Sparks and seeds : medieval literature and its afterlife : essays in honor of John Freccero

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Preface -- Introduction / Giuseppe Mazzotta -- Conversion to the text's terms: processes of signification in Bonaventure's Itinerarium mentis in deum / Dennis Costa -- Spirits of love: subjectivity, gender and optics in the lyrics of Guido Cavalcanti / Dana E. Stewart -- On failing one's teachers: Dante, Virgil, and the ironies of instruction / John Kleiner -- Lectura Dantis: Inferno 30 / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- The love that moves the sun and other stars in Dante's hell / James Nohrnberg -- "Our bodies, our selves": The body in the Commedia / Rachel Jacoff -- Telling time in purgatory / Alison Cornish -- Dante's aesthetics of being / Warren Ginsberg -- "Are you here?": surprise in the Commedia / Peter S. Hawkins -- Solomon's song in the Divine Comedy / Marguerite Chiarenza -- Tasso as Ulysses / Walter Stephens -- The debate between arms and letters in the Gerusalemme Liberata / David Quint -- Representing invention: the telescope as news / Eileen Reeves -- Fatti maschii, parole femine: manly deeds, womanly words / Patricia Parker -- Desire, displacement, digression: rhetorical ramification in Giorgio Manganelli's Amore and Tutti gli errori / Rebecca West -- The Italian body politic is a woman: feminized national identity in postwar Italian film / Millicent Marcus.