Dante the Lyric and Ethical Poet

This book presents the proceedings of the fifth and final meeting of the International Dante Seminar. It addresses four major topics of present-day Dante studies: Dante as a lyric poet; Dante as an ethical poet; Dante and the Eclogues; and Dante in nineteenth-century Britain.

Autorentext

Zygmunt G. Bara'nski

Inhalt

Part I: Dante the Ethical Poet 1. Salus, venus, virtus. Poetica, politica ed etica tra il De vulgari eloquentia e la Commedia 2. Desiderio naturale, nobiltà dell'anima e grazia divina nel IV trattato del Convivio 3. E lascia pur grattar...': Language, Narrative and Ethics in the Commedia Part II: Dante the Lyric Poet 5. Trasformazioni e assenze: La performance della Vita nova e le figure di Dante e Cavalcanti 6. Dante's First Dream between Reception and Allegory: The Response to Dante da Maiano in the Vita nova 7. Dante: L'amore come destino Part III: Dante and the Eclogues 8. Il problema dello stile umile (e il riso di Dante) 9. Le Egloghe di Dante e l'antro di Polifemo 10. Dante 'Tityrus annosus' (Egloghe, IV. 12) Part IV: The Nineteenth-Century Revival 11. Dante, Leopardi and The City of Dreadful Night 12. Notes on the British Contribution to the Nineteenth-Century Rise of Dante Studies: Edward Moore and the Text of the Commedia