuality: Editing and Rewriting the Lyric Dante in History, Università degli Studi di Padova, 2018-2020), which offers an interdisciplinary study of how Dante was received and ‘canonized’ in late medieval and early modern Italy. MaTeLDa envisages the analysis of a selection of Dante’s texts in material contexts, and of specific instances of the circulation and reception of his lyric poetry, thereby laying the basis for a better understanding of medieval and early modern authoriality; the qualities of books as ‘textual objects;’ and the ways in which context, form, and annotation in single books may bestow cultural authority upon authors and works. The essay then investigates a case-study in order to illustrate some key aspects of the circulation of Dante’s lyric poetry and the construction of his figure as an Author between the thirteenth and the late fourteenth century: the peculiar case of the transmission of Dante’s experimental canzone in three languages (French, Latin, and Italian) “Aï faus ris.”Publication Marsilio Ficino. 'De Christiana Religione.' Guido Bartolucci, ed. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2019.(2019-12-12) Del Soldato, EvaPublication CARLINO’S CROSSINGS: STUART HOOD, DANTE AND A CIVIL WAR IN TUSCANY (1943-4)(2019-12-12) Havely, NickThe essay – which forms part of a larger project on travelers across the Tuscan Apennines – addresses three aspects of Dante’s presence in the region: first the poet's documented associations with and references to the mountains in which Stuart Hood (1915-2011) would find himself during the later years of World War II; secondly how readers of Dante had traced those associations within this landscape, especially during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (from the rise of bourgeois tourism to the Second World War); and thirdly Hood's wartime journeys in the Apennines and the relevance of his reading of Dante to the Tuscan "civil war" in which he himself became a combatant and to his later memoirs and novels which recall that conflict.
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