American Dante Bibliography for 1956

Anthony L. Pellegrini

This bibliography is intended to include the Dante translations published in this country in 1956, and all Dante studies and reviews published in 1956 that are in any sense American. The latter criterion is now construed to include foreign reviews of Dante publications by Americans. 

 

Translations

Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. A Translation in terza rima, with Introduction and Arguments, by Glen L. Swiggett. Sewanee, Tenn.: The University Press of The University of the South, 1956.

Contains a preface stating the translator’s intention of rendering the poem “in simple modern English”; a dedicatory sonnet “To My Life”; a short introduction outlining the broad design of the poem; the translation in terza rima, with a sonnet prefixed to each cantica—one to Dante by the translator himself, the latter’s translation of Michelangelo’s sonnet to Dante, and Rossetti’s version of Oltre la spera che piùlarga gira (Vita Nuova, XLI); and ‘The Arguments” (pp. 547-567) summarizing the narrative of each cantica.

Dante Alighieri. “To Small Daylight: the Stony Sestina of Dante Alighieri.” (Al poco giorno e al gran cerchio d’ombra). Translated by Leslie FiedlerKenyon Review, XVIII (1956): 261-262.

A very faithful version, preserving the rhyme-scheme of the original, preceded by the Italian text and Rossetti’s version and by a critical interpretation and commentary, entitled “Green Thoughts in a Green Shade: Reflections on the Stony Sestina of Dante Alighieri.” (See below, under Studies.)

 

Studies

T. R. Adams. “A Rediscovered Dante Credo.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, XL (1956): 181-182.

Notices a Pseudo-Dante Credo recently “rediscovered” in the University of Pennsylvania Library and assigns to it the following imprint: [Florence, Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri between 1495 and 1500].

Alessandro Bausani. “Dante and Iqbal.” In Crescent and Green: A Miscellany of Writings on Pakistan (New York: Philosophical Library, 1956), 162-170. (Also London: Cassell, 1956 and New York: British Book Service, 1956.)

Discusses general parallels in the celestial journeys of Dante and the Pakistan poet Mohammed Iqbal (1877-1938) and certain differences stemming from the different spiritual orientation of Christianity and Islam, with the conclusion that the spirits of Dante and Iqbal may nevertheless “exist in perfect harmony.” Iqbal’s philosophical poem is entitled Asrár-i Khudí (“The Secrets of the Self”).

Luciano Anceschi. “Due lettere su Dante” [by Ezra Pound]. Nuova Corrente (Genoa), 5-6 (1956): 58-69.

Publishes two letters by Pound to R. L. Binyon on translating the Purgatorio.

Erich AuerbachMimesis. Il Realismo nella letteratura occidentale. [Translated from the German by Alberto Romagnoli and Hans Hinterhauser.] Con un saggio introduttivo di Aurelio Roncaglia Turin, Einaudi: 1956.

Italian translation of Professor Auerbach’s well-known work. (See above, pp. 41 and 56, and see below, under Reviews.)

C. B. Beall. “A Dantean Simile in Browning.” Modern Language Notes, LXXI (1956): 492-493.

Points out in Browning’s poem “Cleon” (1855) a parallel with Dante’s butterfly-image in Purgatorio X: 124-129, which has been de-Christianized, however, to enhance the dramatic irony.

Erich Berger. “Eine Vermutung, Stefan Georges Übertragungen aus der Göttlichen Komödie betreffend.” Monatshefte, XLVIII (1956): 345-359.

Submits, on the basis of chronology and on the comparative evidence of particular instances of identical or near-identical rendering in their respective translations from Dante, that the youthful Stefan George was led to the Italian original of the Divine Comedy by the German version of August Komisch, which must have reechoed in George’s mind later while doing his own translations from Dante.

Irma Brandeis. “Metaphor in The Divine Comedy.” Hudson Review, VIII (1956): 557-575.

Considers Eliot’s generalization that Dante’s similes and metaphors are few and simply designed solely to make us see more realistically what he saw on the poetic journey, is, though applicable to the Inferno,inadequate to one’s experience of the whole poem. From an examination of many examples, Dante’s imagination is found to operate on the particular level of each cantica developing the imagery in kind and depth with the pilgrim’s growth in understanding and vision. Thus, while the Inferno contains sharp, visual comparisons and contrast-stressing images, without further insight as to meaning, the Purgatorioi increasingly employs more complex comparisons that look beyond things as things and involve greater depth of interpretive meaning; the Paradiso, in turn, tends to leave behind concrete, sensuous likenesses in favor of more abstract or conceptual imagery.

William EbensteinGreat Political Thinkers. Second Edition Enlarged. New York: Rinehart, 1956.

Contains a chapter on Dante (pp. 238-256), consisting of an introductory essay to establish the historical setting, followed by excerpts from the De Monarchia in the F. C. Church translation. In the “Bibliographical Notes,” there is a selected bibliography, with commentary, for this chapter.

R. O. Evans. “Conrad’s Underworld.” Modern Fiction Studies, II (1956): 56-62.

Notes that in Heart of Darkness Conrad made extensive use of Dante’s Inferno.

Francis Fergusson. “ ‘Mito’ e scrupolo letterario.” Delta, N. S., 9 (1956): 7-16.

This is an Italian version (translated by Giulio Vallese) of the following item.

Francis Fergusson. “ ‘Myth’ and the Literary Scruple.” Sewanee Review, LXIV (1956): 171-185.

Discuses the difficulty of arriving at a general definition of “Myth,” because of the protean quality it has assumed at present; cites Malinowski’s basic classification of Myth—legends, folly or fairy tales, and religious myths; and gives examples of myths as brought to life poetically in the works of Valéry, Wagner, and Dante. The author finds that all the kinds of Myth and all the attitudes to Myth are handled masterfully by Dante and concludes that if we wish to consider the life of Myth in the poetry of our tradition, we must look to the vast and neglected lore in the Divine Comedy.

Leslie Fiedler. “Green Thoughts in a Green Shade: Reflections on the Stony Sestina of Dante Alighieri.” Kenyon Review, XVIII (1956): 240-262.

Gives a comprehensive interpretation of Al poco giorno e al gran cerchio d’ombra, exploring the rich possibilities of association, antithesis, and paradox in the poem, and including a critical running commentary to his own translation of the poem which follows, accompanied by the original Italian text and Rossetti’s version (See above, under Translations.)

Georges Florovsky. “Vladimir Solov’ev and Dante: the Problem of Christian Empire.” For Roman Jakobson: Essays on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, 11 October, 1956. Compiled by Morris Halle and others. The Hague: Mouton and Company, 1956. Pp. 152-160.

Directs attention to Dante’s probable impact upon the formation of the theocratic ideas of Vladimir Solov’ev (Russian idealistic philosopher, antic, and poet). Solov’ev was reading Dante when writing a “The Great Controversy” (in Rus’, 1883), and he made brief but very significant mention of Dante in La Russie et l’Eglise Universelle (Paris, 1889).

Joseph Frank. “Major Barbara—Shaw’s ‘Divine Comedy’.” PMLA, LXXI (1956): 61-74.

Contends, while admitting the enormous differences between Major Barbara and the Divine Comedy, that the Dantean perspective helps us to see a greater significance in Shaw’s play: Major Barbara, in ideological terms of the twentieth century, develops a pattern of sin, repentance, and salvation, is cosmic in scope, and has an inexorable internal logic

J. G. Fucilla. Saggistica letteraria italiana. Bibliografia per soggetti, 1938-1952. Florence: Sansoni Antiquariato, 1956. (“Contributi alla Biblioteca Italica diretta da Marino Parenti,” 12.)

On the model of his Universal Author Repertoire of Italian Essay Literature (New York, 1941), the author has indexed and classified by subject essays that appeared in Italian miscellaneous essay volumes between 1938 and l952. A useful and considerable list of studies and essays is included under “Dante” (pp. 103-106). (For reviews, see below.)

Mary Giffin. “Paradiso XXVI, 97.” Modern Language Notes, LXXI (1956): 30-33.

Suggests, as was also hinted at by Momigliano, that the image intended by un animal coverto is that of a caparisoned horse—a familiar figure in medieval processions and in medieval art.

G. H. Gifford. “A History of the Dante Society.” 74th Annual Report of the Dante Society (1956): 3-27.

Gives a comprehensive history of the Dante Society of America, with details of its various activities from the earliest informal beginnings and its organization in 1881 to its official incorporation in 1954.

Robert GittingsThe Mask of Keats: a Study of Problems. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1956.

Contains a study of “Keats’s Debt to Dante” (pp. 54), demonstrating, from the unique markings in Keats’s copy of Dante, the English poet’s deep indebtedness to the Inferno in Cary’s version. Keats’s Hyperionand The Fall of Hyperion, in particular, reveal influences of the Inferno in terms of atmosphere, imagery, and ground-pattern; and some of his finest sonnets, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, and other works also show influence of the Inferno. In two Appendices A and B, the author reproduces “Keats’s Markings in his Copy of the Inferno” and “Poems or Passages of Keats’s Poetry Influenced by his Reading of theInferno.”

Doris Grumbach. “Dante for Moderns.” Books on Trial, XIV (1956): 226-228, 275-276.

A brief general introduction to Dante for the lay reader, with an annotated list of available English translations and three illustrations.

J. E. Hankins. “The Pains of the Afterworld: Fire, Wind, and Ice in Milton and Shakespeare.” PMLA, LXXI (1956): 482-495.

Contains some comparisons with Dante’s Hell and Purgatory, and concludes that “the evidence controverts the popular impression that later writers on the Afterworld borrowed their descriptions primarily from Dante”: they frequently drew, rather, on a common tradition of other-worldly lore.

Werner JaegerHumanisme et Théologie. Traduit de l’anglais par H. D. Saffrey. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1956.

Contains brief but significant reference to Dante in the text and notes, stressing his intimate, Aristotelian-Thomistic relation to humanism, understood according to the ideal of human life as including the presence of the Divine. (For a brief critical comment on this point, see [Rocco Montano] “Schede e Appunti,” in Delta, N.S., Nos. 11-12 [1957], 106-107.) The original English version of Professor Jaeger’s work was published as Humanism and Theology (“The Aquinas Lecture, 1943”), under the Auspices of the Aristotelian Society of Marquette University (Milwaukee, Marquette University Press, 1943).

Bruno Maier. “Rassegna bibliografica: Dante.” Rassegna della Letteratura Italiana, Anno 60, Serie VII (1956): 348-353; 541-554.

Includes notices of varying length of many American Dante studies.

W. T. Marrocco. “The Enigma of the Canzone.” Speculum, XXXI (1956): 704-713.

Against Dante’s testimony in the De Vulgari Eloquentia, the author questions the suitability of the canzone of Dante’s time for a musical setting, because of its self-sufficient nature as a poetic form, its length and lofty tone, and especially the lack of any extant musical settings of the canzoni of the period. Of the two possible conclusions he proposes, viz., that the music for the canzone in Dante’s time was improvised, or that the canzone was no longer sung but recited to an improvised instrumental accompaniment, the author favors the latter.

Sister M. Maura. ‘Tourist in Dante.” Accent, XVI (1956): 191-192.

A poem in the modern manner expressing in three short stanzas, each inspired by a cantica of the Divine Comedy, certain impressions and reactions of a contemporary wayfarer on Dante’s poetic journey.

F. D. Maurino. “El Viaje de Cervantes y la Comedia de Dante.” Kentucky Foreign Language Quarterly, III (1956): 7-12.

Considers the Dantesque elements in Cervantes’ Viaje del Parnaso to be more substantial than they at first appears and submits that the humorous tone of the Viaje, with its satire and parody of contemporary poetasters, gains significantly in effect from the contrasting allusions to the lofty and austere Divine Comedy.

J. A. Mazzeo. “Plato’s Eros and Dante’s Amore.” Traditio, II (1956): 315-337.

Analyzes and compares in some detail the ideas on love in Plato’s Phaedrus and Symposium and in Dante’s Convivio and Divina Commedia. The similarities are striking, especially in the common pattern of a ladder of beauty as the means of ascension to the transcendent goal of Beauty, Goodness and Truth. For Plato, however, the poet and the lover, as also the philosopher and the prophets each take separate paths to the one goal, while for Dante, the poet, lover, and thinker are one. But where the Dantean pattern differs crucially from the Platonic is in the death, transformation and elevation of the lady and her retention to the very end of the process. Furthermore, whereas Plato’s eros provided only the movement from “here” up, the personal nature of Dante’s Christian God involved also the descent of His Love to the individual as grace, the key being the individualized beauty of the beloved as a reflection and lure of the Divine. Dante fused and synthesized elements of two traditions: the ladder of love and beauty to God of philosophical and theological speculation, and the image of the ennobling beloved of courtly love tradition.

J. A. Mazzeo. “Dante’s Conception of Poetic Expression.” Romanic Review, XLVII (1956): 241-258.

Considers Dante’s discussions of allegory in the Convivio (II, i) and in the letter to Can Grande (7 and 8) in the light of medieval theories of allegory and modern Dante criticism (according to Nardi and Singleton) and finds, with Nardi, that Dante confused the allegory of poets and the allegory of theologians to claim prophetic inspiration and depth of vision and to assert the importance of poetry as giving truth on a par with philosophy. Dante recognized the value of metaphor as a means by which theology (and philosophy) and poetry can both express truths that would otherwise be inexpressible. Thus, the Divine Comedy (especially the Paradiso) translates a vision of spiritual or intellectual light into metaphorical terms of sensible light which provide a gradual accommodation of the wayfarer’s vision to the ultimate reality in God. For this blend of light-metaphysics, poetic theory, and theology Dante seems to be considerably indebted to Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.

J. A. Mazzeo. “Dante’s Sun Symbolism.” Italica, XXXIII (1956): 243-251.

Discusses the symbol of the sun in the history of Western light-symbolism down to the light-metaphysics of Saint Augustine and other medieval thinkers, who adopted the Platonic metaphor of the Good as the sun of the intellect, and shows how Dante used the sun-symbol with full awareness of the complex significance it had acquired in the tradition.

Margaret Munsterberg. “An Early French Edition of Guerino.” Boston Public library Quarterly, VIII (1956): 108-111.

Describes a copy of the Decuchermoys version (1530) of Andrea da Barberino’s Guerino il Guerino il Meschino, summarizes the story, and discusses briefly, with some notice of past opinion, the similarities betweenGuerino’s visions of Saint Patrick’s Purgatory and Dante’s visions in the Inferno and the Purgatorio.

Lowry Nelson Jr. “The Rhetoric of Ineffability: Toward a Definition of Mystical Poetry.” Comparative Literature, VIII (1956): 323-336.

Focusing upon mystical poetry from a purely literary standpoint, the author discusses the paradox of expressing the ineffable with earth-bound works and outlines a general “rhetoric of the ineffable” abstracted from the means employed by certain poets, particularly Dante (“struggle with memory”) and Saint John of the (“suspension of sensation”), for communicating their mystical experiences.

H. R. PatchEl otro mundo en la literatura medieval. Traducción de J. H. Campos. Seguido de un Apéndice: La visión de trasmundo en las literaturas hispánicas, por Maria Rosa Lida de Malkiel. Mexico-Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1956.

Spanish translation of Patch’s well-known work, The Other World According to Descriptions in Medieval Literature (Cambridge, Mass., 1950), which contains ample reference to Dante’s visions of the Afterworld.

J. S. Patty. “Baudelaire’s Knowledge and Use of Dante.” Studies in Philology, LIII (1956): 599-611.

Submits, on examination of the evidence, that Baudelaire read only part of the Divine Comedy (probably no more than the Inferno) in the French version by Fiorentino, and that although he quoted fifty lines from this translation in the Salon de 1846 and alluded to Dante briefly and unimportantly some half-dozen times in his works, the only significant instance of Baudelaire’s use of Dante lies in a passage of “Femmes damnées: Delphine et Hippolyte,” which is markedly influenced by Inferno V. Thus, the effort to see in Baudelaire a “modern Dante” seems to be misguided and misinformed.

A. L. Pellegrini. “American Dante Bibliography for l955.” 74th Annual Report of the Dante Society (1956): 45-63.

With brief analyses.

R. H. Perrin. “Some Notes on Troubadour Melodic Types.” Journal of the American Musicological Society, IX (1956): 12-18.

Discusses, with examples, the more commonly encountered troubadour melodic types, names for which are abstracted from Dante’s authoritative De Vulgari Eloquentia: (1) oda continua (through composed); (2) pedes cum cauda—a a b; (3) frons cum versibus—a b b; (4) pedes cum versibus—a a b b. The author emphasizes that the classification of melodic types must not utilize designations of poetic types, since themelodic pattern was not governed by the type of lyric to which it was joined, but the same melodic type might serve a variety of poetic types (verscansotensosirventesrotruenge, and so forth).

E. B. Place. “Present Status of the Controversy over Francisco Imperial.” Speculum, XXXI (1956): 478-484.

Reviews, with particular reference to Lapesa, Woodford, ant Le Gentil, the controversy over Dante’s influence on Imperial; further argues his own previous contention that Imperial did not imitate Dante primarily, nor form a group of Dante imitators; and concluding, discerns a trend towards acceptance of this revised opinion.

Herbert Read. The Nature of Literature. New York: Horizon Press, 1956.

Includes a chapter on “The Nature of Metaphysical Poetry” (pp. 69-88), containing a discussion of Dante’s Commedia as the most obvious illustration of the nature of metaphysical poetry, defined by the author as a fusion of thought and emotion, or “the emotional apprehension of thought.” This work was originally published in London in 1938 as Collected Essays in Literary Criticism.

Denis de RougemontLove in the Western World. Translated by Montgomery Belgion. Revised and Augmented Edition. New York: Pantheon Books, 1956.

Refers to Dante in a short section on “Sicily, Italy, Beatrice, and Symbols” (pp. 177-180) and passim, in the context of his central thesis of “the inescapable conflict in the West between passion and marriage.” (First American edition: New York, 1940. Originality published in French as L’Amour et l’Occident, Paris, 1939.)

George SantayanaEssays in Literary Criticism. Selected and Edited, with an Introduction, by Irving Singer. New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1956.

Contains Santayana’s famous essay on Dante (pp. 30-52) of Three Philosophical Poets, as well as essays on “Platonic Love in Some Italian Poets” (pp. 94-111) and “Tragic Philosophy” (pp. 266-277), which are also concerned to some extent with Dante. The editor’s introductory essay on “Santayana as a Literary Critic” includes a discussion of Santayana’s attitude toward Dante. (For reviews, see below.)

H. H. Schless. “Chaucer and Dante: a Revaluation.” Dissertation Abstracts, XVI (1956): 16-75. (Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1956.)

From a contextual investigation of their literary relationships, the author finds that, beyond direct translations from Dante used chiefly for the content, Chaucer’s principal borrowing from Dante consisted of images of verbal or dramatic force, and these mostly from the beginnings and ends of Dante’s three cantiche, especially the opening cantos of the Inferno.

C S. Singleton. “Italian Literature: Three Masters, Three Epochs.” In World Literatures, ed. Joseph Ramenyi and others (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1956), 154-169.

Distinguishes in Italian literature three major epochs (or moods), epitomized in the following epithets: (1) “a journey to God” (Middle Ages), exemplified by Dante’s Comedy; (2) “nowhere to go” (Renaissance), exemplified by Boccaccio’s Decameron; and (3) “an outward journey to the infinite” (Romanticism), exemplified by Leopardi’s “L’infinito.” The discussion includes interesting interpretations of portions of theDivine Comedy.

C S. Singleton. “Virgil Recognizes Beatrice.” 74th Annual Report of the Dante Society (1956): 29-38.

Contends that in Inferno II, when Virgil addresses Beatrice in the words “O donna di virtà,” he recognizes her both literally as the Florentine woman sung by Dante in the Vita Nuova and the Rime and allegorically as the Lady Philosophy (or Contemplation or “created Sapientia”) of the Convivio in the ancient philosophical sense of the means of rising beyond the sub-lunar world of fortune, of change and impermanence, to the supra-lunar realm of changelessness and permanence. Virgil’s perspective is seen, moreover, to be limited by the pagan frame of thought, and thus, in the Purgatorio, at Beatrice’s appearance to Dante, including a still further, analogical, aspect from the Christian perspective, viz., that of “uncreated Sapientia” which is Christ, Virgil has already disappeared from the poem’s action.

G. C. SmithT. S. Eliot’s Poetry and Plays: a Study in Sources and Meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 1956.

Contains frequent reference, passim, to the Dantean element in Eliot’s works. Well indexed.

Leo Spitzer. “II ‘Detto del Gatto Lupesco’.” Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana, CXXXIII (1956): 1-24.

Contends that Guerrieri-Crocetti’s allegorical interpretation of the Detto goes too far and, offering a different one, refutes the parallels with the Divine Comedy also suggested by the latter.

Domenico Vittorini. “La realtà storica del Dolce Stil Nuovo.” Symposium, X (1956): 125-128.

Seeking to determine the specific value of the term dolce stil nuovo as used in Purgatorio XXIV, the author notes, from a strict theory standpoint, three zones in Dante’s works: (1) that of the Vita Nuova, where the poetic orientation is still doctrinal; (2) the theorizing of the De Vulgari Eloquentia; and (3) the fullness of Dante’s art in the Divine Comedy. He considers that the great lyric poetry of the youthful Dante and his contemporaries arose independently of the then doctrinal theory of poetry, and that the dolce stil nuovo concept, associating poetry with sentiment and moral perfection with perfect love, found conscious theoretic expression only later, in the Purgatorio.

E. H. Wilkins. “Return to Limbus” 74th Annual Report of the Dante Society (1956): 39-44.

On the conviction that the otherworldly setting, characters, and events of the Divine Comedy represented an actual and continuing reality in Dante’s consciousness, the author imagines, in the form of a fantasy in verse, Virgil’s return to Limbus, his account to the noble spirits of his journey with Dante to the Earthly Paradise, punctuated by their reactions and eager questioning, and an estimate by Virgil of Dante’s greatness.



Charles WilliamsThe Descent of the Dove: History of the Holy Spirit in the Church. Introduction by W. H. Auden. New York: Meridian Books, 1956. “Living Age Books,” 5.

Contains (Chapter VI) a brief interpretative commentary on Dante’s Vita Nuova and Divina Commedia in the context of the mediaeval consummation and in terms of “The Way of Affirmation of Images” as against “The Way of the Rejection of Images.” Focusing on “the effort in Christendom of the polarizing of sex-relationships towards God,” the author considers the Dante-Beatrice relationship according to the principle that each faithful soul constitutes a theophany. The work was originally published without Auden’s introduction, as The Descent of the Dove: A Short History of the Holy Spirit in the Church, by Longmans, Green and Company in 1939; the first American edition, by Pellegrini and Cudahy, appeared in 1950.

 

Reviews

Dante AlighieriThe Inferno. Translated by John Ciardi (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1954). Reviewed by:

A. L. PellegriniModern Language Quarterly XVII (1956): 183-186;

Ulrich WeissteinYearbook of Comparative and General Literature V (1956): 86-89.

Dante AlighieriPurgatory, translated by Dorothy L. Sayers (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1955). Reviewed by:

Colin HardieModern Language Review, LI (1956): 285-286;

P. G. RuggiersBooks Abroad (1956): XXX334.

Erich AuerbachMimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953). Reviewed by:

Mario FubiniGiornale storico della letteratura italiana, CXXXIII (1956): 280-281;

H. M. McLuhanRenascence (1956): IX, 99-100;

Charles MuscatineRomance Philology (1956): IX, 448-457.

Hans BaronCrisis of the Early Italian Renaissance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955). Reviewed by:

W. J. BouwsmaRenaissance News, IX (1956): 27-30;

W. K. FergusonSpeculum, XXXI (1956): 344-346;

M. P. GilmoreAmerican Historical Review, LXI (1956): 622-624;

Dayton PhillipsItalica, XXXIII (1956): 79-82;

Aldo ScaglioneRomance Philology, X (1956): 129-137;

Charles TrinkausJournal of the History of Ideas, XVII (1956): 426-432;

Nino ValeriNewberry Library Bulletin, IV (1956): 88-92;

Domenico VittoriniModern Language Journal, XL (1956): 107-108.

W. W. WilkinsonCatholic Historical Review, XLII (1956): 245-246.

R. P. BlackmurThe Lion and the Honeycomb (New York: Harcourt & Brace, 1955). Reviewed by:

            Joseph FrankPartisan Review, XXIII (1956): 265-273.

C. M. Bowra. “Dante and Arnaut Daniel” and “Dante and Sordello.” Speculum, XXVII (1952): 459-474, and Comparative Literature, V (1953): 1-15; respectively. Reviewed by:

            Marco Boni, in Studi Danteschi, XXXIII, Fasc. 2 (1956): 167-174.

C. M. BowraInspiration and Poetry (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1955). Reviewed by:

            Bernard GiovateComparative Literature, VIII (1956): 168-170;

I Classici italiani nella storia della critica. Opera in due volumi diretta da Walter Binni. I. Da Dante al Tasso. II: Da Galileo a D’Annunzio (Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1954-1956). Reviewed by:

            Domenico VittoriniItalica, XXXIII (1956): 301-304.

Wayne Conner. “Inferno, XVIII, 66 (‘femmine da conio’) and 51 (‘pungenti salse’).” Italica, XXXII (1955): 95-193. Reviewed by:

            C. F., Studi Danteschi, XXXIII, Fasc. 2 (1956): 174-175.

E. R. CurtiusEuropean Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (New York: Pantheon Books, 1953). Reviewed by:

            J. R O’DonnellThe Phoenix, X (1956): 29-31.

Francis FergussonDante’s Drama of the Mind (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953). Reviewed by:

            Yvonne BatardLes Lettres Romanes, X (1956): 206-208.

W. P. FriederichOutline of Comparative Literature: from Dante Alighieri to Eugene O'Neill, ed. Werner P. Friederich and David Henry Malone (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1954). Reviewed by:

Mary GaitherYearbook of Comparative and General Literature, V (1956): 65-66;

S. O. PalleskeComparative Literature, VIII (1956): 355-357;

J. VoisineRevue de Littérature Comparée, XXX (1956): 585-588.

J. G. FucillaSaggistica letteraria italiana (Florence: Sansoni Antiquariato, 1956). Reviewed by:

Giulio ValleseItalica, XXXIII (1956): 308-309.

Ewart LewisMedieval Political Ideas (New York: Knopf, 1954). Reviewed by:

            C. N. R. McCoyCatholic Historical Review, XLII (1956): 363.

Robert GittingsThe Mask of Keats (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1956). Reviewed by:

            [Anon.], Times Literary Supplement, London, (26 October 1956): 630.

Jacques MaritainCreative Intuition in Art and Poetry (New York: Noonday Press, 1955). (“Meridian Books,” M 8.) Reviewed by:

            R. T. F[lewelling]The Personalist, XXXVII (1956): 88-89.

Louis Rossi. “Dante and the Poetic Tradition in the Commentary of Benvenuto da Imola.” Italica, XXXII (1955): 215-223Reviewed by:

            C. F., Studi Danteschi, XXXIII, Fasc. 2 (1956): 178.

George SantayanaEssays in Literary Criticism (New York, Scribner’s Sons: 1956). Reviewed by:

            Alfred KazinN. Y. Times Book Review (25 November 1956): 5.

Dorothy L. SayersIntroductory Papers on Dante (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954). Reviewed by:

[Anon.], Yale Review, XLV (1956): xviii-xxii;

W. M. MillerItalica, XXXIII (1956): 83;

R. J. SchoeckThought, XXXI (1956): 462-464.

A. L. SellsThe Italian Influence in English Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955). Reviewed by:

H. H. BlanchardModern Language Notes, LXXI (1956): 515-518.

J. R CaldwellRomance Philology, X (1956): 46-49;

J. A. MazzeoRenaissance News, IX (1956): 25-27;

V. de Sola PintoItalian Studies, XI (1956): 134-136;

Mario PrazModern Philology, LIII (1956): 274-275;

Mario PrazShakespeare Quarterly, VII (1956): 248-250.

C. S. SingletonDante Studies 1. Commedia: Elements of Structure (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954). Reviewed by:

Gianfranco ContiniRomance Philology, IX (1956): 463-467;

R. J. SchoeckThought, XXXI (1956): 462-464.

Leo Spitzer. “The Addresses to the Reader in the Commedia.” Italica, XXXII (1955): 143-165. Reviewed by:

            C. F., Studi Danteschi, XXXIII, Fasc. 2 (1956): 175-176.

Leo Spitzer. “The ‘Ideal Typology’ in Dante’s De Vulgari Eloquentia.” Italica, XXXII (1955): 75-94. Reviewed by:

            C. F., Studi Danteschi, XXXIII, Fasc. 2 (1956): 176-177.

W. B. StanfordThe Ulysses Theme (New York: Macmillan, 1955). Reviewed by:

Thomas CuttClassical Journal, LII (1956): 143-144;

Richmond LattimoreThe Phoenix, X (1956): 78-80.

Wylie SypherFour Stages of Renaissance Style (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, “Anchor Books Original,” 1955). Reviewed by:

            Creighton GilbertJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, XIV (1956): 394-395;

            [Anon.], History of Ideas News Letter, II (1956): 43.

W. Y. TindallThe Literary Symbol (New York: Columbia University Press, 1955). Reviewed by:

William BlackburnSouth Atlantic Quarterly, LV (1956): 392-393;

Harry LevinModern Philology, LIV (1956): 53-55;

Edzia WeisbergNew Republic, CXXXIV (2 January 1956): 18-19.

Giuseppe ToffaninHistory of Humanism, translated by Elio Gianturco (New York: Las Americas Publishing Co., 1954). Reviewed by:

            W. W. WilkinsonThought, XXXI (1956): 145-146.

B. L. UllmanStudies in the Italian Renaissance (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1955). Reviewed by:

W. L GrantThe Phoenix, X (1956): 89-91;

W. J. OngClassical Journal, LI (1956): 188-189;

Giovanni PonteRassegna della Lettertura Italiana, Serie VII, Anno 60 (1956): 511-515.

Giorgio RadettiGiornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana, CXXXIII (1956): 426-436.

René WellekA History of Modern Criticism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955). Reviewed by:

Newton ArvinPartisan Review, XXIII (1956): 124-127;

Erich AuerbachRomanische Forschungen, LXVII (1956): 387-397;

Grover Cronin Jr., Thought, XXXI (1956): 148-152;

Northrop FryeVirginia Quarterly Review, XXXII (1956): 310-315;

C. T. HarrisonSewanee Review, LXIV (1956): 520-524;

Walter SilzGermanic Review, XXXI (1956): 307-309;

A. S. P. WoodhouseUniversity of Toronto Quarterly, XXV (1956): 507-510.

E. H. WilkinsA History of Italian Literature (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954). Reviewed by:

Umberto BoscoRomance Philology, IX (1956): 461-463;

A. M. GisolfiItalica, XXXIII (1956): 75-78;

Uberto LimentaniIl Ponte, XI (1956): 1711-1712;

J. E. ShawUniversity of Toronto Quarterly, XXV (1956): 511;

Roberto WeissModern Language Review, LI (1956): 140-141.