Dante Beyond Borders
Contexts and Reception

Edited by Nick Havely and Jonathan Katz with Richard Cooper

Italian Perspectives 52

Legenda

17 November 2021  •  412pp

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Dante engaged with an extraordinary range of traditions, disciplines and media, and a variety of speech-communities, cultures, genres and media have received his work: from Spain, France and Germany to North America and the Indian sub-continent; and from medieval multilingualism and early modern humanism to contemporary politics, translations and databases. Those multiple contexts and this prolific afterlife form the subject of the book's 27 essays, which have been commissioned from an international group of scholars to mark the 2021Dante centenary. Contributors include members of several historic Dante Societies: The Dante Society of America, (founded 1881); the Deutsche Dante-Gesellschaft (founded 1865); and the Oxford Dante Society (founded 1876); and their essays present a variety of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to a major transnational poet.

Nick Havely is Emeritus Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of York and is an Honorary Member of the Dante Society of America

Jonathan Katz is a Fellow of St Anne's College and Public Orator at the University of Oxford.

Richard Cooper is Professor of French at the University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow of Brasenose College; and Master of St Benet’s Hall.

Reviews:

  • ‘In its emphasis on global reception history as a quarry through which to discover the multicultural and transnational voice that the Florentine poet endeavoured to realize in his lifetime, Dante beyond Borders can be seen as a full-scale furtherance of the Oxford Handbook’s ideal [of a vision of Dante as liberated from the shackles of interpretative singularity].’ — Peerawat Chiaranunt, Modern Language Review 119.3, July 2024, 367-79 (full text online)

Contents:

1

Three Dante Societies: Historical Notes
Federica Coluzzi

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2

Introduction
Nick Havely

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3

The Eclogues of Giovanni del Virgilio and Dante in Classical Perspective
Jonathan Katz, Matthew Leigh

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4

Measuring the Divine by Geometry and Feeling: Canto 33 of Dante’s Paradiso
Cornelia Klettke

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5

Speaking to the Citizen: Urban Identity, Ethics, and Politics in Tuscan Vernacular Literature and Dante
Johannes Bartuschat

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6

Dante’s Lamentations: The History of Exile and the Politics of Restoration
Matthew S. Kempshall

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7

Transitional Narrative Strategies and the Art of Usury in Dante’s Commedia
Christopher Kleinhenz

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8

Form and Freedom in the Dante Series Prints of Geoff MacEwan
Gervase Rosser

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9

Psalms, Ecclesiastical Chant and Healing in the Purgatorio
Francesco Ciabattoni

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10

‘Che cosa è questa, Amor?’: Cavalcanti and Paradiso in a Ballata by Francesco Landini
Pedro Memelsdorff

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11

Un grido di sì alto suono: Voicing the Commedia
Nick Havely

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12

Who Could Understand the Commedia? Multilingualism, Comprehension and Oral Communication in Medieval Italy
Alessandro Carlucci

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13

Notes on the Presence of Petrarch in the Dante Commentaries of Cristoforo Landino (1481) and Trifone Gabriele (1525-1527)
Simon Gilson

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14

Dante and Islam, Islam and Dante
Valerio Cappozzo

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15

Dante in Spain: Translations, Literary Theory and Canonizations
Paul Carranza

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16

Dante and Death in Late Medieval France
Helen Swift

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17

Illustrating editions of Dante in France before Gustave Doré
Richard Cooper

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18

A Poor Relation among French Dante Scholars: Abel-François Villemain’s Public Classes at the Sorbonne 1828-1830
Franziska Meier

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19

Dante Alighieri and German Romanticism
Alfred Noe

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20

Dante’s Presence in Weimar around 1800
Karl Philipp Ellerbrock

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21

‘How the Young Women Take to It!’: Italian Exiles and Women Readers of Dante in Nineteenth-Century New England
Christian Y. Dupont

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22

‘Why Do You Rend Me?’ Dante and the Pain of James Russell Lowell
Kathleen Verduin

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23

Dante for Mothers
Carol Chiodo

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24

Hidden Presence: Dante’s Commedia in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu
Karlheinz Stierle

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25

Allen Tate’s Flight from Racism: Dante and ‘The Swimmers’
Dennis Looney

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26

’Maintaining Neutrality in a Period of Moral Crisis’: Appropriations of Inferno 3 in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century America’
Kristina M. Olson

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27

Dante Today: Tracking the Global Resonance of the Commedia
Elizabeth Coggeshall

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28

Vernacular Hybridity across Borders: Dante, Amīr Khusrau, Sandow Birk
Akash Kumar

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29

Translating Dante 1966-2019
Peter Hainsworth, David Robey

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Bibliography entry:

Havely, Nick, and Jonathan Katz with Richard Cooper (eds), Dante Beyond Borders: Contexts and Reception, Italian Perspectives, 52 (Legenda, 2021)

First footnote reference: 35 Dante Beyond Borders: Contexts and Reception, ed. by Nick Havely and Jonathan Katz with Richard Cooper, Italian Perspectives, 52 (Legenda, 2021), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Havely and Cooper, p. 47.

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Havely, Nick, and Jonathan Katz with Richard Cooper (eds). 2021. Dante Beyond Borders: Contexts and Reception, Italian Perspectives, 52 (Legenda)

Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Havely and Cooper 2021: 21).

Example footnote reference: 35 Havely and Cooper 2021: 21.

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