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Dante’s Sacramental Poetics. Confession in the Commedia
No full textThis article seeks to investigate Dante’s intertwining of two confessional models, the sacramental and the Augustinian, throughout the first two cantiche of the Commedia. It shows how the poem repeatedly stages confessions that are either ineffective or unorthodox, in a bid to redefine the forms of truthfulness and authority that accompany the first person, allowing the poet to engage in confessional and prophetic forms of discourse. To do so, the article considers contemporary developments in theology and ecclesiastical practice so as to understand how Dante positions both his poem and himself as author vis-à-vis the important changes that occurred in the Latin Church in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215
[Review to:] Pellegrini, Paolo. Dante Alighieri. Una vita. Turin: Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, 2021. Pp. 246
No full text[Review to:] MLN Volume 134 Supplement. Tradition and the Individual Text: Essays in Memory of Pier Massimo Forni edited by Federica Brunori Deigan, Francesco Ciabattoni, and Stefano Giannini, pp. 435. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
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A Case of Medieval Plurilingualism in the 'Roman de Renart'. The Two Versions of Branche V in ms. H (Paris, BNF, Arsenal 3334)
No full textThis article examines the phenomenon of plurilingualism in two versions of Branche V of the Roman de Renart, transmitted by MS. H. Whereas the shorter version seems to mainly be in dialogue with hagiography and chansons de geste, the longer version’s indebtedness to the genres of courtly romance and penitential preaching would seem to suggest its belonging to a later period in the development of the Old French literary tradition. More broadly, the analysis this contribution provides shows the complex ways in which plurilingualism operated in Old French texts belonging to the second half of the twelfth century
[Recensione a:] Guittone morale. Tradizione e interpretazione, éd. Lorenzo Geri, Marco Grimaldi, Nicolò Maldina, Maria Rita Traina, Florence, SISMEL–Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2019 ; 1 vol., X–428 p. (mediEVI, 22). ISBN : 978-88-8450-919-2
No full textGuido e la volpe: Inferno XXVII e la tradizione renardiana antico-francese
No full textPrendendo in esame la storia letteraria e iconografica della volpe durante il medioevo, questo articolo indaga l’uso che Dante fa di fonti francesi nel ventisettesimo canto dell’Inferno. L’auto-descrizione in cui Guido da Montefeltro si paragona a una volpe viene collegata alla tradizione del Roman de Renart e alle sue continuazioni duecentesche, come anche ad altre opere satiriche in volgare che includono il Roman de la Rose e il Fiore. Dimostrando la familiarità di Dante con questo materiale romanzo, l’articolo suggerisce che le fonti antico-francesi della Commedia vadano ben al di là di quelle identificate nel De vulgari eloquentia e costituiscano una parte essenziale dell’aspetto “comico” del poemaBy examining the literary and iconographic history of the fox during the Middle Ages, this article seeks to demonstrate Dante’s reliance on Old French sources in canto XXVII of the Inferno. Guido da Montefeltro’s description of his behaviour as a fox is shown to refer back to the tradition of the Roman de Renart and its sequels, as well as later satirical texts in the vernacular, including the Roman de la Rose and the Fiore. By arguing for Dante’s familiarity with this material, the article suggests that the Comedy’s Old French sources range well beyond the ones identified in the De vulgari eloquentia and constitute an essential part of the poem’s “comedic” natur
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