The Oxford Handbook of
Dante
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Contents
Introduction: Dante Unbound: A Vulnerable Life and the Openness of Interpretation
Manuele Gragnolati , Elena Lombardi , and Francesca Southerden
The Author
Justin Steinberg
Memory
Lina Bolzoni
Reading
Mary Carruthers
The Materiality of the Text and Manuscript Culture
Martin Eisner
The Manuscript Tradition, or on Editing Dante
Fabio Zinelli
Commentary (both by Dante and on Dante)
Luca Fiorentini
Digital Dante
Akash Kumar
The Classics
Zygmunt G. Baraski
Roman de la Rose
Antonio Montefusco
Troubadours
William Burgwinkle
Early Italian Lyric
Roberto Rea
Comic Culture
Fabian Alfie
Visual Culture
Gervase Rosser
Encyclopaedism
Franziska Meier
Medicine
Natascia Tonelli
Visual Theory
Simon Gilson
The Law
Diego Quaglioni
Politics
Tristan Kay
Philosophy and Theology
Pasquale Porro
Religion
Alessandro Vettori
Poetry
Elena Lombardi
Florence and Rome
Giuliano Milani
Civitas/Community
Elisa Brilli
The Mediterranean
Karla Mallette
The East
Brenda Deen Schildgen
Exile
Johannes Bartuschat
Travelling/Wandering/Mapping
Theodore J. Cachey Jr
Dantes Other Worlds
Peter S. Hawkins
Eschatological Anthropology
Manuele Gragnolati
Language
Heather Webb
The Mystical
Bernard McGinn
Bodies on Fire
Cary Howie
The Master Narrative and its Paradoxes
Nicol Crisafi
Conversion, Palinody, Traces
Jennifer Rushworth
The Lyric Mode
Francesca Southerden
Errancy: A Brief History of Dantes Ferm Voler
Teodolinda Barolini
Translations
Martin McLaughlin
Dante and the Performing Arts
Rossend Arqus Corominas
Dante on Screen
John David Rhodes
Modernist Dante
Daniela Caselli
Dante and the Shoah
Lino Pertile
Dante in Caribbean Poetics: Language, Power, Race
Jason Allen-Paisant
Queering Dante
Gary Cestaro
A Decolonial Feminist Dante: Imperial Historiography and Gender
Marguerite Waller
Fabian Alfie is a Professor of Italian at the University of Arizona, whose specialization is in the comic/satiric literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He is the author of Dantes Tenzone with Forese Donati: The Reprehension of Vice (2011). His most recent publications are the translations Folgore da San Gimignano and His Followers: The Complete Poems (2019), and with Aileen Astorga Feng, The Poetry of Burchiello: Deep-Fried Nouns, Hunchbacked Pumpkins and Other Nonsense (2017).
Jason Allen-Paisant is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Leeds. His research combines theatre and performance studies with poetics and critical theory. He is the author of Thtre dialectique postcolonial: Aim Csaire et Derek Walcott (2017), and of several essays and book chapters on theatre, poetics, and critical theory, with reference to the Caribbean and the black Atlantic.
Rossend Arqus Corominas is Professor of Italian Literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a member of the Institute of Medieval Studies, and co-director of the Dante e larte and Quaderns ditali academic reviews. He has led the international project Dante visualizzato. Carte ridenti from XIV to XVI centuries, of which he has co-edited volumes i, iii and v (Florence: Cesati, 2017, 2019, 2020). He has published the Spanish editions of Cavalcantis Poetry and Petrarchs Secretum and various articles on Dante, Cavalcanti, and Petrarch. He has coordinated, with Adriana Padoan, the Grande Dizionario Spagnolo/Italiano (2012, 2020).
Zygmunt Guido Baraski is Serena Professor of Italian Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and R. L. Canala Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. He has published extensively on Dante, medieval Italian literature, Dantes reception, and on modern Italian literature, film, and culture. He has recently published Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Literature, Doctrine, Reality (2020). He is the senior editor of Le tre corone.
Teodolinda Barolini is Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Columbia University. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Barolini served as fifteenth President of the Dante Society of America. She is the author of Dantes Poets (1984; Italian trans. 1993), The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante (1992; Italian trans. 2003), Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture (2006; Italian trans. 2012), and a commentary to Dantes lyric poetry (Italian ed. 2009, English ed. 2014). Barolini is Editor of Columbias Digital Dante website and has written the first online commentary to the Commedia (digitaldante.columbia.edu).
Johannes Bartuschat is Full Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Zurich. He specializes in Italian Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. His publications include essays on Dante, Brunetto Latini, Boccaccio, the history of Dante criticism, the relationship between literature and figurative arts, and the book Les Vies de Dante, Ptrarque et Boccace en Italie (XIV-XV sicles): Contribution lhistoire du genre biographique (2007). He has edited three issues of the Letture Classensi (38, 44, 45).
Lina Bolzoni is Professor Emeritus at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. She is a member of the Accademia nazionale dei Lincei and a Fellow of the British Academy. Among her publications, translated into several languages, are