Call for Creative Contributions: New deadline for submissions on April 4! What happens when 21st-century people from diverse linguistic, cultural, and socio-economic communities confront and creatively reinterpret the emotional landscape of the opening scene of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, one of the most celebrated works of medieval times and world literature? The exhibition How does it feel? Dante’s Emotions […]
Author archives: Elisa Brilli
ISCAD Annotated Bibliographies
ISCAD Annotated Bibliographies provide a research and teaching tool which currently does not exist. Without aiming at being exhaustive, these annotated bibliographies offer a commented selection of bibliographical records, as well as a quick overview of the state of the literature about selected critical categories in Dante studies. As such, they constitute a helpful starting point when […]
Authorship
ISCAD ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: AUTHORSHIP S. Gaspari (Toronto, Italian Studies) Last update: February 2019 Download PDF Main References to Authorship in Dante’s Works De vulgari eloquentia II.viii.4: Circa hoc considerandum est quod cantio dupliciter accipi potest. Uno modo, secundum quod fabricatur ab autore suo; et sic est actio; et secundum istum modum Virgilius, primo Eneidorum, dicit […]
Readership, Readers and Reading
ISCAD ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: READERSHIP, READERS AND READING E. Plesnik (Toronto, CMS) Last update: February 2019 Download PDF Main References to Reading and Readers in Dante’s Works Commedia: Addresses to the Reader Gmelin (1951), Auerbach (1953) and Spitzer (1955) identify nineteen to twenty-one passages in the Commedia in which Dante interrupts his narrative with a […]
Contrapasso
ISCAD ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: CONTRAPASSO L. Faibisoff (Toronto, CMS) Last update: May 1st, 2019 Download PDF Main References to Contrapasso in Dante’s Works (and sources) Thomas Aquinas (1265-74). “Videtur quod iustum sit simpliciter idem quod contrapassum. Judicium enim divinum est simplicter justum. Sed haec est forma divini iudicii ut secundum quod aliquis fecit patiatur, […]