Dante the Lyric and Ethical Poet: Dante Lirico E Etico

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"This book presents the proceedings of the fifth meeting of the International Dante Seminar. As with previous volumes, the proceedings also include a carefully edited account of the extensive discussions which followed the presentations. The papers, given by some of the leading international scholars of the poet - from Italy, the UK and the USA - address four major topics of particular concern to present-day Dante studies: Dante as a lyric poet; Dante as an ethical poet; Dante and the Eclogues; and Dante in nineteenth-century Britain. These topics reflect both areas which are currently the subject of heated critical debate (several editions of the lyric poems are in preparation, and the ethical dimension of Dantes works is very much under discussion) and areas which are long overdue a reassessment (Dantes remarkable revival of Latin pastoral poetry, and the extraordinary British contribution to Dante studies in the nineteenth century) As this set of conference proceedings makes clear, in Dante and in his legacy, ethics and poetry are inseparable. The contributors include Paola Allegretti, Michael Caesar, Paolo Falzone, Manuele Gragnolati, Claudio Giunta, Claire Honess, Robin Kirkpatrick, John Lindon, Lino Pertile, Justin Steinberg, Claudia Villa, and Diego Zancani." Part I Dante the Ethical Poet -- chapter 1 Salus, venus, virtus. Poetica, politica ed etica tra il De vulgari eloquentia e la Commedia n n 1 / Claire E. Honess -- chapter 2 Desiderio naturale, nobiltà dell'anima e grazia divina nel IV trattato del Convivio / Paolo Falzone -- chapter 3 'E lascia pur grattar.': Language, Narrative and Ethics in the Commedia / Robin Kirkpatrick -- part II Dante the Lyric Poet -- chapter 4 Trasformazioni e assenze: la performance della Vita nova e le figure di Dante e Cavalcanti / Manuele Gragnolati -- chapter 5 Dante's First Dream between Reception and Allegory: The Response to Dante da Maiano in the Vita nova / Justin Steinberg -- chapter 6 Dante: l'amore come destino / Claudio Giunta -- part III Dante and the Eclogues -- chapter 7 Il problema dello stile umile (e il riso di Dante) / Claudia Villa -- chapter 8 Le Egloghe di Dante e l'antro di Polifemo n 1 / Lino Pertile -- chapter 9 Dante 'Tityrus annosus' (Egloghe, IV. 12) / Paola Allegretti -- part IV The Nineteenth-Century Revival -- chapter 10 Dante, Leopardi and The City of Dreadful Night / Michael Caesar -- chapter 11 Notes on the British Contribution to the Nineteenth-Century Rise of Dante Studies: Edward Moore and the Text of the Commedia / John Lindan.