Bibliotheca Dantesca is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to all tendencies in Dante studies. The annual volumes of the journal will host both essays related to traditional areas of study and contributions linked to research developed in recent decades, such as digital humanities, material culture, Mediterranean studies, history of emotions, gender studies, etc. The aim of the journal is to offer the scholarly world a series of interdisciplinary reflections that can contribute to the development of all aspects of contemporary work on Dante, particularly in view of the fast-approaching seventh centenary of the poet’s death.
Current Volume: Volume 1 (2018) Dante and Music
This inaugural issue of Bibliotheca Dantesca features articles derived from a conference on "Dante and Music" that was held at the University of Pennsylvania on November 5-6, 2015, to commemorate the 750th anniversary of the poet's birth. The essays in this collection explore both the presence of music in Dante's works and the reception of his poetry in musical repertoires throughout the centuries.
With the support of the Penn Libraries, Bibliotheca Dantesca represents the result of a productive collaboration between the students of Penn’s Italian Studies doctoral program, who were its first promoters, the faculty in the program, and the Center for Italian Studies. The journal's purpose is to produce scholarship that investigates the work of Dante and its reception in a widely interdisciplinary perspective. At Penn, the Italian Studies program and the Center actively collaborate in organizing events devoted to Dante, such as the Imelde Della Valle Lectures, Lecturae Dantis, talks, conferences, concerts, films, and theatrical performances. The Department of Romance Languages, of which the Italian Studies program is a section, regularly offers courses devoted to Dante and his world, in conjunction with the interdisciplinary program in Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Bibliotheca Dantesca thus consolidates the strong commitment of Penn and its Italian Studies community to Dante scholarship in a timely way, by starting its publication celebrating Dante's birth, and also looking ahead to the 2021 anniversary of his death.
Eva Del Soldato and Mauro Calcagno
Articles
“CANZONE... T’HO ALLEVATO PER FIGLIUOLA D’AMORE”: THREE SONGS OF LOVE IN DANTE’S ‘VITA NUOVA’
Alfred R. Crudale
IRONIZING UGOLINO
David Heinsen
STASIS AND CARNAL SONG: DANTE’S MEDUSA AND THE SIREN
Fiorentina Russo
“TEMPRANDO COL DOLCE L’ACERBO”: INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL POLYPHONY IN THE ‘COMMEDIA’
Francesco Ciabattoni
SINGING FOR DANTE IN ‘PURGATORIO’ 30–31
Helena Phillips-Robins
“DENTRO A LA DANZA DE LE QUATTRO BELLE” (PURG. 31.104): DANCE IN DANTE’S ‘COMMEDIA’
Madison U. Sowell
NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSICAL ADAPTATIONS OF DANTE’S ‘COMMEDIA’: ‘DANTE’S GREATEST HITS’
Maria Ann Roglieri
DANTE, LISZT, AND THE ALIENATED AGONY OF HELL
Tekla Babyak
FROM CASELLA TO CACCIAGUIDA: A MUSICAL PROGRESSION TOWARD INNOCENCE
Thomas E. Peterson
Director-in-Chief
Kevin Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania
Co-Directors
Eva Del Soldato, University of Pennsylvania
Mauro Calcagno, University of Pennsylvania
Editor of vol. 1
Vanessa Di Maggio, University of Pennsylvania (vanessad@sas.upenn.edu)
Managing Editors
Natale Vacalebre, University of Pennsylvania (natalev@sas.upenn.edu)
Mario Sassi, University of Pennsylvania (marsassi@sas.upenn.edu)
Co-Editors
Juliette Bellacosa, University of Pennsylvania (jbellaco@sas.upenn.edu)
Tommaso De Robertis, University of Pennsylvania (derob@sas.upenn.edu)
Giulio Genovese, University of Pennsylvania (giuliog@sas.upenn.edu)
Nathalie Lacarriere, University of Pennsylvania (nlacar@sas.upenn.edu)