This bibliography is intended to included all publications on Dante (books, articles, translations, reviews) appearing in North America in 2002, as well as reviews from foreign sources of books published in the United States and Canada.
Alighieri, Dante. The Inferno; A New Verse Translation. Translated by Michael Palma. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.
Alighieri, Dante. The Inferno. Translated, edited, and with an introduction by Anthony Esolen; illustrations by Gustave Doré. New York: Modern Library, 2002.
Alighieri, Dante. The Inferno; A New Translation. Translated by Ciaran Carson. New York: Granta, 2002.
Alighieri, Dante. “Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): Three canzoni from the Convivio.” Translated by Douglas Lackey. The Philosophical Forum 33 (2002), 234-53.
Alighieri, Pietro. Comentum super poema Comedie Dantis: A Critical Edition of the Third and Final Draft of Pietro Alighieri’s “Commentary on Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy.’” Edited by Massimiliano Chiamenti. Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002.
Chiamenti’s monumental effort at last makes it possible for twenty-first-century readers to use, and profit from, a reliable text of the third version of Dante’s son’s commentary on his father’s poem. Exemplary in its scrupulous and exhaustive attention to the text and its impeccable observation of the norms of philology, this is an indispensable resource for readers interested in the fourteenth-century tradition of commentary on the Commedia.
Dante: The Critical Complex. Edited with introductions by Richard Lansing. 8 vols. Routledge: New York & London, 2002. Volume titles: 1: Dante and Beatrice: the Poet’s Life and the Invention of Poetry. x, 426 p.; 2: Dante and Classical Antiquity: the Epic Tradition. xi, 416 p.; 3: Dante and Philosophy: Nature, the Cosmos, and the Ethical Imperative. xi, 380 p.; 4: Dante and Theology: the Biblical Tradition and Christian Allegory. viii, 424 p.; 5: Dante and History: from Florence and Rome to the Heavenly Jerusalem. xi, 420 p.; 6: Dante and Critical Theory. x, 432 p.; 7: Dante and Interpretation. xi, 414 p.; 8: Dante’s Afterlife: the Influence and Reception of the Commedia. xii, 418 p.
A compendium of previously published articles and essays by major Dante critics. The collection is organized by theme and covers the entire range of Dante’s literary works. The texts, representing the American and British critical heritage and dating from post World War II to the present, appear in their original format. The editor provides a general introduction to the series as well as topical introductions and bibliographies for each set of articles.
Fortin, Ernest L. Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2002.
Fortin takes a decidedly historiographical and politicized approach to Dante’s work, one which attempts to extract a specifically historical meaning from the texts while conceding that this is an inherently difficult enterprise because of Dante’s refusal to limit his own approach in this way. He extends his argument by considering Arabic and Hebrew texts of Dante’s era; because of the essentially humanistic outlook of Dante’s work, it is very dissimilar from these, but still linked to them by ties of a historical nature.
Fraser, Jennifer Margaret. Rites of Passage in the Narratives of Dante and Joyce. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2002.
Fraser constructs her comparison of Dante and Joyce by introducing the image of a medieval diptych, with its two separate, but related, panels. Authors are obviously separated by features such as chronology, but their works can be brought into fruitful relationship through close examination. By subjecting Dante’s text to such examination, Fraser seeks to prove that Joyce’s narratives take on a new, changed meaning. Fraser goes on to inquire if it is Dante who influences Joyce, or if it is the reader who is changed after the experience of reading each author’s work. She concludes that, at the very least, familiarity with Joyce’s work may change the reader’s outlook on the Commedia.
Hein, Rolland. Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L’Engle, J.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, Dante Alighieri, John Bunyan, Walter Wangerin, Robert Siegel, and Hannah Hurnard. Chicago, Illinois: Cornerstone Press Chicago, 2002.
Dante makes a perhaps rather unexpected appearance in this collection of mostly twentieth-century authors of “Christian myth,” but Hein makes a plausible case for his relevance in this context, especially since many of the writers appearing here (Lewis, Williams, Tolkien, for starters) acknowledged his importance to their own work. By and large he avoids the obvious dangers of anachronism as he conducts an analysis that will perhaps appeal above all to declaredly Christian students of literature, but whose usefulness and implications – like Dante’s own work – in the end reach far beyond any narrowly confessional definition.
Parks, Tim. Hell and Back: Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2002.
In the part of this collection of reprinted writings that deals with Dante, Parks, a distinguished British novelist and commentator on Italian society, literature, and culture, analyzes the allegorical significance present in Inferno, and poses the question – familiar to perhaps more readers of the Comedy than Dante scholars would care to admit – of how anything in Purgatory and Paradise can possibly compete with what Dante presents to his readers while conveying them through Hell. Particularly interesting is Parks’ description of the poem as a means both of making Dante famous, and of allowing him to renew the relationship with Beatrice that was interrupted by her untimely death.
Schildgen, Brenda Deen. Dante and the Orient. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Schildgen presents the argument that Dante created the Comedy as a work about Europe, not simply because of inherent “Eurocentrism,” but because of the political and ecclesiastical turmoil in Italy. The “matter of the East” is transformed into a localized Crusade to save Florence, Italy, Europe, and the Christian church. She discusses the state of geographical knowledge in the thirteenth century; how Crusade literature may be compared to Dante’s “crusader epic;” how Dante uses the Crusader narrative in order to save Europe; Dante’s introduction of the Indus and how it is able to represent the areas outside the his “Orosian geopolitical world”; and finally, how Dante makes all physical and geographical realities a metaphorical instance through his representation of a miraculous vision, because its ontological status surpasses that of all the travels recounted by medieval authors.
Ahern, John. “Binding the Book: Hermeneutics and Manuscript Production in Paradiso 33.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 402-411. Reprinted from PMLA, 97 (1982), 800-809.
Ahern, John. “The New Life of the Book: The Implied Reader of the Vita nuova.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 157-172. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 110 (1992), 1-16.
Albrecht, James. “‘Il cenno ch’a ciò si conface’ (Purg. 21.15).” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America: posted February 25, 2002, at http://www.princeton.edu/~dante/ebdsa.
Rejecting the explanations offered by earlier commentators, Albrecht proposes that the “cenno” in this line is the sign of the cross, but that the real significance of the episode lies in what does not precede that sign, namely the verbal response “and eternal life” invited by Statius’ salutation (as the familiar formulation in the Liturgy of the Hours would suggest). Virgil is debarred by his damnation from invoking in speech an eternal life of salvation in which he does not share, but he is still capable of making an appropriate, indeed exemplary, physical gesture of response.
Alfie, Fabian. “For Want of a Nail: The Guerri-Lanza-Cursietti Argument regarding the Tenzone.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 247-265. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 116 (1998), 141-159.
Alfie, Fabian. “Rustico’s Reputation: Ramifications for Dante’s Tenzone with Forese Donati.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America: posted March 29, 2002, at
http://www.princeton.edu/~dante/ebdsa.
Argues that the fluctuating status of Rustico’s reputation after it reached a peak in the 1280s and 1290s makes it relatively less likely that a much later author (such as Stefano Finiguerri, “il Za”) wrote the tenzone ascribed to Dante and Forese Donati than that Dante and Forese themselves did.
Allaire, Gloria. “Filigrane divine: Watermarks as Images in Dante’s Paradiso.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America: posted September 19, 2002, at http://www.princeton.edu/~dante/ebdsa.
Noting the use on several occasions in the Comedy of imagery derived from manuscript production, Allaire examines the extent to which visual images in Paradiso may be owed to, or at least connected with, watermark designs available in Dante’s time.
Ardissino, Erminia. “Parodie liturgiche nell’Inferno.” Annali d’Italianistica 25 (2007): 217-32.
Armour, Peter. “The Theme of Exodus in the First Two Cantos of the Purgatorio.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 223-263. Reprinted from Dante Soundings, edited by David Nolan (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1981), 59-99.
Ascoli, Albert Russell. “Dante after Dante.” In Dante for the New Millennium (q.v.), 349-68.
Warns of the perils of reading Dante’s works theoretically rather than historically, arguing that a simply theoretical reading of the Commedia will distort an understanding of the text’s narrative.
Ascoli, Albert Russell. “‘Neminem ante nos’: Historicity and Authority in the De vulgari eloquentia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 46-91. Reprinted from Annali d’Italianistica, 8 (1990), 186-211.
Auerbach, Erich. “Farinata and Cavalcante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 33-62. Reprinted from Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, translated by W. Trask (New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1957 [1946]), 151-177.
Audeh, Aida. “Images of Dante’s Exile in 19th-Century France.” Annali d'Italianistica, 20 (2002): 235-58.
Auerbach, Erich. “Figura.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 1-66. Reprinted from Scenes from the Drama of European Literature: Six Essays (New York: Meridian Books, 1959), 11-76.
Balfour, Mark. “‘Orribil furon li peccati miei’: Manfred’s Wounds in Purgatorio III.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 264-277. Reprinted from Italian Studies, 48 (1993), 4-17.
Baranski, Zygmunt G. “Dante’s Biblical Linguistics.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 261-299. Reprinted from Lectura Dantis, 5 (1989), 105-143.
Baranski, Zygmunt. “Comedía. Notes on Dante, the Epistle to Cangrande, and Medieval Comedy.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 194-223. Reprinted from Lectura Dantis, 8 (1991), 26-55.
Baranski, Zygmunt. “The ‘New Life’ of ‘Comedy’: The Commedia and the Vita Nuova.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 279-307. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 113 (1995), 1-29.
Barolini, Teodolinda. “Dante and the Lyric Past.” In Dante Alighieri (q.v.), 117-149. Reprinted from The Cambridge Companion to Dante, edited by Rachel Jacoff (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Barolini, Teodolinda. “Autocitation and Autobiography.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 217-254. Reprinted from Dante’s Poets: Textuality and Truth in the “Comedy” (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 3-39.
Barolini, Teodolinda. “Dante and Francesca da Rimini: Realpolitik, Romance, Gender.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 89-116. Reprinted from Speculum, 75 (2000), 1-28.
Barolini, Teodolinda. “Detheologizing Dante: Realism, Reception, and the Resources of Narrative.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 79-102. Reprinted from T. Barolini, The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, 3-20.
Barolini, Teodolinda. “Statius: ‘Per te poeta fui.’” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 278-291. Reprinted from Dante’s Poets: Textuality and Truth in the “Comedy” (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 256-269.
Barolini, Teodolinda. “Vergil: ‘Poeta fui.’” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 247-302. Reprinted from Dante’s Poets: Textuality and Truth in the “Comedy” (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 201- 256.
Becker, Marvin. “Dante and His Literary Contemporaries as Political Men.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 227-242. Reprinted from Speculum, 41 (1966), 665-680.
Benfell, V. Stanley. “Prophetic Madness: The Bible in Inferno XIX,” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 323-341. Reprinted from Modern Language Notes, 110 (1995), 145-63.
Bisson, Lillian M. “Brunetto Latini as a Failed Mentor.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 133-147. Reprinted from Medievalia et Humanistica, 18 (1992), 1-15.
Boli, Todd. “Boccaccio’s Trattatello in laude di Dante, Or Dante Resartus.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 1-24. Reprinted from Renaissance Quarterly, 41, 3 (1988), 389-412.
Bondanella, Peter E. “Arnaut Daniel and Dante’s Rime Petrose: A Re-Examination.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 330-348. Reprinted from Studies in Philology, 68 (1971), 416-434.
Botterill, Steven. “Ideals of the Institutional Church in Dante and Bernard of Clairvaux.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 405-421. Reprinted from Italica, 78: 3 (2001), 297-313.
Brand, C. P. “Dante and the Middle Ages in Neo-Classical and Romantic Criticism.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 121-130. Reprinted from Modern Language Review, 81 (1986), 327-336.
Brownlee, Kevin. “Literary Genealogy and the Problem of the Father: Christine de Pizan and Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 25-47. Reprinted from Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 23: 3 (1993), 365-387.
Brownlee, Kevin. “The Practice of Cultural Authority: Italian Responses to French Cultural Dominance in Il Tesoretto, Il Fiore, and the Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 412-423. Reprinted from Forum for Modern Language Studies, 33: 3 (1997), 258-69.
Bryden, Mary. “No Stars without Stripes: Beckett and Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 401-416. Reprinted from Romanic Review, 87: 4 (1996), 541-56.
Cachey, Theodore. “Between Hermeneutics and Poetics: Translation of the Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 410-430. Reprinted from Annali D’Italianistica, 8 (1990), 144-164.
Cambon, Glauco. “Dante and the Drama of Language.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 23-46. Reprinted from The World of Dante: Six Studies in Language and Thought, edited by S. Bernard Chandler and J. A. Molinaro (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1966), 3-24.
Cambon, Glauco. “Dante’s Presence in American Literature.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 167-190. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 84 (1966), 27-50.
Cambon, Glauco. “Lectura Dantis: Inferno X.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 64-78. Reprinted from Dante’s Divine Comedy: Introductory Readings. I: Inferno. Lectura Dantis, Special Issue: Lectura Dantis Virginiana, vol. I, 6 Supplement (1990), 124-138.
Cambon, Glauco. “Wallace Stevens’s Dialogue with Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 254-278. Reprinted from Dante Among the Moderns, edited by Stuart Y. McDougal (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1985), 102-127.
Carranza, Paul. “Philosophical Songs: The ‘Song of Iopas’ in the Aeneid and the Francesca Episode in Inferno 5.” Dante Studies, 120 (2002): 35-51.
Seeks to relate the “song of Iopas” (Aeneid 1. 740-46), “the point at which philosophical poetry makes its most emphatic entrance into Vergil’s epic,” to the Comedy, especially Inferno 5.
Carugati, Giuliana. “Mistica, Ermeneutica, Dante.” MLN 117.1 (2002), 1-16.
Cassell, Anthony K. “Dante’s Farinata and the Image of the Arca.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 197-232. Reprinted from Yale Italian Studies, 1 (1977), 335-70.
Cassell, Anthony K. “The Exiled Dante's Hope for Reconciliation: Monarchia 3:16.16-18.” Annali d'Italianistica, 20 (2002): 425-49.
Cassell, Anthony, K., “The Tomb, the Tower and the Pit: Dante’s Satan.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 201-221. Reprinted from Italica, 56 (1979), 331-351.
Chiarenza, Marguerite Mills. “Boethian Themes in Dante’s Reading of Virgil.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 79-89. Reprinted from Stanford Italian Review, 3: 1 (1983), 25?35.
Cioffi, Caron Ann. “‘Il cantor de’ bucolici carmi’: The Influence of Virgilian Pastoral and Dante’s Earthly Paradise.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 387-413. Reprinted from Lectura Dantis Newberryana, 1 (1988), 93-119.
Cioffi, Caron. “St. Augustine Revisited: On Conversion in the Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 372-384. Reprinted from Lectura Dantis, 5 (1989), 68-80.
Cogan, Marc. “Delight, Punishment, and the Justice of God in the Divina Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 117-142. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 111 (1993), 27-52.
Colish, Marcia L. “Medieval Allegory: A Historiographical Consideration.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 135-149. Reprinted from Clio, 4, 3 (1975), 341-355.
Contini, Gianfranco. “Introduction to Dante’s Rime.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 318-328. Reprinted from Dante: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by John Freccero (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1965), 28-38.
Contini, Gianfranco. “Philology and Dante Exegesis.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 1-32. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 87 (1969), 1-32.
Cooksey, Thomas L. “The Central Man of the World: The Victorian Myth of Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 151-165. Reprinted from Studies in Medievalism, 4 (1992), 187-201.
Cooper, Richard. “The French Dimension in Dante’s Politics.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 168-194. Reprinted from Dante and Governance, edited by John Woodhouse (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), 58-84.
Cornish, Alison. “Beatrice and the Astronomical Heavens.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 308-317. Reprinted from Lectura Dantis, 18-19 (1996), 20-29.
Cornish, Alison. “Planets and Angels in Paradiso XXIX: The First Moment.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 353-380. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 108 (1990), 1-28.
Cox, Catherine S. “‘Il Giudeo di voi’: Contiguity and Conflict in Dante’s Paradiso.” South Atlantic Review, 67, No. 1 (Winter, 2002): 17-37.
Cuzzilla, Tony. “The Perception of Time in the Commedia: Purg. 4.10-12.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America: posted May 22, 2002, at http://www.princeton.edu/~dante/ebdsa. Points out that “medieval psychology assigned the perception of time not to the intellect but to a precise faculty of the sensitive soul,” and uses this fact, unremarked by previous commentators on his chosen passage, as the starting-point for a more accurate interpretation. This interpretation also justifies the reading “questa” for “quella” in line, found in Urb. Lat. 366 in the Vatican Library but not adopted even by Federico Sanguineti in his edition based on that manuscript.
Davis, Charles T. “Dante’s Vision of History.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 1-18. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 93 (1975), 143-160.
Davis, Charles T. “Remigio de’ Girolami and Dante: A Comparison of Their Conceptions of Peace.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 243-274. Reprinted from Studi Danteschi, 36 (1959), 105-136.
Davis, Charles. “Dante and Ecclesiastical Property.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 294-307. Reprinted from Law in Mediaeval Life and Thought, edited by Edward B. King and Susan J. Ridyard (Sewanee, Tennessee: The Press of the University of the South, 1990), 244-257.
Davis, Charles. “Rome and Babylon in Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 69-90. Reprinted from Rome in the Renaissance: The City and the Myth, edited by P. A. Ramsey (Binghamton, New York: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1982), 19-40.
Di Cesare, Mario A. “Interrupted Symmetries: Terza Rima, Heroic Verse, First Lines, and the Styles of Epic.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 1-33. Reprinted from Mediaevalia, 12 (1989 for 1986), 271-303.
Donno, Daniel J. “Dante’s Argenti: Episode and Function.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 117-131. Reprinted from Speculum, 40 (1965), 611-625.
Dronke, Peter. “Symbolism and Structure in Paradiso 30.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 381-400. Reprinted from Romance Philology, 43 (1989), 29-48.
Durling, Robert M. “‘Io son venuto’: Seneca, Plato, and the Microcosm.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 349-383. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 93 (1975), 95-129.
Ellis, Stephen Paul. “Yeats and Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 313-329. Reprinted from Comparative Literature, 33, 1 (1981), 1-17.
Ellis, Steve. “Chaucer, Dante, and Damnation.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 60-72. Reprinted from Chaucer Review, 22 (1988), 282-294.
Emmerson, Richard K., and Ronald B. Herzman. “The Commedia: Apocalypse, Church, and Dante’s Conversion.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 350-401. Reprinted from The Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992), 104-144, 203-213.
Ferrante, Joan M. “Dante and Politics.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 19-32. Reprinted from Dante: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Amilcare A. Iannucci (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), 181-194.
Ferrante, Joan M. “Florence and Rome, The Two Cities of Man in The Divine Comedy.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 275-293. Reprinted from The Early Renaissance, ed. Aldo S. Bernardo. Acta [Proceedings of SUNY Regional Conferences in Medieval Studies], Vol. 5 (Binghamton, New York: The Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1978), 1-19.
Ferrante, Joan M. “History is Myth, Myth is History.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 33-49. Reprinted from Dante. Mito e poesia. Atti del secondo Seminario dantesco internazionale, edited by Michelangelo Picone and Tatiana Crivelli (Florence: Franco Cesati Editore, 1999), 317-333.
Ferrante, Joan M. “The Bible as Thesaurus for Secular Literature.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 233-259. Reprinted from The Bible in the Middle Ages: Its Influence on Literature and Art, edited by Bernard S. Levy (Binghamton, New York: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992), 23-49.
Ferrante, Joan. “Dante’s Beatrice, Priest of an Androgynous God.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 187-216. Reprinted from CEMERS Occasional Publications Series, 2 (Binghamton, New York: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992), 1-32.
Fosca, Nicola. “Beatitudini e processo di purgazione.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America: posted February 5, 2002, at http://www.princeton.edu/~dante/ebdsa.
Noting an apparent lack of connection, remarked by various commentators, between the fourth Beatitude (“blessed are they that weep”), sung as Dante leaves the fourth cornice of Mount Purgatory (Purg. 19.49-51), and the vice of accidia that is purged there, Fosca uses Aquinas and Augustine to argue that the beatitude is associated with the gift of knowledge, and that ignorance is seen as a form of accidia. Fosca concludes that “l’incompatibilità fra dono della scienza e vizio dell’accidia pare costituire la base dottrinale del segmento narrativo in cui il canto della terza beatitudine si accompagna all’eliminazione della quarta ‘P’.”
Foster, Kenelm, O.P. “The Celebration of Order, Paradiso X.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 323-338. Reprinted from The Two Dantes and Other Studies (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977), 120-136.
Foster, Kenelm. “Religion and Philosophy in Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 113-144. Reprinted from The Mind of Dante, edited by Uberto Limentani. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965), 47-78.
Freccero, John. “Dante’s Pilgrim in a Gyre.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 1250-263. Reprinted from PMLA, 76 (1961), 168-181.
Freccero, John. “Dante’s Prologue Scene.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 63-87. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 84 (1966), 1-25.
Freccero, John. “Medusa: The Letter and the Spirit.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 355-371. Reprinted from Dante: The Poetics of Conversion, edited by Rachel Jacoff (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986), 119-135.
Fussell, Edwin. “Dante and Pound’s Cantos.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 281-293. Reprinted from Journal of Modern Literature, 1 (1970), 75-87.
Gilson, Etienne. “Dante’s Notion of a Shade: Purgatorio XXV.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 340-358. Reprinted from Mediaeval Studies, 29 (1967), 124-142.
Gilson, Simon A. “Dante and the Science of ‘Perspective.’” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 305-339. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 115 (1997), 185-219.
Grayson, Cecil. “Dante and the Renaissance.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 73-91. Reprinted from Italian Studies Presented to E.R. Vincent, edited by C. P. Brand et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962), 57-75.
Grayson, Cecil. “Dante’s Theory and Practice of Poetry.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 2-21. Reprinted from The World of Dante: Essays on Dante and his Times, edited by Cecil Grayson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), 146-165.
Greene, Thomas M. “Dramas of Selfhood in the Comedy.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 1-34. Reprinted from From Time to Eternity, edited by Thomas G. Bergin (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967), 103-136.
Harrison, Robert Pogue. “Comedy and Modernity: Dante’s Hell.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 221-239. Reprinted from MLN, 102: 5 (1987), 1043-1061.
Harrison, Robert Pogue. “Vision and Revision: The Provisionary Essence of the Vita Nuova.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 174-185. Reprinted from Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 32, 1 (1990), 6-17.
Hawkins, Peter. “Divide and Conquer: Augustine in the Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 343-354. Reprinted from PMLA, 106, 3 (1991), 471-482.
Herzman, Ronald B. “Cannibalism and Communion in Inferno XXXIII.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 175-200. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 98 (1980), 53-78.
Herzman, Ronald B. “Dante and the Apocalypse.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 402-417. Reprinted from The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, edited by Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn (Ithaca, New York, and London: Cornell University Press, 1992), 398-413.
Herzman, Ronald. “Dante and Francis.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 386-404. Reprinted from Franciscan Studies, 42: 20 (1982), 96-114.
Hollander, Robert and Albert L. Rossi. “Dante’s Republican Treasury.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 363-386. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 104 (1986), 59-82.
Hollander, Robert. “Baranski’s Article (1991).” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 225-245. Reprinted from Dante’s Epistle to Cangrande (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1993), 75-95.
Hollander, Robert. “Dante’s Use of Aeneid I in Inferno I and II.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 56-77. Reprinted from Comparative Literature, 20 (1968), 142-156.
Hollander, Robert. “The Letters on Dante’s Brow (Purg. 9.1-12 and 21.22-24).” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America: posted January 31, 2002, at http://www.princeton.edu/~dante/ebdsa.
Uses the second of his titular passages to re-open the question of whether only Dante-character has the seven P’s inscribed on his forehead in Purgatory, or whether this is a sign of the purgatorial condition shared by all the realm’s inhabitants; after reviewing numerous glosses by earlier commentators, concludes that “at no point in the poem is there any evidence that we are meant to believe that anyone but Dante wears these signs carved upon the forehead by the warder of Purgatory.”
Hollander, Robert. “Tragedy in Dante’s Comedy.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 34-54. Reprinted from Sewanee Review, 91: 2 (1983), 240-260.
Iannucci, Amilcare A. “The Americanization of Francesca: Dante on Broadway in the Nineteenth Century.” Dante Studies, 120 (2002), 53-82.
Richly detailed study of stage and early cinematic productions based on Inferno 5 between 1853 and 1908.
Iannucci, Amilcare, “Beatrice in Limbo: a Metaphoric Harrowing of Hell.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 255-277. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 97 (1979), 23-45.
Jacoff, Rachel. “Our Bodies, Our Selves”: The Body in the Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 359-377. Reprinted from Sparks and Seeds: Medieval Literature and its Afterlife. Essays in Honor of John Freccero, edited by Dana E. Stewart and Alison Cornish (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000), 119-137.
Kallendorf, Craig, and Hilaire Kallendorf. “‘Per te poeta fui, per te cristiano’ (Purg. 22.73): Statius as Christian, from ‘Fact’ to Fiction.” Deutsches Dante-Jahrbuch 77 (2002), 61-72.
Kaske, Robert E. “Dante’s Purgatorio XXXII and XXXIII: A Survey of Christian History.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 309-330. Reprinted from University of Toronto Quarterly, 43 (1974), 193-214.
Kay, Richard. “Vitruvius and Dante’s Giants.” Dante Studies, 120 (2002), 17-34.
It has not hitherto been thought worthwhile to invoke the “canon of human proportions” derived from Vitruvius’ De architectura in connection with the giants in Inferno 31, because no complete copy of the work (as opposed to the summary in Vincent of Beauvais’ Speculum maius) was known to have been available in Dante’s Italy. Now, however, several such copies have been identified, and their attested presence in Dante’s cultural situation licenses the reading of the giants episode that Kay goes on to conduct.
Kirkham, Victoria. “A Canon of Women in Dante’s Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 36-61. Reprinted from Annali d’Italianistica, 7 (1989), 16-41.
Kleinhenz, Christopher. “Dante’s Towering Giants: Inferno XXXI.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 157-173. Reprinted from Romance Philology, 27 (1974), 269-285.
Kleinhenz, Christopher. “The Poetics of Citation: Dante’s Divina Commedia and the Bible.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 301-321. Reprinted from Italiana 1988 (1990), 1-21.
Lansing, Richard. “Dante’s Concept of Violence and the Chain of Being.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 143-163. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 99 (1981), 67-88.
Lansing, Richard. “Dante’s Intended Audience in the Convivio.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 27-34. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 110 (1992), 17-24.
Lansing, Richard. “Narrative Design in Dante’s Earthly Paradise.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 293-305. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 112 (1994), 101-113.
Lansing, Richard. “Piccarda and the Poetics of Paradox: A Reading of Paradiso III.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 307-322. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 105 (1987), 63?77.
Leo, Ulrich. “The Unfinished Convivio and Dante’s Rereading of the Aeneid.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 189-212. Reprinted from Medieval Studies, 13 (1951), 44-64.
Levine, Peter. “Keats against Dante: The Sonnet on Paolo and Francesca.” Keats-Shelley Journal, 51 (2002): 76-93.
Macdonald, Ronald. “Dante: Language and History.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 127-188. Reprinted from Places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987), 57-87.
Manescalchi, Romano. “‘La tua citta’ (Inf. VI, 49).” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America: posted August 2, 2002, at http://www.princeton.edu/~dante/ebdsa.
Argues that Ciacco’s significant use of the second-person singular possessive pronoun (rather than the first-person plural, given that both he and Dante-personaggio are Florentines) reflects “un tirarsi indietro polemico” on the character’s part, connecting him with subsequent condemnations of Florence by Farinata, Brunetto Latini, and the Florentines of Inferno 16. Manescalchi concludes, speaking of Ciacco, that “[l]o spessore del personaggio forse è superiore a quanto creduto sinora.”
Marchesi, Simone. “Dante, Virgilio (e Agostino) di fronte ai sette candelabri (Purgatorio 29.43-57).” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America: posted December 9, 2002, at http://www.princeton.edu/~dante/ebdsa.
Cites Augustine’s discussion of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit (De doctrina christiana 2. 7-9) as a previously unnoticed source that further illuminates the symbolic meaning of the seven candelabra in the procession depicted in Purg. 29.
Martinez, Ronald L. “Dante’s Forese, the Book of Job, and the Office of the Dead: A Note on Purgatorio 23.” Dante Studies, 120 (2002), 1-16.
Argues that “in the context of other passages of the Purgatorio regarding the importance of caring for the dead and mourning for loved ones, the pilgrim’s memory of grieving for Forese testifies to the poet-pilgrim’s own participation in offices of piety for the dead as they were practiced in late medieval Florence.”
Martinez, Ronald. “Mourning Beatrice: The Rhetoric of Threnody in the Vita Nuova.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 127-155. Reprinted from Modern Language Notes, 113: 1 (1998), 1-29.
Mazzeo, J. A. “Dante’s Conception of Poetic Expression.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 117-134. Reprinted from Romanic Review, 47 (1956), 241-258.
Mazzeo, J. A. “Light Metaphysics, Dante’s Convivio and the Letter to Can Grande della Scala.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 265-303. Reprinted from Traditio, 14 (1958), 191-229.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “Dante’s Literary Typology.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 177-195. Reprinted from MLN, 87: 1 (1972), 1-19.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “Opus restaurationis.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 92-143. Reprinted from Dante, Poet of the Desert: History and Allegory in the “Divine Comedy” (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), 14-65.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “Poetics of History: Inferno XXVI.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 7: 149-156. Reprinted from Diacritics, 2 (1975), 37-44.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “The Language of Poetry in the Vita Nuova.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 93-104. Reprinted from Rivista di studi italiani, 1: 1 (1983), 3-14.
McDougal, Stuart Y. “T. S. Eliot’s Metaphysical Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 375-399. Reprinted from Dante among the Moderns, edited by Stuart Y. McDougal (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1985), 57-81.
Metcalf, Allan A. “Dante and E. E. Cummings.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 240-252. Reprinted from Comparative Literature Studies, 7 (1970), 374-386.
Minio-Paluello, Lorenzo. 1980. “Dante’s Reading of Aristotle.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 35-54. Reprinted from The World of Dante: Essays on Dante and his Times, edited by Cecil Grayson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), 61-80.
Minnis, A. J. “The Transformation of Critical Tradition: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 345-367. Reprinted from Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism, c. 1100-c. 1375: The Commentary Tradition, edited by A. J. Minnis and A. B. Scott, with the assistance of David Wallace (New York and Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), 373-387.
Moevs, Christian. “Is Dante Telling the Truth?” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 103-111. Reprinted from Lectura Dantis, 18-19 (Spring-Fall, 1996), 3-11.
Moleta, Vincent. “The Vita Nuova as a Lyric Narrative.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 105-127. Reprinted from Forum Italicum, 12 (1978), 369-390.
Montano, Rocco. “Dante and Virgil.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 214-225. Reprinted from Yale Review, 60 (1971), 550-561.
Najemy, John. “Dante and Florence.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 206-225. Reprinted from The Cambridge Companion to Dante, edited by Rachel Jacoff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 80-99.
Newman, Francis X. “St. Augustine’s Three Visions and the Structure of the Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 146-168. Reprinted from MLN, 72: 1 (1967), 56-78.
Ordiway, Frank B. “In the Earth’s Shadow: The Theological Virtues Marred.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 233-248. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 100 (1982), 77-92.
Parker, Deborah. “Bernardino Daniello and the Commentary Tradition.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 49-59. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 106 (1988), 111-121.
Parker, Deborah. “The Medieval Roots of Commentary in the Renaissance.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 369-393. Reprinted from Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1993), 25-49.
Parker, Patricia. “Dante and the Dramatic Monologue.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 131-149. Reprinted from Stanford Literature Review, 2: 2 (1985), 165-183.
Pequigney, Joseph and Hubert Dreyfus. “Landscape and Guide: Dante’s Modifying of Meaning in the Inferno.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 83-115. Reprinted from Italian Quarterly, 5: 20–6: 21 (1961–1962), 51-83.
Pertile, Lino. “Dante Looks Forward and Back: Political Allegory in the Epistles.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 51-67. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 115 (1997), 1-17.
Pertile, Lino. “Dante’s Comedy beyond the Stilnovo.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 287-317. Reprinted from Lectura Dantis, 13 (1993), 47-77.
Peters, Edward M. “The Failure of Church and Empire: Paradiso 30.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 196-205. Reprinted from Mediaeval Studies, 34 (1972), 326-335.
Picone, Michelangelo. “Dante and the Classics.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 321-343. Reprinted from Dante: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Amilcare A. Iannucci (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), 51-73.
Pike, David. “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Dante’s descensus ad superos.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 90-125. Reprinted from Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997) 98-133.
Quint, David. “Epic Tradition and Inferno IX.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 71-78. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 93 (1973), 201-207.
Raffa, Guy P. “Dante’s Beloved Yet Damned Virgil.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 226-246. Reprinted from Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Inferno. The Indiana Critical Edition, edited by Mark Musa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), 266-285.
Raffa, Guy P. “Dante's Poetics of Exile.” Annali d'Italianistica, 20 (2002): 73-87.
Reeves, Marjorie. “Dante and the Prophetic View of History.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 332-348. Reprinted from The World of Dante: Essays on Dante and his Times, edited by Cecil Grayson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), 44-60.
Reynolds, Mary T. “Joyce’s Planetary Music: His Debt to Dante.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 192-219. Reprinted from Sewanee Review, 76 (1968), 450-77.
Richardson, Brian. “Editing Dante’s Commedia, 1472-1629.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 319-362. Reprinted from Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies, edited by Theodore J. Cachey Jr. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), 237-62.
Riobó, Carlos. “The Spirit of Ezra Pound's Romance Philology: Dante's Ironic Legacy of the Contingencies of Value.” Comparative Literature Studies, 39, No. 3 (2002): 201-22.
Robey, David. “Dante and Modern American Criticism: Post-structuralism.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 394-409. Reprinted from Annali d’Italianistica, 8 (1990), 116-31.
Roglieri, Maria Ann. “Twentieth-Century Musical Interpretations of the Anti-Music of Dante’s Inferno.” Italica 79 (2002), 149-68.
Roush, Sherry. “Dante as Piagnone Prophet: Girolamo Benivieni's ‘Cantico in laude di Dante’ (1506).” Renaissance Quarterly, 55, No. 1 (Spring, 2002): 49-80.
Schildgen, Brenda Deen. “Dante in India: Sri Aurobindo and Savitri.” Dante Studies, 120 (2002): 83-98.
Scott, John A. “Dante and Treachery.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 165-180. Reprinted from Dante Colloquia in Australia (1982-1999), edited by Margaret Baker and Diana Glenn (Adelaide: Australian Humanities Press, 2000), 27-42.
Scott, John A. “Dante’s Allegory of the Theologians.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 151-164. Reprinted from The Shared Horizon, edited by Tom O’Neill (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1990), 27-40.
Scott, John A. “Dante and Philosophy.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 266-285. Reprinted from Annali d’Italianistica, 8 (1990), 258-277.
Scott, John A. “The Unfinished Convivio as a Pathway to the Comedy.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 1-26. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 113 (1995), 31-56.
Seriacopi, Massimo. “Riflessioni politiche dantesche secondo due commenti inediti, del Trecento e del primo Quattrocento, al canto VI del Purgatorio.” Dante Studies, 120 (2002), 99-119.
Edits and introduces marginal and interlinear glosses from two Commedia manuscripts now in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence, one dated 1418 (Pluteo 40. 24) and one datable to the last quarter of the fourteenth century (Pluteo 90 superiore 130).
Shapiro, Marianne. “On the Role of Rhetoric in the Convivio.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 56-82. Reprinted from Romance Philology, 40, 1 (1986), 38-64.
Sicari, Stephen. “Reading Pound’s Politics”: Ulysses as Fascist Hero.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 351-374. Reprinted from Paideuma, 17: 2-3 (1988), 145-168.
Singleton, C. S. “Dante’s Allegory.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 108-116. Reprinted from Speculum, 25: 1 (1950), 78-86.
Singleton, C. S. “In Exitu Israel de Aegypto.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 67-90. Reprinted from 78th Annual Report of the Dante Society, 78 (1960), 1-24.
Singleton, C. S. “Allegory.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 91-107. Reprinted from Dante Studies 1. Commedia: Elements of Structure (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965), 1-17.
Spears, Monroe K. “The Divine Comedy of W.H. Auden.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 331-350. Reprinted from Sewanee Review, 90, 1 (1982), 53-72.
Thompson, Andrew. “Dante, the Risorgimento and the British: The Italian Background.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 92-120. Reprinted from George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural, and Political Influences from Dante to the “Risorgimento” (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 6-29.
Thompson, David. “Dante’s Virtuous Romans.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 345-362. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 96 (1978), 145-162.
Thompson, David. “Figure and Allegory in the Commedia.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 4: 165-175. Reprinted from Dante Studies, 90 (1972), 1-11.
Took, John. “Dante and the Confessions of Augustine.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 6: 170-192. Reprinted from Annali d’Italianistica, 8 (1990), 360-383.
Took, John. “Towards an Interpretation of the Fiore.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 1: 384-411. Reprinted from Speculum, 54 (1979), 500-527.
Triolo, Alfred A. “‘Matta Bestialità’ in Dante’s Inferno: Theory and Image.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 181-226. Reprinted from Traditio, 24 (1968), 247-292.
Verdicchio, Massimo. “Dante at the End of the Millennium.” Italian Quarterly, 39 (2002): 61-84.
Warner, Lawrence. “The Sign of the Son: Crusading Imagery in the Cacciaguida Episode.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America: posted September 16, 2002, at http://www.princeton.edu/~dante/ebdsa.
Disputing recent assertions that the Cacciaguida episode offers an “alternative” to crusading rhetoric, attempts to connect instances of such rhetoric with textual details of Paradiso in order to provide a more substantial context within which to read the episode.
Wenzel, Siegfried. “Dante’s Rationale for the Seven Deadly Sins (Purgatorio, XVII).” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 3: 227-231. Reprinted from Modern Language Review, 60 (1965), 529-533.
Wetherbee, Winthrop. “‘Poeta che mi guidi’: Dante, Lucan, and Virgil.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 2: 303-320. Reprinted from Canons, edited by Robert von Hallberg (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 131-148.
Wilhelm, James J. “Two Heavens of Light and Love: Paradise to Dante and to Pound.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 8: 295-311. Reprinted from Paideuma, 2 (1973), 175-191.
Williamson, Edward. “De beatitudine huius vite.” In Dante: The Critical Complex (q.v.), 5: 145-166. Reprinted from 76th Annual Report of the Dante Society, 76 (1958), 1-22.
Wilson, Robert. “Exile and Relegation in Dante and Ovid.” Annali d'Italianistica, 20 (2002): 55-72.
Alighieri, Dante. Inferno. Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander. New York: Doubleday, 2000. Reviewed by:
Dino S. Cervigni, Annali d'italianistica 20 (2002): 452-58.
Alighieri, Dante. Rime. 5 vols. Ed. Domenico De Robertis. Florence: Le Lettere, 2002. Reviewed by:
Paolo Cherchi, Annali d'italianistica 20 (2002): 451.
Applebaum, Stanley. Dante Alighieri: The “Divine Comedy”: Selected Cantos / La “Divina Commedia”: canti scelti (New York: Dover Publications, 2000). Reviewed by:
Fabian R. Alfie, in Italica, 79 (2002), 411-13.
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Olivia Holmes, Rivista di Studi Italiani, 20 (2002), 285-94.
Baranski, Zygmunt G. Dante e i segni. Saggi per una storia intellettuale di Dante Alighieri (Naples: Liguori, 2001). Reviewed by:
Mary Watt, in Italica, 79 (2002), 259-60.
Simon Gilson, in Modern Language Review, 97 (2002), 450-51.
Bemrose, Stephen. A New Life of Dante (Exeter, U.K.: University of Exeter Press, 2000). Reviewed by:
Guy P. Raffa, in Speculum, 77 (2002), 471-73.
Capello. Giovanni. La dimensione macrotestuale. Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca (Ravenna: Longo, 1998). Reviewed by:
Paul Colilli, in Italica, 79 (2002), 262-63.
Cornish, Alison. Reading Dante’s Stars (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000). Reviewed by:
Richard Kay, in Speculum, 77 (2002), 500-01.
The Dante Encyclopedia. Edited by Richard Lansing (New York: Garland, 2000). Reviewed by:
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Hawkins, Peter S. and Rachel Jacoff, eds. The Poets’ Dante: Twentieth Century Responses. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. Reviewed by:
Rachel Hadas, in “The Dante Perplex.” Arion 9.3 (2002): 114-19.
Pertile, Lino. La puttana e il gigante, Dal “Cantico dei Cantici” al Paradiso terrestre di Dante (Ravenna: Longo, 1998). Reviewed by:
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Raffa, Guy. Divine Dialectic: Dante’s Incarnational Poetry (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000). Reviewed by:
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Robey, David. Sound and Structure in the Divine Comedy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). Reviewed by:
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