American Dante Bibliography for 2008

Richard Lansing

This bibliography is intended to include all publications on Dante (books, articles, translations, reviews) written by North American writers or published in North America in 2008 as well as reviews from foreign sources of books published in the United States and Canada. 

 

Translations

Alighieri, Dante. Paradiso. Translated by Michael Palma. Edited by Giuseppe Mazzotta. Norton Critical Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.

Alighieri, Dante. Paradiso. Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander. New York: Anchor (paperback edition), 2008.

Schneider, Herbert W., Dino Bigongiari, and Anne Paolucci. On World Government (De Monarchia). Middle Village, N.Y.: Griffon, for Bagehot Council, 2008.

 

Books

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

Campbell, C. Jean. The Commonwealth of Nature: Art and Poetic Community in the Age of Dante. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.

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

Luzzi, Joseph. Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds. Lectura Dantis, A Canto-by-Canto Commentary. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2008.

Paolucci, Anne. Dante Revisited: Essays, with a Special Essay on the Occasion of the 700th Anniversary of Dante’s Birth by Dino Bigongiari. Middle Village, N.Y.: Griffon House, 2008.

Ruud, Jay. A Critical Companion to Dante: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts on File, 2008.

Verdicchio, Massimo. Reading Dante Reading: A Postmodern Reading of Dante’s “Commedia.” Edmonton: M. V. Dimic Research Institute, University of Alberta, 2008.

Wetherbee, Winthrop. The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets. William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies 9. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.

 

Studies

Arduini, Beatrice. “Assigning the ‘Pieces’ of Dante’s Convivio: The Compiler’s Notes in the Earliest Extant Copy.” Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation 3.2 (2008): 17–29. 

Armour, Peter. “Canto XXIX: Dante’s Processional Vision.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 329–40.

Balakian, Peter. “Poetry in Hell: Primo Levi and Dante at Auschwitz.” American Poetry Review 37.1 (2008): 3–5.

Barolini, Teodolinda. “‘Canoni assenti’: Opening Statement.” Semicerchio: Rivista di Poesia Comparata 38.1 (2008): 5.

Berg, Steven. “An Introduction to the Reading of Dante: Inferno, Cantos I–VII.” Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 35.2 (2008): 123–51.

Boccassini, Daniela. “I sogni di Aristotele e l’ombra di Dante: Riflessioni sulla fenomenologia della visione nel De ignorantia di Petrarca.” Italica 84.2–3 (2007): 137–61.

Bolognesi, Davide. “‘Et miror si iam non est’: L’Arbor Vitae di Ubertino da Casale nella Commedia.” Dante Studies 126 (2008): 57–88.

Bowen, Kerri A. “Wounds of Love: Dantean Pazienza and the Poetics of Mourning Dido in the Late Middle Ages.” Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 39 (2008): 63–100.

Cambon, Glauco. “Canto XXVII: At the Threshold of Freedom.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 303–10.

Camozzi, Ambrogio. “Una possibile fonte per l’antropofagia cranica, le cagne, le lune e il sogno di Ugolino.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, December 19, 2008.

Casagrande, Gino. “Tessere dantesche: ‘Con tempesta impetuosa e agra’ (‘Inf.’ XXIX 147) ‘L’acerbo’ (‘Inf.’ XXV 18)/’acro’ (‘Purg.’ XXXI 3).” Studi Danteschi 73 (2008): 39–54.

Cavallo, Jo Ann. “Canto XVII: On Revenge.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 178–90.

Cerocchi, Marco. “‘Purgatorio’ II: Il fascino pericoloso dell’ ‘amoroso canto’ di Casella.” Forum Italicum, 42.2 (2008): 243–62.

Cervigni, Dino S. “Canto XXXIII: Beatrice’s Prophecy, Matilda’s Name, and the Pilgrim’s Renewal,” 378–90.

Colish, Marcia L. “Sanza ’nfamia e sanza lodo: Moral Neutrality from Alan of Lille to Dante.” In Marcia L. Colish, The Fathers and Beyond: Church Fathers between Ancient and Medieval Thought, Variorum Collected Studies Series 896 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), essay XVI (originally appeared in Alain de Lille, le Docteur Universel, ed. J-L. Solère, A. Vasiliu, and A. Galonnier [Turnhout: Brepols, 2005]: 263-73).

Colish, Marcia L. “The Virtuous Pagan: Dante and the Christian Tradition.” In Marcia L. Colish, The Fathers and Beyond: Church Fathers between Ancient and Medieval Thought, Variorum Collected Studies Series 896 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), essay XVII (originally appeared in The Unbounded Community: Papers in Christian Ecumenism in Honor of Jaroslav Pelikan, ed. W. Caferro and D. G. Fisher [New York: Garland, 1996]: 43-91).

Conoscenti, Domenico. “Fra mala ventura e fuoco dal cielo: La sogdomia in Decameron V 10 e nelle Esposizioni sopra la Comedia.” Heliotropia: Forum for Boccaccio Research and Interpretation 5.1–2 (2008): http://www.heliotropia.org/.

Di Scipio, Giuseppe. “Dante’s Divine Comedy.” In The Literary Encyclopedia, www.litencyc.com, May 28, 2008.

Domini, John. “Tower, Tree, Candle: Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Triumph of the Fragile.” Southwest Review 93.2 (2008): 269–84.

Dorigo, Ermes. “I codici della Divina Commedia in Friuli.” Dante Studies 126 (2008): 175–224.

Dyrness, William A. “Dante, Bunyan and the Case for a Protestant Aesthetics.” International Journal of Systematic Theology, 10.3 (2008): 285-302.

Einboden, Jeffrey. “Voicing an Islamic Dante: The Problem of Translating the Commedia into Arabic.” Neophilologus 92.1 (2008): 77–91.

Franceschini, Fabrizio. “Paradiso 15.26 ‘se fede merta’: on Virgil’s reliability.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, June 30, 2008.

Franke, William. “Equivocations of ‘Metaphysics’: A Debate with Christian Moevs’s The Metaphysics of Dante’s Comedy.” Philosophy and Theology 20.1–2 (2008): 29–52.

Fugelso, Karl. “Mural Morality: Manipulating Walls to Define Politics in Commedia Miniatures.” Dante Studies 126 (2008): 109–41.

Gaudenzi, Cosetta. “Dante’s Introduction to the United States as Investigated in Matthew Pearl’s The Dante Club.” Italian Culture 26 (2008): 85–103.

Gilson, Simon. “Historicism, Philology and the Text: An Interview with Teodolinda Barolini.” Italian Studies 63.1 (2008): 141–52.

Gmellin, Hermann. “Canto X: The Art of God.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 95–102.

Hayton, Heather Richardson. “Reading the Past in Medieval Literature.” Comparative Literature Studies 45.2 (2008): 247–52.

Hawkins, Peter. “Bottom of the Universe: Dante and Evil.” In Dante in Oxford: the Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995–2005, edited by Martin McLaughlin and Michelangelo Zaccarello (London: Legenda, 2008).

Hayton, Heather Richardson. “The Judaic Other in Dante, the Gawain Poet, and Chaucer.” Comparative Literature Studies 45.2 (2008): 247–52.

Herzman, Ronald B. “Attica Educations: Dante in Exile.” PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123.3 (2008): 697–701.

Hollander, Robert. “Dante’s (and Boccaccio’s) bella scola and Geoffrey Chaucer’s: The Envoy of the Troilus.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, March 23, 2008.

Hollander, Robert. “Canto II: The New Song and the Old.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 11–20.

Hollander, Robert. “Dante’s Quarrel with His Own Convivio (Again).” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, July 9, 2008.

Hollander, Robert. “Dante’s Reluctant Allegiance to St. Augustine in the Commedia.” L’Alighieri: Rassegna Bibliografica Dantesca 49, n.s., 32 (2008): 5–15.

Hollander, Robert. “Paradiso XXVII 136–38 and the enigmatic ‘bella figlia’ [del sole?].” Letteratura italiana antica 8 (2008): 219–22.

Hollander, Robert. “The Epistle to Cangrande and Albert Ascoli’s Recent Book on Dante.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, August 12, 2008.

Holmes, Olivia. “The Consolation of Beatrice and Dante’s Dream of the Siren as Vilification Cure.” In The Erotics of Consolation: Desire and Distance in the Late Middle Ages, edited by Catherine Leglu and Stephen J. Milner, 61–78. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Houston, Jason M. “‘Maraviglierannosi molti’: Boccaccio’s Editio of the Vita Nova. Dante Studies 126 (2008): 89–107.

Jacoff, Rachel. “Canto XXX: At the Summit of Purgatory.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 341­–52.

Kelemen, Jànos. “Canto XII: Eyes Down.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 119–28.

Kirkham, Victoria. “Canto XXVIII: Watching Matilda.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 311–28.

Kirkpatrick, Robin. “Canto III: The Sheepfold of Excommunicates.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 21–38.

Kleinhenz, Christopher. “Canto XXII: Virgil and Statius Discourse.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 236–51.

Kriesel, James C. “Favole, Parabole, Istorie: The Genealogy of Boccaccio’s Theory of Allegory.” PhD diss., University of Notre Dame, 2008. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 69.4 (2008): 1356.

Lansing, Richard. “American Dante Bibliography for 2007.” Dante Studies 126 (2008): 225–31.

Levenstein, Jessica. “Resurrecting Ovid’s Pierides: Dante’s Invocation to Calliope in Purgatorio 1.7–12.” Dante Studies 126 (2008): 1–19.

Linstrum, Erik. “The Critic in Exile: Rediscovering Erich Auerbach.” Yale Review 96.1 (2008): 149–57.

Martinez, Ronald L. “‘Anastasio Papa guardo’ (“Inferno” 11.8–9): The Descent into Hell, and Dante’s Heretics.” Mediaevalia 29.2 (2008): 15–30.

Martinez, Ronald. “Canto XXV: Statius’s Marvelous Connection of Things.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 277–87.

McDowell, Nicholas. “Dante and the Distraction of Lyric in Milton’s ‘To My Friend Mr. Henry Lawes.’” Review of English Studies 59.239 (2008): 232–54.

McLain, Carin. “Screening the Past: Shifting Desire in the Vita Nuova.” Italian Culture 26 (2008): 1–20.

Migiel, Marilyn. “Canto XVIII: Love, Free Will, and Sloth.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 191–99.

Moleta, Vincent. “Canto XX: Hugh Capet and the Avarice of Kings.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 210–21.

Morgan, Leslie Zarker. “(Mis)Quoting Dante: Early Epic Intertextuality in Huon d’Auvergne.” Neophilologus 92.4 (2008): 577–99.

Naitana, Filippo. “Dante and the Question of Happiness.” PhD diss., Yale University, 2008. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 69.6 (2008): 2294.

Oldcorn, Anthony. “Canto XI: Gone with the Wind.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 103–18.

Olson, Kristina Marie. “Recent Study on the Poetry of Citizenship in Dante.” Symposium 61.3 (2007): 211–15.

Pasquini, Emilio. “Canto XXXI: Dante’s Repentance.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 353–59.

Pertile, Lino. “Canto XXIV: Of  Poetry and Politics.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 262–76.

Perugi, Maurizio. “Canto VII: Sordello and the Catalog of Princes.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 73­–84.

Quaglio, Enzo. “Canto IV: The Lute Maker.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis,39–46.

Quinones, Riccardo J. “Canto VIII: In the Valley of the Rulers.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 73–84.

Raimoni, Ezio. “Canto I: Ritual and Story.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, translated by Charles Ross, 1–10.

Reynolds, Brian. “Morphing Mary: Pride, Humility, and Transformation in Dante’s Rewriting of Ovid.” Dante Studies 126 (2008): 21–55.

Ross, Charles. “Canto IX: The Ritual Keys.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 85–94.

Rossini, Antonio. “‘Dante fra le due mulieres’: Un ‘redux.’” Quaderni d’italianistica 29.1 (2008): 5–20.

Russell, Rinaldina. “Canto XXIII: Reading Literary and Ethical Choices.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 252–61.

Russo, Florence. “The Presence of Saturn and the Aetnas Aurea in Three Figures of Dante’s Comedy: The Medusa, the Siren and Matelda.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 68.7 (2008): 2968.

Saiber, Arielle. “Canto XV: Virtual Reality.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 151–66.

Scaglione, Aldo. “Canto V: The Keys to Purgatory.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 47–55.

Scatton-Tessier, Michelle, and Eric Tessier. “From Storyboard to Film: Marc Caro’s Dante 01.” Film International 6.3 [33] (2008): 26–33.

Scott, John. “Canto XVI: A World of Darkness and Disorder.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 167–77.

Sergiacomo, Lucilla. “Dante e il peccato: Sull’itinerario morale della Commedia.” Mediaevalia 29.2 (2008): 117–23.

Shaw, Prue. “Canto XXVI: The Fires of Lust and Poetry.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 288–302.

Simonelli, Maria Picchio. “Canto VI: Abject Italy.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis,56–64.

Slawinski, Maurice. “Celestial Discords: The Music of Dante’s Paradise.” Comparative Critical Studies 5.1 (2008): 57–80.

Smarr, Janet Levarie. “Canto XXI: Greeting Statius.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 222–35.

Storey, H. Wayne. “Canto XXXII: The Parallel Histories.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 360–77.

Stowell, Steven. “Visualizing the Sodomites in Dante’s Commedia.” Dante Studies 126 (2008): 143–74.

Sturm-Maddox, Sara. “Canto XIX: Vectors of Human Love.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 200–209.

Verdicchio, Massimo. “Canto XIV: The Rhetoric of Envy.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 141–50.

Verdicchio, Massimo. “Vico lettore di Dante.” Quaderni d’italianistica 28.2 (2007): 103–17.

Wingell, Albert. “Canto XIII: Among the Envious.” In Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis, 129–40.

 

Reviews

Alighieri, Dante. Commedia: Biblioteca Universitaria di Budapest Codex Italicus 1: Riproduzione fotografica (vol. 1); Studi e ricerche (vol. 2). Edited by Gian Paolo Marchi and József Pál. Verona: SiZ, 2006. Reviewed by:

            H. Wayne Storey, Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation 3.1 (2008): 85–91.

Alighieri, Dante. La Divina Commedia. Edited by Hans Honnacker and Marco Romanelli. Rome: Società Editrice Dante Alighieri, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Franco Nasi, Italica 85.1 (2008): 102–4.

Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy I: Inferno; A Bilingual Edition. Edited and translated by Robin Kirkpatrick. New York: Penguin Books, 2006. Reviewed by:

            Bruno Ferraro, Annali d’Italianistica 26 (2008): 467–68.

Alighieri, Dante. Four Political Letters. Edited and translated by Claire E. Honess. London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Fabian Alfie, Annali d’Italianistica 26 (2008): 486–88.

Ambrosio, Francis J. Dante and Derrida: Face to Face. Albany: State University of New York, 2007. Reviewed by:

            William C. Graham, Review of Metaphysics 61.3 (2008): 607–8.

Ardissino, Erminia, and Sabrina Stroppa Tomasi, eds. Dialoghi con Dante: Riscritture e ricodificazioni della Commedia”. Atti del convegno, Torino, 17–18 maggio 2004. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Alessandro La Monica, Annali d’Italianistica 26 (2008): 470–72.

Barnes, John C., and Jennifer Petrie, eds. Dante and the Human Body: Eight Essays. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Fabian Alfie, Annali d’Italianistica 26 (2008): 468–70.

Barolini, Teodolinda. Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006). Reviewed by:

            Bruno Ferraro, Annali d’Italianistica 26 (2008): 454–55.

            Francesco Ciabattoni, MLN 123.1 (2008): 208–10.

Bartuschat, Johannes. Les Vies” de Dante, Pétrarque et Boccace en Italie (XIVe–XVe Siècles): Contribution à l’histoire du genre biographique. Ravenna: Longo, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Rocco Rubini, Annali d’Italianistica 26 (2008): 455–57.

Baur, Christine O’Connell. Dante’s Hermeneutics of Salvation: Passages to Freedom in the “Divine Comedy.”  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Christian Moevs, Thomist 72.4 (2008): 684–88.

Biow, Douglas. The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. Reviewed by:

            Celeste Chamberland, Sixteenth–Century Journal 39.1 (2008): 204–5.

            Laura Giannetti, Modern Philology 106.2 (2008): 228–31.

            Sharon T. Strocchia, Speculum 83.1 (2008): 172–74

            Virginia Cox, Italica 85.2–3 (2008): 344–45.

Black, Robert. Education and Society in Florentine Tuscany: Teachers, Pupils and Schools, c. 1250–1500. Vol. 1. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Paul F. Grendler, Renaissance Quarterly 61.2 (2008): 509–11.

Boitani, Piero. Letteratura europea e medioevo volgare. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Warren Ginsberg, Speculum 83.3 (2008): 664–65.

Bolzoni, Lina. The Web of Images: Vernacular Preaching from Its Origins to St. Bernardino da Siena. Translated by Carole Preston and Lisa Chien. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Reviewed by:

            Dallas G. Denery II, Speculum 83.3 (2008): 666–67.

Carrai, Stefano. Dante elegiaco: una chiave di lettura per la Vita nova. Florence: Olschki, 2006. Reviewed by:

            Madison U. Sowell, Sixteenth-Century Journal 39.1 (2008): 241–42.

Casciani, Santa, ed. Dante and the Franciscan. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Reviewed by:

            Francesco Ciabattoni, Annali d’Italianistica 26 (2008): 460–63.

Cestaro, Gary P. Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body. William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies 5. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. Reviewed by:

            Cary Howie, Modern Philology 105.4 (2008): 708–11.

Cook, Eleanor. Enigmas and Riddles in Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Reviewed by:

            Eileen A. Joy, Sixteenth–Century Journal 39.1 (2008): 186–87.

            Edmond Wright, Comparative Literature 60.2 (2008): 203–5.

Cox, Catherine S. The Judaic Other in Dante, the Gawain Poet, and Chaucer. Gainsville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2005. Review by:

            Heather Richardson Hayton, Comparative Literature Studies 45, No. 2 (2008): 247-52.

Cronica de Origine Civitatis Florentiae. Ed. Riccardo Chellini. Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 2009. Reviewed by:

            José Blanco, Italian Quarterly 175-176 (2008): 75-77.

Dalmas, Davide. Dante nella crisi religiosa del Cinquecento italiano: Da Trifon Gabriele a Lodovico Castelvetro. Rome: Vecchiarelli, 2005. Reviewed by:

            Igor Candido, MLN 123.1 (2008): 198–201.

Fasani, Remo. L’infinito endecasillabo e tre saggi danteschi. Ravenna: Longo, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Elvira Giosi, Annali d’Italianistica 26 (2008): 474–76.

Fyler, John M. Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 63. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Reviewed by:

K. P. Clarke, Review of English Studies 59 (2008): 456–57.

Robert R. Edwards, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 30 (2008): 358–61.

Norm Klassen, Medium Aevum 77.2 (2008): 342–44 2008.

Tim William Machan, Speculum 83.4 (2008): 984–85.

Gilson, Simon A. Dante and Renaissance Florence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Reviewed by:

            George Dameron, Speculum 83.1 (2008): 198–99.

Gragnolati, Manuele. Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture. Reviewed by: 

            Sherry Roush, Italica 85, No. 2/3 (2008): 339-40.

Hawkins, Peter S. A Brief History. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Reviewed by:

            Kathleen Verduin, Religion and the Arts 124 (2008): 609-10. 

Jacoff, Rachel, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Dante. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Adriano Moz, Annali d’Italianistica 26 (2008): 457–60.

Kay, Richard. Dante’s Enigmas: Medieval Scholasticism and Beyond. Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate, 2006. Reviewed by:

            John Took, Modern Language Review 103 (2008): 868–70.

Kleinhenz, Christopher, ed. Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols. New York: Routledge, 2004. Reviewed by:

            Deborah Parker, MLN 123.1 (2008): 211–12.

Kraye, Jill A., and Laura Lepschy, eds. Caro Vitto: Essays in Memory of Vittore Branca. London: Warburg Institute, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Tobias Foster Gittes, Renaissance Quarterly 61.4 (2008): 1222–24.

Lombardi, Elena. The Syntax of Desire: Language and Love in Augustine, the Modistae, Dante. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Sherry Roush, Quaderni d’italianistica 29.1 (2008): 183–84.

Malato, Enrico. Per una nuova edizione commentata delle opere di Dante. Rome: Salerno, 2004. Reviewed by:

            Beatrice Arduini, Italica 85.1 (2008): 120–21.

Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds. Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio; A Canto-by-Canto Commentary. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Reviewed by:

            Tristan Kay, Annali d’Italianistica 26 (2008): 490–91.

Mari, Fabrizio. “Through Human Love to God”: Essays on Dante and Petrarch. Leicester, United Kingdom, 2008. Reviewed by:

            Pamela Williams, Quaderni d’italianistica 29.1 (2008): 184–86.

Marrone, Gaetana, Paolo Puppa, and Luca Somigli. Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. New York: Routledge, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Mario Moroni, Annali d’Italianistica 26 (2008): 431–33.

Najemy, John M., History of Florence, 1200–1575. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. Reviewed by:

            Mark Jurdjevic, Sixteenth-Century Journal 39.2 (2008): 489–90.

            Samuel Cohn Jr., Speculum 83.1 (2008): 223–25.

Nasti, Paola. Favole d’amore e “saver profondo”. La tradizione salomonica in Dante. Memoria del tempo 31. Ravenna: Longo, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Daniela Boccassini, Annali d’Italianistica 26 (2008): 492.

Ó Cuilleanáin, Cormac, and Jennifer Petrie, eds. Patterns in Dante: Nine Literary Essays. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. Reviewed by:

            Umberto Taccheri, Annali d’Italianistica 26 (2008): 482–84.

Raffa, Guy P. Danteworlds: A Reader’s Guide to the Inferno. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Rachel Jacoff, Speculum 83.3 (2008): 738–39.

            Fiorentina Russo, Forum Italicum 42.2 (2008): 451–52.

Sayce, Olive. Exemplary Comparison from Homer to Petrarch. Cambridge: Brewer, 2008. Reviewed by:

            Christopher Chaguinian, Encomia 29–30 (2007–2008): 45–47.

Sbacchi, Diego. La presenza di Dionigi Aeropagita nel Paradiso di Dante. Florence: Olschki, 2006. Reviewed by:

            Susanna Barsella, Italianistica 37, No. 1 (2008): 159-62.

Smarr, Janet L., ed. Writers Reading Writers: Intertextual Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Literature in Honor of Robert Hollander. Cranbury: University of Delaware Press, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Pina Palma, Renaissance Quarterly 61.2 (2008): 612–14.

Stabile, Giorgio. Dante e la filosofia della natura: Percezioni, linguaggi, cosmologie. Florence: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007. Reviewed by:

            Gustavo Costa, Italica 85.2–3 (2008): 337–39.

Steinberg, Justin. Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval Italy. William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies 8. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Reviewed by:

[Anon.], Studi Medievali 49.1 (2008): 515–16.

Roberta Gentile, Rassegna della letteratura italiana 112 (2008): 209.

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