American Dante Bibliography for 2012

Richard Lansing

This bibliography is intended to include all publications relating to Dante (books, articles, translations, reviews) written by North American writers or published in North America in 2011, as well as reviews of books from elsewhere published in the United States and Canada.

 

Translations

Alighieri, Dante. Inferno. Translated by Mary Jo Bang. Minneapolis, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 2012.

Alighieri, DanteVita Nova. Translated with notes and an introduction by Andrew Frisardi. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Press, 2012.

 

Books

Boccaccio in America. Edited by Elsa Filosa and Michael Papio. Ravenna: Longo, 2012.

Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century: Nationality, Identity, and Appropriation. Edited by Aida Audeh and Nick Havely. New York: Oxford Press, 2012.

De Benedictis, Raffaele. Wordly Wise: The Semiotics of Discourse in Dante’s Commedia. New York: Peter Lang, 2012.

Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages. Edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Tristin Kay, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca Southerden. London: Maney, 2012.

Lombardi, Elena. The Wings of the Doves: Love and Desire in Dante and Medieval Culture. Montreal: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2012.

Luzzi, Joseph. Il romanticismo italiano e l’Europa: Fantasia e realtà nell’immaginario occidentale. Translated by Mattia Acetoso. Rome: Carocci, 2012. 

Tra amici: Essays in Honor of Giuseppe Mazzotta.” Special issue, MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012). 

 

Studies

Ardizzone, Maria Luisa. “The ‘Vicinia’ and Its Role in Dante’s Political Thought.” Dante Studies 130 (2012): 163–82.

Arduini, Beatrice. “Il ruolo di Boccaccio e di Marsilio Ficino nella tradizione del Convivio di Dante.” In Filosa and Papio, Boccaccio in America, 95–104.

Arduini, Beatrice. Reading Dante in Nineteenth–Century Italy.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 70–88.

Ascoli, Albert Russell. “The Way of the Worlds: Learning from Mazzotta.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 264–67.

Audeh, Aida. “Dufau’s La Mort d’Ugolin: Dante, Nationalism, and French Art, c. 1800.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 141–63.

Barolini, Teodolinda. “Sociology of the ‘Brigata’: Gendered Groups in Dante, Forese, Folgore, Boccaccio—From ‘Guido, i’ vorrei’ to Griselda.” Italian Studies 67, no. 1 (2012): 4–22.

Barsella, Susanna. “Angels and Creation in Paradiso 29.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 189–98.

Boccassini, Daniela. “‘L’ora che volge il disio’: Comparative Hermeneutics of Desire in Dante and ‘Attār.” In Gragnolati, Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages, 29–44.

Boli, Todd. “Boccaccio’s Biography, Dante’s Biography, and How They Intersected.” In Filosa and Papio, Boccaccio in America, 113–20.

Braida, Antonella. “Dante and the Creation of the poeta vate in Nineteenth-Century Italy.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 51–69.

Caesar, Michael and Nick Havely. “Politics and Performance: Gustavo Modena’s dantate.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 111–40.

Carney, Guy. “Poetry, Theft, and Divine Creation in Inferno XXIV–XXV.” Comitatus 43 (2012): 57–77.

Carolan, Mary Ann McDonald. “Counting by Five: A Literary Reading of Inferno.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 138–45.

Casagrande, Gino. “Due note a Paradiso XIII. ‘E se al “surse” drizzi li occhi chiari’ (106) ‘Acciò che re sufficïente fosse’ (96).” Studi Danteschi 77 (2012): 235–247.

Cherchi, Paolo. “Joanot Martorell, Ausiàs March e la Vita nova.” L’Alighieri 40 (2012): 109–14.

Di Fonzo, Claudia. “Dante secondo Santagata: non autore, non personaggio, ma arcipersonaggio consapevole e fuori dal coro.” Forum Italicum 46, no. 1 (2012): 178–87.

Dupont, Christian Y. Charles Eliot Norton and the Rationale for American Dante Studies.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 248–65.

Echevarría, Roberto González. “Dante in Alejo Carpentier.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 216–24.

Elsky, Martin. “T. S. Eliot and the Play of Belief: Reading Dante in the Aftermath of World War I.” Sun Yat–sen Journal of Humanities 33 (2012): 1–20.

Findley III, Carl Eugene. “Perfecting Adam: The Perils of Innocence in the Modern Novel.” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2011. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 72.9 (March 2012): 3258.

Fosca, Nicola. “Beatitudine terrena e Paradiso Terrestre.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, January 17, 2012.

Fosca, Nicola. “Par. XXVIII.109–110: ‘… si fonda l’essere beato nell’atto che vede.’” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, August 15, 2012.

Franke, William. “Dante’s Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Prophetic Voice and Vision in the Malebolge (Inferno XVIII–XXIII).” Philosophy and Literature 36, no. 1 (2012): 111–121.

Franke, William. “The Place of the Proper Name in the Topographies of the Paradiso.” Speculum 87, no. 4 (2012): 1089–1124.

Galati, Carmelo Antonio. “Hallowed Ground: Dante’s Commedia in the New Millennium.” PhD diss., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2011. Dissertation Abstracts International 73.5 (November 2012).

Ginsberg, Warren. “Hell’s Borderlands: A Preliminary Cartography.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 146–54.

Goddard, Victoria Emma Clare. “Poetry and Philosophy in Boethius and Dante.” PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2011. Dissertation Abstracts International 73.6 (December 2012).

Grossvogel, Steven. “Justinian’s jus and justificatio in Paradiso 6.10–27.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 130–37.

Havely, Nick.Epilogue (Dante and Early Italian Cinema): The 1911 Milano–Films Inferno and Italian Nationalism.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 353–71.

Hawkins, Peter. “The Religion of the Mountain: Handling Sin in Dante’s Purgatorio.” In Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture: The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, ed. Richard G. Newhauser and Susan J. Ridyard (Woodbridge, U.K.: York Medieval Press, 2012).

Herzman, Ronald B. “Dante and the Frescoes at Santi Quattro Coronati.” Speculum 87, no. 1 (2012): 95–146.

Hollander, Anne. “The Dress of Thought: Clothing and Nudity in Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Ariosto.” In Exchanging Clothes: Habits of Being 2, editedy by Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz (Minneapolis, Minn: University of Minnesota Press, 2012), 40–57.

Hollander, Robert. “Dante’s Virgil: Giovanni Busnelli Revisited.” In Bollettino Dantesco. Per il settimo centenario 1 (2012): 61–75.

Hollander, Robert. “Il commento al primo canto dell’Inferno.” In “Meminisse iuvat”: Studi in memoria di Violetta de Angelis, ed. Filippo Bognini (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2012), 445–72.

Hollander, Robert. “Inferno III 82–136: How Did Dante Cross the Acheron?” Studi Danteschi 77 (2012): 45–58.

Hollander, Robert. “Inferno V, 138: Francesca’s Confession.” L’Alighieri 40 (2012): 115–119.

Hollander, Robert. “Virgil’s Return (Inferno IV.79–81).” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, November 24, 2012.

Hölter, Eva.Dante’s Long Road to the German Library: Literary Reception from Early Romanticism to the Late Nineteenth Century.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 225–65.

Howard, Lloyd. “Virgil’s Uncertain Authority: Tracking the Linguistic Markers to Inferno X.Letteratura italiana antica 12 (2011): 271–86.

Iglesias, Maria Clara. “Borges y sus tres interpretaciones del canto de Ulises en el Infierno de Dante.” MLN 127, no. 2 (2012): 282–301.

Illiano, Antonio. “Lettura di Inferno IV.” Letteratura italiana antica 12 (2011): 215–60.

Jewiss, Virginia. “Piccarda’s Peace in a German War Cemetery.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 119–29.

Jossa, Stefano. “Politics vs. Literature: The Myth of Dante and the Italian National Identity.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 30–49.

Kay, Tristan. “Desire, Subjectivity, and Lyric Poetry in Dante’s Convivio and Commedia.” In Gragnolati, Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages, 164–84.

Kay, Tristan. “Redefining the ‘matera amorosa’: Dante’s Vita Nova and Guittone’s (anti-) courtly ‘canzoniere.’” The Italianist 29, no. 3 (2009): 369–99.

Kirkham, Victoria. “Contrapasso: The Long Wait to Inferno 28.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 1–12.

Kleinhenz, Christopher. “A Nose for Style: Olfactory Sensitivity in Dante and Boccaccio.” In Filosa and Papio, Boccaccio in America, 79–91.

Kleinhenz, Christopher. “The Bird’s-Eye View: Dante’s Use of Perspective.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 225–32.

Lansing, Richard. “American Dante Bibliography for 2011.” Dante Studies 130 (2012): 235–49.

Lansing, Richard. “Statius’s Homage to Vergil.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 91–98.

Lioi, Anthony. “In a Dark Wood: Dante, Eiseley, and the Ecology of Redemption.” In Artifacts & Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley, edited by Tom Lynch and Suan N. Maher (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2012), 209–34.

Looney, Dennis.Dante Abolitionist and Nationalist in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Cordelia Ray.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 284–304.

Luzzi, Joseph. ‘Founders of Italian Literature’: Dante, Petrarch. and National Identity in Ugo Foscolo.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 13–29.

Maréchaux, Pierre. “Allégories cellulaires dissidentes chez Liszt, lecteur de Dante : au fil des sens cachés d’une Psychomachie musicale.” In Allégorie et symbole: voies de dissidence? De l’Antiquité à la Renaissance, ed. Anne Rolet (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2012).

Mazzocco, Angelo. “Dante, Bruni, and the Issue of The Origin of Mantua.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 257–63.

Moudarres, Andrea. “The Mirror of the Enemy: Boundaries of Power in the Italian Renaissance.” PhD diss., Yale University, 2011. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 72.10 (April 2012): 3762.

Mussio, Thomas E. “The Achilles Simile in Purgatorio 9.” Romance Notes 52, no. 1 (2012): 79–87.

Mussio, Thomas E. “Toward the Innocence of a Child? The Cluster of Child Similes in Paradiso.” Dante Studies 130 (2012): 215–33.

Nichols, Stephen G. “Global Language or Universal Language? From Babel to the Illustrious Vernacular.” Digital Philology 1, no.1 (2012): 73–109. DOI: 10.1353/dph.2012.0004.

Ohmoto–Frederick, Ayumi Clara. “Glimpsing Liminality and the Poetics of Faith: Ethics and the Fantastic Spirit.” PhD diss., Pennsylvania State University, 2009. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 72.9 (March 2012): 3254–3255. “Chapter 2: Beatrice as Rose and Poet in Dante’s Vita Nuova,” 66–109.

Okay, Cüneyd. “The Reception of Dante in Turkey through the Long Nineteenth Century.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 339–52.

Park, Dabney G. “Dante and the Donation of Constantine.” Dante Studies 130 (2012): 67–161.

Pimpinelli, Alberto. “Paradiso 16.34–39: una nota sulla data di nascita di Cacciaguida.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, March 12, 2012.

Pimpinelli, Alberto. “Inf. 1.37: “E ’l sol montava ’n sù con quelle stelle.’Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, January 1, 2012.

Pinski, Robert. “Da Dante.” Letteratura e letterature 6 2012: 15–17.

Raffa, Guy P. “A Beautiful Friendship: Dante and Vergil in the Commedia.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 72–80.

Ransom, Daniel J. “Annotating Purgatorio 5.103–129.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 13–20.

Rea, Roberto. “Psicologia ed etica della paura nel primo canto dell’Inferno: la compunctio timoris.” Dante Studies 130 (2012): 183–206.

Reitman, Nimrod. “Nature Morte: In Search of the Lost Mother in Dante’s De Vulgari Eloquentia.” Parallax 18, no. 3 (2012): 38–55.

Roglieri, Maria Ann. “Appendix (Dante and Nineteenth–Century Music): Listing and Selective Bibliography.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 372–90.

Rosier–Catach, Irène. “Sur Adam et Babel: Dante et Aboulafia.” In En mémoire de Sophie Kessler-Mesguich, edited by Jean Baumgarten, José Costa, Jean-Patrick Guillaume, and Jidith Kogel (Paris: Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2012), 115–140.

Russo, Florence. “Cupiditas, the Medusian Heresy of Farinata.” Italica 89, no. 4 (2012): 442–63.

Ruzicka, David. ‘‘‘Sı` ch’a nulla, fendendo, facea male’: Dante’s Griffin and Florentine Civic Ritual (Purgatorio 29.109–11).” Dante Studies 130 (2012): 1–45.

Saglia, Diego.Dante and British Romantic Women Writers: Writing the Nation, Defining National Culture.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 183–203.

Schildgen, Brenda Deen. “Dante and the Bengali Renaissance.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 323–38.

Schneider, Federico. “Brevi note su musica e dramma nella Commedia.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 110–18.

Schwebel, Leah. ‘‘‘Simile lordura,’ Altra Bolgia: Authorial Conflation in Inferno 26.” Dante Studies 130 (2012): 47–65.

Shoaf, R. Allen. “Delivering Dante: Representations of Reproduction in the Commedia.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 81–90.

Smith, Graham. “‘The Holy Stone where Dante Sat’: Memory and Oblivion.In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 89–110.

Sodi, Rita. “La terza via: Dante and Primo Levi.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 199–203.

Soro, Antonio. “‘O Virgilio, Virgilio, chi è questa?’ (Pg XIX, 28).” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, May 26, 2012.

Southerden, Francesca. “Desire as a Dead Letter: A Reading of Petrarch’s RVF 125.” In Gragnolati, Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages, 185–207.

Stocchi–Perucchio, Donatella. “Federico II e l’ambivalenza del sacro nella Commedia.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 233–44.

Stone, Gregory B. “Dante as Celestial Soul: The Final Verses of Paradiso in the Light of Avicenna’s Metaphysics.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 99–109.

Straub, Julia.Dante’s Beatrice and Victorian Gender Ideology.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 204–24.

Sturges, Robert S. “Desire and Devotion, Vision and Touch in the Vita Nuova.” In Gragnolati, Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages, 101–13.

Talbot, George. “Lord Charlemont’s Dante and Irish Culture: A Whig interpretation of Dante at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 304–22.

Teicher, Craig Morgan. “Interview with Mary Jo Bang.” Literary Review 55, no. 2 (2012): 204–14.

Thomas, James. “Dante and Fabre D’Olivet: The Pilgrim Romeo and the Construction of an Occitan Chant Royal.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 164–83.

Todorovic, Jelena. “Un’operetta del famosissimo poeta, e teologo Dante Alighieri: the editio princeps of the Vita Nova.” Studi Danteschi 77 (2012): 293–310.

Turello, Daniele. Facing and Interfacing: Technology in Jacopone, Dante, Cellini, Vico.” PhD diss., Harvard University, 2011. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 72.9 (March 2012): 3292.

Vannini, Giuglio. “La prima similitudine della Commedia e una fonte romanzesca.” Dante Studies 130 (2012): 207–13.

Verduin, Kathleen.Emerson, Dante, and American Nationalism.” In Audeh and Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century, 266–83.

Waller, Marguerite. “Sexualities and Knowledges in Purgatorio XXVI and Inferno V.” In Gragnolati, Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages, 128–50.

Watt, Mary A. “Cosmopoiesis: Dante, Columbus and Spiritual Imperialism in Stigliani’s Mondo nuovo.” In “Tra amici,” MLN 127, no. 1 [Supplement] (2012): 245–56.

Weidhorn, Manfred. “Dante’s Machiavellian Moment.” Papers on Language and Literature 48, no. 2 (2012): 219–22.

Williams, Rae. “The Ghost of Dante Alighieri in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.” In Text & Presentation, 2011, edited by Kiki Gounaridou (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2012), 34–40.

Zhu, Zhenyu. “Love, Rome, and Dante’s Comic Vision.” PhD diss., Boston University, 2011. Dissertation Abstracts International 73.2 (August 2012).

 

Reviews

Alfie, Fabian. Dante’s Tenzone with Forese Donati: The Reprehension of Vice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Reviewed by:

            Sara E. Díaz, Annali d’Italianistica 30 (2012): 457–59.

Ardissino, Erminia. Tempo liturgico e tempo storico nella Commedia di Dante. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2009. Reviewed by:

            Alison CornishAnnali d’Italianistica 30 (2012): 459–61.

Ascoli, Albert Russell. Dante and the Making of a Modern Author. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Reviewed by:

      Winthrop Wetherbee, Modern Philology 109, no. 4 (2012): E219–E224.

Barsella, Susanna. In the Light of the Angels. Angelology and Cosmology in Dante’s “Divina Commedia.” Florence: Olschki, 2010. Reviewed by:

            Martina Mazzetti, Italianistica 41, no. 2 (2012): 127–129.

Bemrose, Stephen. A New Life of Dante. Revised and updated edition. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2010. Reviewed by:

            Matteo SoranzoAnnali d’Italianistica 30 (2012): 464–66.

Ciabattoni, Francesco. Dante’s Journey to Polyphony. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Reviewed by:

            Bradford Lee Eden, The Medieval Review (2012–02), http://hdl.handle.net/2022/14190.

Dante in Oxford. The Paget Toynbee Lectures. Edited by Tristan Kay, Martin McLaughlin and Michelangelo Zaccarello. Leeds: Legenda, 2011. Reviewed by:

            Francesca GeymonatAnnali d’Italianistica 30 (2012): 485–87.

Dante’s Commedia: Theology as Poetry. Edited by Vittorio Montemaggi and Matthew Treherne. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. Reviewed by:

            Justin D. Brock, Literature and Theology 26.2 (2012): 233–235.

Holmes, Olivia. Dante’s Two Beloveds: Ethics and Erotics in the Divine Comedy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Reviewed by:

            Heather Webb, Modern Philology 110, no. 1 (2012): E17–E19.

Houston, Jason M. Building a Monument to Dante: Boccaccio as Dantista. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Reviewed by:

            Brandon EssaryAnnali d’Italianistica 30 (2012): 482–84.

            Cristina Rios, Forum Italicum 46, no. 1 (2012): 213–15.

La Commedia di Dante Alighieri, con il commento di Robert Hollander. Edited by Simone Marchesi. Florence: Olschki, 2011. Reviewed by:

            Giuseppe Ledda, L’Alighieri 40 (2012): 164–67.

            Giampietro Marconi, Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale 54, no. 1 (2012).

            Steven Botterill, The Medieval Review (2012–04), http://hdl.handle.net/2022/14400.

Looney, Dennis. Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. Reviewed by:

            Heather SottongAnnali d’Italianistica 30 (2012): 489–91.

            Antonio Schiavulli, L’Alighieri 40 (2012): 171–75.

            Patrice D. Rankine, The Medieval Review (2012–03), http://hdl.handle.net/2022/14221.

Marchesi, Simone. Dante & Augustine: Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Reviewed by:

            Giuseppe PrigiottiAnnali d’Italianistica 30 (2012): 491–94.

            Filippo Zanini, L’Alighieri 40 (2012): 168–71.

Metamorphosing Dante: Appropriations, Manipulations, and Rewritings in the Twentieth and Twenty–First Centuries. Edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Fabio Camilletti, and Fabian Lampart, Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2011. Reviewed by:

            Elizabeth Emslie Stevens, Annali d’Italianistica 30 (2012): 480–82.

Petrarch and Dante: Anti–Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition. Edited by Zygmunt G. Barański and Theodore J. Cachey. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. Reviewed by:

            Massimo LolliniAnnali d’Italianistica 30 (2012): 462–64.

Raffa, Guy. The Complete Danteworlds. A Reader’s Guide to the Divine Comedy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Reviewed by:

            Diana Glenn, Forum Italicum 46, no. 1 (2012): 228–30.

Rossini, Antonio. Dante: Il nodo e il volume. Una “lectura” di Paradiso 33. Pisa: Serra, 2011. Reviewed by:

            Daria Verzilli, Esperienze letterarie 36, no. 1 (2012): 137–38.

Russo, Florence. Dante’s Search for the Golden Age. Stony Brook, N.Y.: Forum Italicum, 2011. Reviewed by:

            Maria C. Pastore Passaro, Forum Italicum 46, no. 1 (2012): 212–13.

Santagata, Marco. L’io e il mondo. Una interpretazione di Dante. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2011. Reviewed by:

            Claudia Di Fonzo, Forum Italicum 46, No. 1 (2012): 178–87.

Scott, John A. Perché Dante? Roma: Aracne, 2010. Reviewed by:

            Massimo Seriacopi, Rassegna della letteratura italiana 116 (2012): 96–99.

            Mary Watt, Quaderni d’italianistica 33, no. 1 (2012): 133–34.

Wetherbee, Winthrop. The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. Reviewed by:

            Tobias Foster Gittes, Modern Philology 109, no. 3 (2012): E156–E159.