Understanding Dante:
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| adam_text | Contents
About the Series xiii
Preface xv
Electronic Resources xix
Editions of Dante s Works xxi
Abbreviations xxv
Chronology, 1215—1321 xxvii
List of Illustrations xxxi
1. Dante s New Life: Vita Nova
Beatrice 1
The prose commentary to the poems selected 2
Beatrice s revelations 3
First sonnet 4
Screen ladies 5
The end of the first section 6
Beatrice denies her greeting 7
The second section 9
The core discovery 10
Sweet new style 13
Love and the noble heart 14
The death of Folco Portinari 14
Premonition of Beatrice s death 15
Beatrice s earthly apotheosis 16
Personification allegory and vernacular love poetry 17
Praise of Beatrice 19
The unfinished poem and Beatrice s death 20
Beatrice and the number nine 21
Dante s sorrow 24
Anniversary poem 25
A noble lady (donna gentile) 26
Eastertide, 1292 27
A visionary ending 27
Conclusion 29
Texts and translations 31
Other readings 31
2. Language and the craft of literature: De vulgari eloquentia
The vernacular versus Latin (grammar) 35
Dante and the Modistae 36
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Language, the hallmark of the human race 37
Babel and its aftermath 39
The mutability of language: Grammar as an artificial remedy 41
The regional languages of Italy 42
The illustrious vernacular 44
Book 2 45
Who may use the illustrious vernacular, and for which subjects? 46
The canzone as poetic vehicle for the illustrious vernacular 46
The canzone 47
The noblest style 48
Lexis 51
The structure of the canzone 52
Place of composition 56
The work in general 57
Critical fortunes 58
Conclusion 59
Texts and translations 60
Other readings 61
3. Dante s lyric poetry: Rime 63
Early influences 64
The mature poet s purist phase 69
Poetry and philosophy 71
Voi che ntendendo il terzo del movete (lxxix: 59) 71
Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona (lxxxi: 61) 72
Le dolci rime d amor ch V solia (lxxxii: 69) and Posda ch Amor del tutto
m ha lasdato (lxxxih: 70) 74
The petrose poems (c cm: 77 80) 76
Io son venuto al punto de la rota (c: 77) 77
Alpocogiorno e al gran cerchio d ombra (ci: 78) 80
Amor, tu vedi ben che questa donna (en: 79) 83
Cosi nel mio parlar voglio esser aspro (cm: 80) 85
Tre donne intorno al cor mi son venute (civ: 81) 89
Sonnets exchanged with Cino (xciv—xcvn, cx cxv: 84a—88 a) 93
Amor, da che convien pur ch io mi doglia (cxvi: 89) 96
Doglia mi reca ne lo core ardire (cvi: 83) 98
Se vedi li occhi miei di pianger vaghi (cv: 82) 100
Conclusion: Themes, influences, and forms 102
Texts and translations 105
Other readings 105
4 Dante s Banquet of knowledge: Convivio 107
Aristotle 108
Philosophy 109
Dante s passionate defense of Italian 109
Book 2 (allegory and cosmology) 112
Allegory 112
The literal sense of Voi che ntendendo 115
Contents ix
Astronomy and angels 116
Beatrice and the soul s immortality 119
The Consolation of Philosophy 120
The universe of knowledge and the pre eminence of ethics 122
Book 3: A hymn of love to philosophical wisdom 124
Dante s orthodoxy 126
Book 4: Philosophy, society, and politics 129
Rome and her universal empire 129
The nature of nobility 132
Second part of book 4 133
Differences between book 4 and books 1—3 135
The four ages of man 136
Conclusion 139
Texts and translations 141
Other readings 142
5. Dante s vision of world empire and peace: Monarchia 143
Date of composition 143
Purpose of the work 144
Book 1: Is the empire necessary? 145
Human society s need for peace 147
Structure of book I 148
Justice and the empire 149
Book 2 150
Rome acquired empire in conformity with God s will 151
Vergil s role 151
Miracles and Roman heroes 152
Christ and the empire 154
Book 3 155
Structure of book 3 157
Sun and moon analogy 157
Biblical precedents 158
Constantine s Donation and historical precedents 160
Dante s solution 162
Texts and translations 165
Other readings 166
6. The Comedy, prolegomena: The prologue scene (Inferno 1—2) 167
The poem s fictional chronology and date of composition 167
The poem s title: Why comedy ? 171
The Prologue: Inferno 1 2 173
The poem s ternary structure 175
Allegory 176
The three beasts of canto 1 177
Virgil, the pilgrim s guide through both hell and purgatory 178
Beatrice and Bernard 181
Biblical and Vergilian elements and motifs 182
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Archetypal images: Forest /desert/ sea 184
Exodus 185
Beatrice and grace 187
Conclusion 190
7. Dante s other world: Moral order 191
The moral order of Inferno 191
The moral order of Purgatorio 195
The law of contrapasso in hell and purgatory 198
Contrapasso in hell 198
Contrapasso in Purgatorio 199
The moral order of Paradiso 201
The poet s personal evaluation of sins 208
8. Dante s other world: Topography and demography 213
Topography of the Comedy 214
Hell 215
Purgatory 218
Paradise 221
The poem s demography 225
Classification of the poem s dramatis personae 226
Contemporary figures 227
Biblical and classical figures 228
Historical figures 228
9. Dante and classical antiquity 231
Aristotle 231
Vergil/Virgil 233
Virgil, the guide 234
Virgil and the pilgrim 236
Vergilian echoes in the Comedy 237
Virgil s tragic flaw 239
Ovid 241
Lucan 247
Cato, guardian of purgatory 247
Cato, the suicide 247
Cato s opposition to Caesar 248
Cato the pagan 249
Statius 251
Capaneus 252
Ulysses 254
Ulysses/Aeneas 255
Ulysses/Cato 256
Ulysses/Moses and Solomon 257
Ulysses/Dante 258
Contents xi
10. The poet of the Comedy 261
Versification 262
The lexis of the Comedy 264
Latinisms 266
Dialects 267
Gallicisms and Provencalisms 268
Neologisms 269
Rhyme 269
Rhymes in the Comedy 271
Syntax and terzina unit (tercet) 273
Enjambment 275
Syntax, alliteration, and chiasmus 277
Reduplkatio and anaphora 278
Imagery and figures of speech 280
Metonymy and metaphor 280
Simile 286
The voyage of the Argonauts 293
Dante the prophet 295
Imagery in Paradiso 297
Appendix: The Comedy and the Bible 299
Biblical citations 300
Modified citations of the Bible and liturgy 301
The Bible and Dante s prophetic mode 302
Sermo humilis 305
11. Dante and his contemporary world 309
Emergence of Florence as a republic 310
Frederick II and the papacy 310
Guelfs and Ghibellines 311
Regime of the primo popolo (1250 60) 312
The rout at Montaperti (1260) 312
The triumph of Guelf Florence 313
Florence in Dante s time (1265 1302) 314
The priorate 31s
The Ordinamenti di giustizia (1293) 316
Dante s political career 316
Pope Celestine V (1294) 317
Pope Boniface VIII (1294 1303) 317
Dante elected prior (1300) 318
Exile (1302 21) 319
Papal opposition to the empire 320
Emperor Henry VII (1308 13) 321
The world deprived of both suns 322
The poet s condemnation of Florence 323
Dante and the Church 328
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Evangelical poverty 328
Beatrice vs. theologians and unworthy preachers 331
Church corruption and renewal 331
Dante s orthodoxy 332
Dante s political vision in the Comedy 334
12. Dante s Latin epistles, Questio de aqua et terra, and eclogues 337
The Latin epistles 337
Epistle 1 338
Epistle 2 338
Epistle 3 338
Epistle 4 339
Epistle 5 340
Epistle 6 341
Epistle 7 342
Epistles 8 10 343
Epistle 11 343
Epistle 12 344
Epistle 13 345
Questio de aqua et terra 348
The eclogues 350
Dante s First Eclogue 351
Del Virgilio s reply and Dante s Second Eclogue 351
Glossary 353
Notes 357
Works Cited 411
Index of Names and Notable Matters 435
Index of Passages from Dante s Works 451
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