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VERTICAL READINGS IN DANTE’S COMEDY


Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy
Volume 2
edited by George Corbett and Heather Webb






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Contents
Acknowledgements
vii
Editions Followed and Abbreviations
ix
Notes on the Contributors
xi
Introduction
George Corbett and Heather Webb
1
12.
Centaurs, Spiders and Saints
Christian Moevs
13
13.
‘Would you Adam and Eve it?’
Robert Wilson
31
14.
The Patterning of History: Poetry, Politics and Adamic Renewal
Catherine M. Keen
55
15.
Dante’s Fatherlands
Simone Marchesi
77
16.
Politics of Desire
Manuele Gragnolati
101
17.
Seductive Lies, Unpalatable Truths, Alter Egos
Tristan Kay
127
18.
Women, War and Wisdom
Anne C. Leone
151
19.
Inside Out
Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja
173
20.
Prediction, Prophecy and Predestination: Eternalising Poetry in the Commedia
Claudia Rossignoli
193
21.
God’s Beloved: From Pitch, Through Script, to Writ
Corinna Salvadori Lonergan
217
22.
Truth, Autobiography and the Poetry of Salvation
Giuseppe Ledda
237
Bibliography
259
Index of Names
281


Acknowledgements
We owe a particular debt to the wonderful community of students, academics and members of the public in Cambridge who have supported the lecture series, ‘Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy ’ (2012–2016). We are also grateful to those who, following the series online, have contributed to this scholarly endeavour and experiment. The project has benefited from broad collaboration from the outset. Each public lecture was preceded by a video-conferenced workshop between the Universities of Cambridge, Leeds and Notre Dame on one of the three cantos in the vertical reading.
There are many people who have helped us during the different stages of the project. We are deeply grateful to you all and we regret that, in these brief acknowledgements, we can only thank some of you by name. Apart from the contributors to this volume, we would like to thank Pierpaolo Antonello, Theodore J. Cachey, Elizabeth Corbett, Mary Corbett, Robert Gordon, Ronald Haynes, Claire Honess, Vittorio Montemaggi, Helena Phillips-Robins, Federica Pich, Katherine Powlesland, Nan Taplin, and Matthew Treherne. Finally, we would like to extend our particular thanks to Simon Gilson for his support, advice and encouragement on this project from its inception.
The Master and Fellows of Trinity College generously hosted the series and offered accommodation to the speakers . The series would not have been possible without the generosity of our sponsors: Trinity College; Selwyn College; the Italian Department, University of Cambridge; the Cambridge Italian Research Network (CIRN); and Keith Sykes.
Open Book Publishers has enabled us to build upon the growing public audience of the video-lectures by making all the volumes free to read online. We would like to thank especially Alessandra Tosi, Mark Mierowsky, Bianca Gualandi, and Corin Throsby for their work in enabling an excellent peer review process, their meticulous comments on the manuscript, and for their help in preparing the bibliography and index.


Editions Followed and Abbreviations
A. Dante
Unless otherwise stated, the editions of Dante’s works may be found in: Le Opere di Dante , ed. by F. Brambilla Ageno, G. Contini, D. De Robertis, G. Gorni, F. Mazzoni, R. Migliorini Fissi, P. V. Mengaldo, G. Petrocchi, E. Pistelli, P. Shaw, and rev. by D. De Robertis and G. Breschi (Florence: Polistampa, 2012).
A.1 Vernacular works
Inf.
Inferno
Purg.
Purgatorio
Par.
Paradiso
Conv.
Convivio
VN.
Vita nova
Rime
Rime
A.2 Latin works
DVE.
De vulgari eloquentia
Mon.
Monarchia
Questio
Questio de aqua et terra
Epist.
Epistole
Ecl .
Egloge
B. English translations
Unless otherwise stated, the translations of Dante are adapted from these readily available and literally translated English editions:
B.1 Vernacular works
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri , ed. and trans. by Robert M. Durling; introduction and notes by Ronald L. Martinez and Robert M. Durling, 3 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996–2011).
The Banquet , trans. with introduction and notes by Christopher Ryan (Saratoga, CA: Anma Libri, 1989).
La Vita Nuova , trans. by Mark Musa (Bloomington, IN and London: Indiana University Press, 1962).
Dante’s Lyric Poetry , trans. by Kenelm Foster and Patrick Boyde, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967).
B.2 Latin works
De vulgari eloquentia , ed. and trans. by Steven Botterill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Monarchy , ed. and trans. by Prue Shaw. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
The Letters of Dante , trans. by Paget J. Toynbee, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966); for the political epistles, however, Dante Alighieri: Four Political Letters , trans. by Claire Honess (London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2007).
Dante and Giovanni del Virgilio , trans. by Philip H. Wicksteed and Edmund G. Gardner (New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1970).
In most instances, the translation [in square brackets] follows the original passage. Where the sense of the original passage is clear from the main text, the original passage (in parentheses) follows the paraphrase. Discussion is always with regard to the passage in the original.


Notes on the Contributors
George Corbett is Lecturer in Theology, Imagination and the Arts in the School of Divinity, University of St A