American Dante Bibliography for 2006

Richard Lansing

This bibliography is intended to include all publications on Dante (books, articles, translations, reviews) appearing in North America in 2006, as well as reviews from foreign sources of books published in the United States and Canada. 

 

Books

Alighieri, Dante. The New Life/La Vita Nuova: A Dual–Language Book. Edited by Stanley Appelbaum. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2006). 110 pp.

All My Life’s a Circle: A Harry Chapin and Dante Alighieri Anthology. Edited by Daniel Christian. Baltimore: dchristian@gilman.edu Press, 2006. 33 pp.

Barolini, Teodolinda. Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. 475 pp.

Bigongiari, Dino. Readings in the Divine Comedy. Dover, Del.: Griffon, for Bagehot Council, 2006. 339 pp.

Bolduc, Michelle. The Medieval Poetics of Contraries. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xiv, 304 pp.

Cook, Christopher D. Dante at Illinois. Urbana, Ill.: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 2006. v, 35 pp.

Cook, Eleanor. Enigmas and Riddles in Literature. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 312 pp.

Hawkins, Peter S. Dante: A Brief History. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2006. xxvi, 194 pp.

Kay, Richard. Dante’s Enigmas: Medieval Scholasticism and Beyond. Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2006. 352 pp.

McMahon, Robert. Understanding the Medieval Meditative Ascent: Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, and Dante. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2006. 284 pp.

Medievalism in Technology Old and New. Edited by Karl Fugelso. Cambridge, Eng.: Brewer, 2008. 207 pp.

Stone, Gregory B. Dante’s Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 326 pp. 

 

Studies

Allegretti, Paola. “La canzone ‘montanina’: Dante tra Ovidio e Melibeo.” Dante Studies 124 (2006): 119–136.

Arduini, Beatrice and H. Wayne Storey. “Edizione diplomatico–interpretativa della lettera di frate Ilaro (Laur. XXIX 8, c. 67r).” Dante Studies 124 (2006): 77–89.

Austenfeld, Thomas. “How to Begin a New World: Dante in Walcott’s Omeros.” South Atlantic Review 71.3 (2006): 15–28.

Balsamo, Gian. “Alterity in Dante and Caterina da Siena.” Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 18.1 (2006): 1–30.

Barnes, John. “Moroello “vapor”: metafora meteorica e visione dantesca del marchese di Giovagallo.” Dante Studies 124 (2006): 35–56.

Butler, George F. “The Fall of Tydeus and the Failure of Satan: Statius’ Thebaid, Dante’s Commedia, and Milton’s Paradise Lost.” Comparative Literature Studies 43 (2006): 134–52.

Caesar, Judith. “Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Dante’s Inferno.” The Explicator 64.3 (Spring 2006): 162–66. 

Caïti–Russo, Gilda. “Il marchese Moroello Malaspina, testimone ideale di un dibattito tra Dante e Cino sull’eredità trobadorica.” Dante Studies (2006): 137–148.

Cardellino, Lodovico. “‘Dischiuso’ in Paradiso 7.102 e 14.138: ha il senso usuale di ‘aperto’ o ‘espresso’, non di ‘escluso’. EBDSA, Purgatorio: 10 January 2006.

Cardellino, Lodovico. “I ‘vivi suggelli’ in Paradiso 14.133.” EBDSA, Paradiso: 23 February 2006.

Cary, Phillip. “The Weight of Love: Augustinian Metaphors of Movement in Dante’s Souls.” In Augustine and Literature, edited by Robert P. Kennedy et al. New York: Lexington, 2006, 15–36.

Ciabattoni, Francesco. “Dante’s Journey to Polyphony.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 67 (2006): 1360–61.

Ciabattoni, Francesco. “Dante’s Organa: The Comedy from Unholy Racket to Sacred Music.” Italian Quarterly 43: 167/168 (2006): 5–23.

Ciccuto, Marcello. “I Malaspina ‘prodi’ della Commedia e l’etica cortese dantesca.” Dante Studies 124 (2006): 25–33.

Clark, Joy L. “Dante’s Virgil: A Poet’s Type of Exile.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 67 (2006): 1329–30.

Colόn, Susan. “Dickens’s Hard Times and Dante’s Inferno.” The Explicator 65.1 (Fall 2006): 31–33. 

Cornish, Alison. “Translatio galliae: Effects of Early Franco–Italian Literary Exchange.” Romanic Review 97 (2006): 309–30.

Dimock, Wai–chee. “Weird Conjunction: ‘Dante and the Lobster’.” In Beckett after Beckett, edited by S. E. Gontarski and Anthony Uhlmann (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006), 197–201.

Franke, William. “Primordial Sacrifice, Typology and the Theological Vocation of Literature: Extending Gian Balsamo's Interpretation of Joyce and Christian Epic.” Literature and Theology 20, no. 3 (2006): 251–68.

Gambera, Disa. “Women and Walls: Boccaccio’s Teseida and the Edifice of Dante’s Poetry.” Annali d’Italianistica 24 (2006): 39–68.

Giosi, Elvira. “La profezia di Beatrice nel canto XXXIII del Purgatorio nel contesto delle attese escatologiche francescane.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 67 (2006): 181. Rutgers the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick.

Hawkins, Peter S. “All Smiles: Poetry and Theology in Dante.” PMLA 121 (2006): 371–87.

Hawkins, Peter. “Surprise Ending: Imagining Heaven.” The Christian Century 23, no. 23 (2006): 30–35.

Hawkins, Peter. “A Small, Good Thing.” I Have Called You Friends: Reflections on Reconciliation. Ed. Barbara Braver. Cambridge, Mass: Cowley Publications (2006): 87–97.

Heilbronn–Gaines, Denise. “The Two Centers of Malebolge.” EBDSA: Inferno, 12 May 2006.

Hollander, Robert. “Charles Singleton’s Hidden Debts to Thomas Okey and John Sinclair.” EBDSA: Varia, 12 February 2006.

Hollander, Robert. “Paradiso 24.13–21: St. Peter’s Companions.” EBDSA: Paradiso, 8 May 2006.

Imus, Ashleigh. “Vaga è la donna vaga: The Gendering of vago in the Commedia, the Decameron and the Canzoniere.” Forum Italicum 40 (2006): 213–33.

Indizio, Giuseppe. “Dante e l’enigma del monaco Ilaro di S. Croce: contributo per una vexata quaestio.” Dante Studies 124 (2006): 91–118.

Jackel, Brad. “Dante, Dore, and Conrad. Imagery and Dante Alighieri, Gustave Dore, Joseph Conrad.” Conradiana 38.2 (2006): 103–115.

Kauth, Jean–Marie. “The Shaping of Dante’s Cosmos.” Medievalia et Humanistica 32 (2006): 7–24. 

Lansing, Richard. “American Dante Bibliography for 2005.” Dante Studies 124 (2006): 149–59.

McFall, E. K. “Macbeth and Dante’s Inferno.” Notes and Queries 53.4 (2006): 490–94.

Manescalchi, Romano. “‘La luna, quasi a mezza notte, tarda’ (Purg. 18.76).” EBDSA, Purgatorio: 15 August 2006.

Martineau, Fay. “A literary source for the Cross of Mars? (Par. 14. 103–108).” EBDSA, Paradiso: 1 February 2006.

Most, Glenn. “Dante’s Greeks.” Arion 13.3 (Winter 2006): 15–47.

Pasquini, Emilio. “‘La fama che la vostra casa onora’: Dante and the Malaspina Seven Centuries after his Sojourn in Lunigiana (1306–2006)–Preface.” Dante Studies 124 (2006): 1–6.

Ruda, Jeffrey. “Satan’s Body: Religion and Gender Parody in Late Medieval Italy.” Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 37 (2006): 319–50.

Scott, John A. “Paradiso 10.49–51, 133–138: Saint Siger.” EBDSA: Paradiso, 8 December 2006.

Stewart, Susan. “Dante and the Poetry of Meeting.” American Poetry Review 35.4 (2006): 39–42.

Storey, H. Wayne. “Contesti e culture testuali della lettera di frate Ilaro.” Dante Studies 124 (2006): 57–76. 

Van Hulle, Dirk. “Undoing Dante: Samuel Beckett’s Poetics from a Textual Perspective.” Text: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies 16 (2006): 87–95.

Zaccarello, Michelangelo. “Lectura di Purgatorio VIII.” Dante Studies 124 (2006): 1–23.

Zaller, Robert. “Kenneth Rexroth’s Divine Comedy.” Boulevard 21.2–3 (2006): 229–52.

 

Reviews

Balsamo, Gian. Rituals of Literature: Joyce, Dante, Aquinas, and the Tradition of Christian Epics (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 2004). Reviewed by:

            Andras Ungar, James Joyce Quarterly 44.1 (2006): 169–73.

Bárberi Squarotti, Giorgio. Il tragico cristiano da Dante ai moderni. Florence: Olschki, 2003. Reviewed by:

            Luciana Cuppo Csaki, Sixteenth Century Journal 37.2 (2006): 558–59.

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

            F. Regina Psaki, Encomia 28 (2006): 22–24.

Basile, Paola. I folli voli di Ulisse. Pesaro: Metauro, 2006. Reviewed by:

            Franco Zangrilli, Italian Quarterly 43/169–70 (2006): 101–2.

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

            John Bernard, Classical and Modern Literature 26.2 (2006): 259–66.

Pastore Passaro, Maria C. Representations of Women in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Texts. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. Reviewed by:

            Federico Schneider, Italian Quarterly 43/169–70 (2006): 103–5.

Balsamo, Gian. Joyce’s Messianism: Dante, Negative Existence, and the Messianic Self. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. Reviewed by:

            Andras Ungar, James Joyce Quarterly 44 (2006): 169–74.

Boccassini, Daniela. Il volo della mente: Falconeria e Sofia nel mondo mediterraneo: Islam, Federico II, Dante. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2003. Reviewed by:

            Rinaldina Russell. Speculum 81.2 (April 2006): 488–89.

Braida, Antonella. Dante and the Romantics. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Reviewed by:

            Maria Schoina, Wordsworth Circle 37 (2006): 230–31.

            Jeremy Tambling, Yearbook of English Studies, 36 (2006): 270–71.

Cassell, Anthony K. The Monarchia Controversy: An Historical Study with Accompanying Translations of Dante Alighieri’s Monarchia, Guido Vernani’s Refutation of the Monarchia Composed by Dante and Pope John XXII’s Bull, Si Fratrum. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004. Reviewed by:

            Ronald L. Martinez, Speculum 81 (2006): 159–61.

            Kenneth Pennington, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 57 (2006): 139–40.

Cestaro, Gary P. Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. Reviewed by:

            David Ruzicka, The Modern Language Review 101 (2006): 552–53.

            Umberto Taccheri, Annali d’Italianistica 24 (2006): 371–72.

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

            Andrew Galloway, The Review of English Studies 57 (2006): 401–2.

            James H. Morey, Speculum 81 (2006): 1174–76.

Dameron, George W. Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Reviewed by:

            David Foote, Speculum 81 (2006): 830–31.

            Ronald G. Musto, Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006): 851–53.

            John M. Najemy, American Historical Review 111 (2006): 916–17.

Dante for the New Millennium, edited by Teodolinda Barolini and H. Wayne Storey. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. Reviewed by:

            Simon Gilson, Speculum 81 (2006): 480–81.

            Jessica Raymond, Christianity and Literature, 55 (2006): 271–78.

Dante Metamorphoses: Episodes in a Literary Afterlife. Edited by Eric G. Haywood. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts, 2003. Reviewed by:

            John Lindon, The Modern Language Review 101 (2006): 261–62.

Emison, Patricia A. Creating the “Divine” Artist from Dante to Michelangelo. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Reviewed by:

            James C. Hughes, The Sixteenth Century Journal 37 (2006): 140–41.   

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

            Alison C. Fleming, The Sixteenth Century Journal 37 (2006): 1111–113.

            Deborah Parker, Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006): 131–33.

            Brenda Deen Schildgen, Annali d’Italianistica 24 (2006): 369–70.

Havely, Nick. Dante and the Franciscans: Poverty and the Papacy in the Commedia. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Reviewed by:

            Gloria Allaire, Romance Quarterly 53 (2006): 237–39.

            Ronald Herzman, Speculum 81 (2006): 858–60.

            Penn Szittya, Modern Philology 104 (2006): 246–49.

Marti, Mario. Da Dante a Croce. Proposte consensi dissensi. Galatina: Congedo, 2005. Reviewed by:

            Dino S. Cervigni, Annali d’Italianistica 24 (2006): 364–65.

Moevs, Christian. The Metaphysics of Dante’s Comedy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Reviewed by:

            Steven Botterill, Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006): 482–84.

            Giuliana Carugati, The Journal of the History of Philosophy 44 (2006): 474–75.

            Theresa Kenney, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80 (2006): 137–41.

Raffi, Alessandro. La gloria del volgare. Ontologia e semiotica in Dante dal Convivio al De vulgari eloquentia. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2004. Reviewed by:

            Roberta Morosini, Annali d’Italianistica 24 (2006): 373–74.

Richard, Robert. L’Émotion européenne: Dante, Sade, Aquin. Montreal: Editions Varia, 2004. Reviewed by:

            Susan Dalton, Canadian Literature 190 (2006): 167–68.

Roush, Sherry. Hermes’ Lyre: Italian Poetic Self–Commentary from Dante to Tommaso Campanella. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Reviewed by:

            Michael Sherberg, Italica 83 (2006): 326–27.

Scott, John A. Understanding Dante. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Reviewed by:

            Claudia Boscolo, The Modern Language Review 101 (2006): 861–62.

            K. P. Clarke, The Sixteenth Century Journal 37 (2006): 912–13.

            Francesca Galligan, Medium Aevum 75 (2006): 161–62.

            Ronald L. Martinez, Speculum 81 (2006): 923–24.