Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies: Volume 5, Issue 1
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Publication Scemare, or Approaching “Virgillessness”(2022-12-13) Wiles, JonnyAny examination of the phenomenon of absence in the Commedia must account for a crucial linguistic issue: though they are amply attested in the Commedia’s sources, the words assenza, assente, and their derivatives are themselves conspicuously absent from the poem’s lexicon. Absence experiences are expressed in the poem partly through imagery and circumlocution, but also through a constellation of individual words which invoke experiences of absence without naming absence as such. One particularly suggestive word operating within this language of omission is the verb scemare. With a focus on Purgatorio 30, in this paper, I discuss the importance of scemare to Dante’s lexicon of exclusion, and the ways in which it shapes our experience and understanding of absence in the Commedia more broadly.Publication Publication Data Visualization as a Tool to Experience the Legacy of Dante's Divine Comedy and its Influence on the Cultural Heritage(2022-12-13) Bonera, Matteo; Bardazzi, AnnaPublication Introduction: Projects(2022-12-13) Coggeshall, Elizabeth; Kumar, AkashPublication Foul Tales, Public Knowledge: Bringing Dante's 'Divine Comedy' to Wikipedia(2022-12-13) Ingallinella, LauraThis contribution discusses WikiDante, a set of best practices for the implementation of content related to the Divine Comedy on Wikipedia, chiefly designed for (yet not limited to) the undergraduate classroom. Developed as a digital project involving undergraduate students in partnership with Wiki Education, WikiDante consisted of two iterations, the first of which created or revised entries on the women from Dante’s recent history mentioned in the poem. For two decades, scholars have treated Wikipedia as the proverbial elephant in the room—shunned, ignored, or shamefully used only in lack of more anointed tools. This essay explores the benefits of using Wikipedia for digital scholarly activism in Dante Studies, outlining the challenges and educational outcomes of organizing editing campaigns on Wikipedia focusing on Dante and his work. After discussing the project’s components, the essay indicates future venues for the applicability of this framework by scholars and educators interested in digital public scholarship and knowledge equity.Publication The Poetics of 'Gentilezza' in the 'Fiore' and the Emergence of Dante's Political Vision Before the Exile(2022-12-13) Clines, Robert JThis essay investigates the political and literary culture of late Duecento Florence as well as the entangled rather than mutually exclusive nature of Dante’s pre- and post-exile political and literary visions. I read Dante’s political vision against the Fiore, a Tuscan form of the medieval French epic Roman de la Rose that appeared in Italy before 1290. Pervasive in Dante’s politics, poetics, and the cultural milieux in which the Fiore appeared are the rejection of French/Provençal cultural dominance, Franco-Angevin political influence in Italy, and mendicants as morally bankrupt threats to civil society. In turn, this essay argues that the Fiore and Dante’s participation in the literary culture that produced it were the consequence of the geopolitical landscape of the late Duecento, which paved the way for his exile and subsequent rancor that pervaded his later works.Publication Intertextuality in Dante's 'Commedia': Hypermedia Dante Network(2022-12-13) Tomazzoli, GaiaPublication Nicolò Crisafi. 'Dante’s Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the "Commedia."' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.(2022-12-13) Cuadrado, AlejandroPublication