Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Literature, Doctrine, Reality

Zygmunt G. Barański

Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio
Literature, Doctrine, Reality

Zygmunt G. Barański

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Selected Essays 6

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17 February 2020 • 658pp

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Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, the three crowns of Italian literature, dealt with literature, doctrine, and reality in distinct, yet also overlapping, ways. In this major collection of nineteen essays, Barański explores how they endeavoured to create and establish their authority and identity as writers, while developing new ideas about literature and its status in the world, and, especially in Dante’s case, forging and legitimating new forms of writing. Each treated other authors, such as Guido Cavalcanti, or intellectuals, such as Epicurus, polemically and selectively as foils to their own self-portraits. Petrarch and Boccaccio had also to contend with Dante, and his extraordinary success as a ‘modern’ vernacular authority, though they employed very different strategies for doing so. Barański's close attention to the medieval context uniting these greatest of medieval writers is complemented by an equally close attention to the scholarly tradition on the questions addressed. To be a historian of literature also means being a historian of one’s subject.

Zygmunt G. Barański is Serena Professor of Italian Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and Notre Dame Professor of Dante & Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has published extensively on Dante, on medieval Italian literature, on Dante’s fourteenth- and twentieth-century reception, and on twentieth-century Italian literature, film, and culture. For many years he was senior editor of The Italianist, and currently holds the same position with Le tre corone.

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‘Many will be familiar with Barański’s work, his distinctive voice and ability to interrogate some of the thorniest issues relating to Dante, medieval poetics and doctrine; but to have this voice sustained in one single volume is to witness a quite remarkable academic career and distinctive engagement with Dante.’ — Daragh O’Connell, Annali d'Italianistica 39, 2021, 414
‘A majestic work that offers an insightful examination of medieval authors while also serving as an overview of Barański’s career as one of the most distinguished experts on Dante of the last decades.’ — Martina Franzini, Heliotropia 20, 2023

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ix-x	List of Sources Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.3	Cite
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xi-xiv	Abbreviations and Editions Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.4	Cite
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1-18	Introduction ‘A Contrariness in It’: Seven ‘Fragmented’ Reflections Zyg Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.5	Cite
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21-44	Chapter 1 On Dante’s Trail: From 1295 To 2018 Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.6	Cite
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45-81	Chapter 2 Dante and Doctrine (and Theology) Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.7	Cite
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82-134	Chapter 3 (un)orthodox Dante Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.8	Cite
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135-162	Chapter 4 ‘Reflecting’ On the Divine and On the Human: Paradiso Xxii Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.9	Cite
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163-206	Chapter 5 ‘Affectivity’ and Theology: the Representation of Beatitude in Dante’s Paradiso Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.10	Cite
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209-256	Chapter 6 ‘Tres Enim Sunt Manerie Dicendi…’: Some Observations On Medieval Literature, ‘Genre’, and Dante Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.11	Cite
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257-293	Chapter 7 ‘Primo Tra Cotanto Senno’: Dante and the Latin Comic Tradition Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.12	Cite
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294-322	Chapter 8 the Poetics of Metre: Terza Rima, ‘Canto’, ‘Canzon’, ‘Cantica’ Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.13	Cite
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325-346	Chapter 9 Purgatorio Xxv: Creating Poetic Bodies Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.14	Cite
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347-392	Chapter 10 Petrarch, Dante, Cavalcanti Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.15	Cite
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393-416	Chapter 11 ‘Io Mi Rivolgo Indietro A Ciascun Passo’ (rvf 15. 1): Petrarch, the Fabula of Eurydice and Orpheus, and the Structure of the Canzoniere Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.16	Cite
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417-440	Chapter 12 ‘Weeping’ and ‘Singing’ With Orpheus (and With Dante): Emotional and Poetic Structures in Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta 281–90 Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.17	Cite
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443-469	Chapter 13 Guido Cavalcanti and His First Readers Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.18	Cite
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470-487	Chapter 14 the Ethics of Ignorance: Petrarch’s Epicurus and Averroes and the Structures of De Sui Ipsius Et Multorum Ignorantia Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.19	Cite
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488-527	Chapter 15 ‘Alquanto Tenea Della Oppinione Degli Epicuri’: the Auctoritas of Boccaccio’s Cavalcanti (and Dante) Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.20	Cite
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528-540	Chapter 16 Boccaccio and Epicurus: From Epy To Tito and Gisippo Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.21	Cite
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543-576	Chapter 17 Guido Cavalcanti Among the Cruces of Inferno Ix-Xi, Or Dante and the History of Reason Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.22	Cite
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577-602	Chapter 18 ‘E Cominciare Stormo’: Notes On Dante’s Sieges Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.23	Cite
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603-614	Chapter 19 Scatology and Obscenity in Dante Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.24	Cite
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615-624	List of Publications Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.25	Cite
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625-636	General Index Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.26	Cite
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637-642	Index of References To Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.27	Cite
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643-644	Index of Manuscripts Zygmunt G. Barański doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx75.28	Cite
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