Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies: Volume 2, Issue 1
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Publication Filippo Andrei. 'Boccaccio the Philosopher. An Epistemology of the Decameron.' Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.(2019-12-12) De Robertis, TommasoPublication Publication Reviews Full(2019-12-12) Editor, Bibliotheca DantescaPublication Lina Bolzoni. 'Una meravigliosa solitudine. L’arte di leggere nell’Europa moderna.' Turin: Einaudi, 2019.(2019-12-12) De Robertis, TommasoPublication Publication “A SIMPLE SUCKING OF THE TEETH:” BECKETT, DANTE AND THE “RISUS PURUS”(2019-12-12) Annett, ScottSamuel Beckett’s “Dante postcards” record the first three smiles to be found in the Purgatorio. In doing so, Becket draws attention to a gesture that has recently received significant critical attention within Dante studies. These postcards suggest Beckett’s alertness to the complexity of face to face encounters within the Commedia, while also providing an opportunity to consider the extent to which facial expressions are significant within Beckett’s own writing. In this essay, I argue that the postcards can be read alongside Beckett’s early novels, in particular, Murphy (English 1938, French 1947) and Watt (English 1953, French 1968). Moreover, I explore the extent to which Beckett's readings of Dante are multifaceted in that they demonstrate the extent to which he was both inspired by, and yet also at odds with, his Italian predecessor.Publication Luca Carlo Rossi. 'Studi su Benvenuto da Imola.' Florence: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2018.(2019-12-12) Sassi, MarioPublication “LA GUERRA DE LA PIETATE:” DANTE’S DEFINITION OF MORAL SUBJECT IN THE ‘INFERNO’(2019-12-12) Rendall, ThomasAlthough a pun on the word pietà has been widely recognized in Virgil’s rebuke to Dante for pitying the diviners and sorcerers in Inferno20, the possibility of a double meaning for the word in the poem’s statement of the subject in Canto 2 has generally been ignored. That a pun is present, however, is supported by the source for this passage in the meeting between the hero and his father in Book 6 of the Aeneid—a context in which the word’s Latin root meaning “filial piety” is clearly implied. By the Early Middle Ages “duty to the father” had come to mean “duty to the Father,” and the pity/piety opposition expressed by the pun in Canto 2 is Dante’s definition of the moral subject of the Inferno. A trying struggle for both pilgrim and reader, the “guerra de la pietate” extends from varying degrees of theologically impermissible compassion for the souls in hell all the way to questioning the justice of God’s damnation of the virtuous pagans in the heights of heaven.
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