American Dante Bibliography for 2006

 

[Originally published in Dante Studies, vol.125 (2007)]

 

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. The listing of reviews is necessarily selective, especially in the case of studies bearing only peripherally upon Dante. Items not recorded in the bibliographies for previous years are entered as addenda to the current list; items from 2006 not identified in time for inclusion here will be added in future issues of the journal. I extend my thanks to Jean Boli for her invaluable assistance.

 

 

 

STUDIES

 

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

 

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.

 

Balsamo, Gian. “Figural Literalism: Metaphor, Altruism, and 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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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. 

              

Cook, Eleanor. Enigmas and Riddles in Literature. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 312 p.

 

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.

 

Gambera, Disa. “Women and Walls: Boccaccio’s Teseida and the Edifice of Dante’s Poetry.” In Thomas C. Stillinger and F. Regina Psaki, eds. Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism. Chapel Hill, NC: 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. Dante: A Brief History. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2006. xxvi, 194 pp.

 

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

 

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. 

 

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

 

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

              

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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. 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. Houndmills, 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.

 

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, England: 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.

 

Havely, Nick. Dante and the Franciscans: Poverty and the Papacy in the Commedia. Cambridge, England: 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.

 

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.

 

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.

              

 

 

ADDENDUM FOR 2005

 

Lovell, Alison Baird. “The Shadow of Dante in Maurice Scève’s ‘Délie’.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 66 (2005): 2948-49. City University of New York, 2005.

 

Tambling, Jeremy. “Thinking Melancholy: Allegory and the Vita Nuova.” Romanic Review 96 (2005): 85-105.

 

Vitullo, Marina. “The Heritage of the ‘Song of Songs’ in Three Italian Poets of the Thirteenth Century (Giacomo da Lentini, Guido Guinizzelli and Dante Alighieri).” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 66 (2005): 4383. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2005.