DANTE THE LYRIC AND ETHICAL POET
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Dante the Lyric and Ethical Poet
Dante lirico e etico
Edited by Zygmunt G. Baraski and Martin McLaughlin
First published 2010
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Contents
CLAIRE E. HONESS
PAOLO FALZONE
ROBIN KIRKPATRICK AND GEORGE CORBETT
MANUELE GRAGNOLATI
JUSTIN STEINBERG
CLAUDIO GIUNTA
CLAUDIA VILLA
LINO PERTILE
PAOLA ALLEGRETTI
MICHAEL CAESAR
JOHN LINDON
Guide
IN MEMORY OF OUR FRIENDS
AMIL, FRANCESCO AND MICHELANGELO
Zygmunt G. Baraski and Martin McLaughlin
This, the fifth volume of conference proceedings, brings to a close, after over fifteen years, the activities of the International Dante Seminar. The principal aim of the Seminario has been to foster dialogue between Dantists belonging to different national traditions; it is for others to judge the extent to which our efforts can be said to have been successful. However, with the steady recent growth of international collaboration between Dantists, as evidenced most notably by the excellent efforts of the William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame and of the Centre for Dante Studies at the University of Leeds, it had been felt for a while that our contribution was becoming increasingly unnecessary.
The volume is dedicated to the memory of three colleagues, Amilcare Iannucci, Francesco Mazzoni and Michelangelo Picone, each of whom, in his own distinct manner, made a substantial contribution to the development and operation of the Seminar. It is with great sadness that we mark their passing.
Regular readers of our proceedings may be surprised by the fact that the present volume, unlike its four predecessors, does not include edited versions of the discussions which followed the papers collected herein. As at the previous conferences, debates were lively, informative and collegiate. Unfortunately, on account of technical problems beyond our control, the recordings were of very poor quality, making transcription extremely difficult. We apologize for this impoverishment of our collection, but at the same time we would like to record our profound gratitude to Dr Tristan Kay and Dr Franca Pellegrini for their considerable efforts in the transcription process.
The conference and the present volume would not have been possible without the generous financial support of the following institutions: the British Academy; the Department of Italian, Cambridge University; the Devers Dante Fund, Notre Dame University; the Italian Cultural Institute, London; The Italianist; the Modern Humanities Research Association; the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford University; Princeton University; the Simpson Program in Medieval Studies, University of Mary Washington; the Societ Dantesca Italiana; the Society for Italian Studies; the Paget Toynbee Fund, Oxford University; the University of Western Australia. Our heartfelt thanks go to them all.
We owe a debt of a different kind to the Editorial Board of Legenda for accepting the conference proceedings in its prestigious series, and in particular to Legendas Managing Editor, Graham Nelson, for his help and patience throughout. The International Dante Seminar could not have found a better and more understanding final collaborator.