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, […]

Visibile Parlare

ISCAD ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: VISIBILE PARLARE L. Faibisoff (Toronto, CMS) Last update: May 1st, 2019 Download PDF Main References to Visibile Parlare in Dante’s Works (and sources) Augustine, De doctrina christianaiii.4: “Signorum igitur, quibus inter se homines sua sense communicant, quaedam pertinent ad oculorum sensum […] nam cum innuimus non damus signum nisi oculis […]