Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies: Volume 5, Issue 1
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Publication Publication The Global Popularity of Dante's 'Divina Commedia': Translations, Libraries, Wikipedia(2022-12-13) Blakesley, JacobStudies of the translation and reception history of Dante’s Divina Commedia have rarely included the use of either distant reading (aka large-scale literary analysis) or Digital Humanities, much less both. However, using both these methods allows innovative research questions to be pursued and answered with regard to Dante’s fortuna, as I have shown in four previous articles regarding Dante and other writers. This contribution draws on three new datasets that I constructed myself in order to study canons of world literature, using Dante’s Divine Comedy as a case study: a comprehensive catalogue of all the worldwide complete translations of the Commedia (or single canticles such as Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso), published from the 16th century until 2021; readership data pertaining to all the Wikipedia entries dedicated to Dante’s biographical entry and his works; and Commedia holdings, in both Italian and translation, in all national libraries with online searchable catalogues. The aim is to see where Dante’s text is translated and circulates the most, and whether his work is globally popular.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 Luca Carlo Rossi. 'L’uovo di Dante. Aneddoti per la costruzione di un mito.' Rome: Carocci, 2021.(2022-12-13) Coluzzi, FedericaPublication Publication After Dante(2022-12-13) Anderson, NathaliePublication Publication Dante's 'Lonza': A Dissection of the Wild Cat in Canto I(2022-12-13) Vázquez, PatriciaEven though every English translation of the Inferno describes the wild cat that impedes Dante’s way up the mountain of Salvation in Canto I as a leopard, there is no direct correlation between the leopard we know and the Italian term Dante uses, 'una lonza.' A glance at Singleton's notes on the "lonza" reveals how the term’s ambiguity has resulted in little agreement about the cat’s gender, whether it was a live, breathing animal or merely mythical. This paper examines a variety of sources from art history to zoology to argue that the wild cat Dante was trying to conjure up was a cheetah rather than a leopard. There is evidently a long history of confusing the pair, which we’ll see from studying the illuminated manuscripts in medieval bestiaries, the sketchbooks by Italian artists who drew these animals from life, and the lynchpin, a painting by Titian. What follows is a dissection of Dante’s lonza in three parts: its etymology, zoology and allegory.Publication 'Dante's Library': Reconstructing Dante's Material World(2022-12-13) Granacki, Alyssa M.Publication George Corbett. 'Dante’s Christian Ethics. Purgatory and its moral contexts.' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.(2022-12-13) De Robertis, Tommaso