American Dante Bibliography for 2007

 

[Originally published in Dante Studies, vol.126 (2008)]

 

 

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

 

Abulafia, David. “The Last Muslims in Italy.”  Dante Studies 126 (2007): 271-87.

 

Ambrosio, Francis J. Dante and Derrida: Face to Face. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.

 

Battistoni, Giorgio. “Dante and the Three Religions.” Dante Studies 126 (2007): 249-70.

 

Baur, Christine O’Connell. Dante’s Hermeneutics of Salvation: Passages to Freedom in the Divine Comedy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.

 

Bertman, Stephen. “Dante’s role in the genesis of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.” Dickens Quarterly 24.3 (Sept 2007): 167-75.

 

Boccassini, Daniela. “Falconry as a Transmutative Art: Dante, Frederick II, and Islam.” Dante Studies 126 (2007): 157-82.

 

Burman, Thomas E. “How an Italian Friar Read His Arabic Qur’an.” Dante Studies 126 (2007): 93-109.

 

Butler, George F. “Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae and Dante’s Vanquished Giants.” Italica 84.4 (2007): 661-78.

 

The Cambridge Companion to Dante. Ed. Rachel Jacoff. 2nd ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

 

Candido, Igor. “Il libro della Scrittura, il libro della Natura, il libro della Memoria: L’esegesi dantesca di C.S. Singleton fra tradizione giudaico-cristiana e trascendentalismo emersoniano.” MLN 122.1 (2007): 46-79.

 

Cantarino, Vicente. “Dante and Islam: History and Analysis of a Controversy [1965].” Dante Studies 126 (2007): 37-55.

 

Cardellino, Lodovico. “La gloria è ‘lo fondo de la … grazia’” (Par. 15.35-36). EBDSA, Paradiso: 28 July, 2007.

 

Cardullo, Bert. “Global Futurism, Divine Comedy, Greek Tragedy, and ... The Hairy Ape.” Eugene O’Neill Review 29 (2007): 7-20.

 

Coggeshall, Elizabeth A. “Dante, Islam, and Edward Said.” Telos 139 (2007): 133-51.

 

Corti, Maria. “Dante and Islamic Culture [1999].” Dante Studies 126 (2007): 57-75.

 

Cuzzilla, Anthony. “Time, Telos and Mysticism in the Divina Commedia.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 68 (2007): 182-83.

 

Demaray, John G. “Galileo, John Milton, Samuel Purchas and the New Cosmology.” In Italomania(s): Italy and the English Speaking World from Chaucer to Seamus Heaney, ed. Giuseppe Galigani (Florence: Edizioni Pagliai Polistampa, 2007), 205-218.

 

Dieke, Ikema. “Paradoxes of Carnality and the Moral Topography of Baraka’s The System of Dante’s Hell.” CLA Journal 50.3 (2007): 263-78.

 

Di Pede, Robert. “The Sexual Pilgrim, Transfiguration, and the World: The Poetics of Society in the Dantean Vision of Love.” Rivista di studi italiani 22.2 (2004): 1-21.

 

Enright, Nancy. “Dante’s Divine Comedy, Augustine’s Confessions, and the Redemption of Beauty.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 10.1 (2007): 32-56.

 

Flaxman, John. Flaxman’s Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2007.

 

Frank, Maria Esposito. “Dante’s Muhammad: Parallels between Islam and Arianism.” Dante Studies 126 (2007): 185-206.

 

Franke, William. “The Ethical Vision of Dante’s Paradiso in Light of Levinas.” Comparative Literature 59.3 (2007): 209-27.

 

Fugelso, Karl. “Defining the State in Commedia Miniatures: Pictorial Responses to Dante’s Condemnation of Florence.” Studies in Iconography 28 (2007), 171-207.

 

Fyler, John M. Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

 

Martínez Gázquez, José. “Translations of the Qur’an and Other Islamic Texts before Dante (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries).” Dante Studies 126 (2007): 79-92.

 

Havely, Nick R. Dante. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

 

Hawkins, Peter S. “Dante, St. Paul, and the Letter to the Romans.” In Medieval Readings of Romans, ed. William S. Campbell, Peter S. Hawkins, and Brenda Deen Schildgen (Edinburgh: Continuum/T&T Clark, 2007), 115-33.

 

Hawkins, Peter S. “Still Going Strong: Dante Now.” Christianity and Literature 56.3 (2007): 489-504.

 

Hawkins, Peter S. “Poema Sacro.” Annali d’Italianistica 25 (2007): 177-201.

 

Hede, Jesper. Reading Dante: The Pursuit of Meaning. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.

 

Heller, Michael. “Dantean Reznikoff.” Talisman 34 (2007): 35-41.

 

Hollander, Robert. “Inferno 27.21: ‘Istra ten va, più non t’adizzo’: A New Hypothesis.” EBDSA: Inferno, 5 May 2007.

 

Hollander, Robert. “The Sibyl in Paradiso 33.66 and in De civitate Dei 18.23.” EBDSA: Paradiso, 4 October 2007.

 

Hustis, Harriet. “Falling for Dante: The Inferno in Albert Camus’s La Chute.” Mosaic 40.4 (2007): 1-16.

 

Jongeneel, Els. “Art and Divine Order in the Divina Commedia.” Literature and Theology 21.2 (2007): 131-43.

 

Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr. “Boethius, Dante, and Teaching Aspects of Chaucer’s Tragedy.” In Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems, ed. Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2007), 43-49.

 

Kleinhenz, Christopher. “Perspectives on Intertextuality in Dante’s Divina Commedia.” Romance Quarterly 54.3 (2007): 183-94.

 

Lombardi, Elena. The Syntax of Desire: Language and Love in Augustine, the Modistae, Dante. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.

 

Maldina, Nicolò. “Api e vespe nella Commedia: Osservazioni sul bestiario dantesco.” L’Alighieri 48.1 (2007): 121-42.

 

Mallette, Karla. “Muhammad in Hell.” Dante Studies 126 (2007): 207-224.

 

Marchesi, Serena. “‘Go, Say This, Pilgrim Dear!’: Strutture attoriali dantesche in ‘Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli’ di Robert Browning.” Strumenti critici 113.1 (2007): 49-66.

 

Marchesi, Simone. “Distilling Ovid: Dante’s Exile and Some Metamorphic Nomenclature in Hell.” In Writers Reading Writers: Intertextual Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Literature in Honor of Robert Hollander, ed. Janet Levarie Smarr (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007), 21-39.

 

Matt, Andrew John. “The Poetics of Dreaming: Virgil, Ovid, and Dante.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 68 (2007): 563.

 

Manganiello, Dominic. “Dante and Wendell Berry’s Modern Book of Memory.” In Memory and Medievalism, ed. Karl Fugelso (Cambridge, England: Brewer, 2006), 115-125.

 

Minear, Erin Kathleen. “Eternity and the Productions of Time: Musical Description in Shakespeare, Dante, and Milton.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 68 (2007): 563.

 

Olson, Kristina Marie. “The Afterlife of Dante’s Commedia in Boccaccio’s Decameron and Esposizioni.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 67 (2006): 3813.

 

Pertile, Lino. “Dante, Ulisse e l’altro viaggio (Inf. 1.91).” EBDSA: Inferno, 12 June 2007.

 

Pertile, Lino. “Virgil Is Not Angry: A Note on Inferno 27.21.” EBDSA: Inferno, 13 December 2007.

 

Peterson, Thomas E. “Ovid and Parody in Dante’s Inferno.” Annali d’Italianistica 25 (2007): 203-16.

 

Pollack-Pelzner, Daniel. “Reversionary Company: Keats, Homer, and Dante in the Chapman Sonnet.” Keats-Shelley Journal 56 (2007): 39-49.

 

Raffa, Guy P. Danteworlds: A Reader’s Guide to the Inferno. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

 

Regn, Gerhard. “Double Authorship: Prophetic and Poetic Inspiration in Dante’s Paradise.” MLN 122.1 (January, 2007), 167-85.

 

Rossini, Antonio. “Dante e la parodia.” Rivista di Studi Italiani 22.2 (2007): 22-46.

 

Schildgen, Brenda Deen. “Philosophers, Theologians, and the Islamic Legacy in Dante: Inferno 4 versus Paradiso 4.” Dante Studies 126 (2007): 113-32.

 

Shepard, Laurie. “Appropriating Dante: Florentine Humanist Readers and the Divine Comedy.” Forum Italicum 41.1 (2007): 240-245.

 

Steinberg, Justin. Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval Italy. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.

 

Stone, Gregory B. “Dante and the Falasifa: Religion as Imagination.” Dante Studies 126 (2007): 133-56.

 

Tolan, John. “Mendicants and Muslims in Dante’s Florence.” Dante Studies 126 (2007): 227-48.

 

Ziolkowski, Jan M. “Introduction to Dante and Islam.” Dante Studies 126 (2007): 1-34.

 

 

 

TRANSLATIONS

 

Alighieri, Dante. Paradiso. Translated by Robert and Jean Hollander. New York: Doubleday, 2007.

 

Alighieri, Dante. Inferno. Translated by Tom Simone. Newburyport, Mass.: Focus Publishing, 2007.

 

 

REVIEWS

 

Alighieri, Dante. Paradiso. Tr. Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander. Ed. Robert Hollander. New York: Doubleday, 2007. Reviewed by:

               Eric Ormsby, New Criterion 26.3 (2007): 73-77.

 

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

Steven Botterill, Renaissance Quarterly 60 (2007): 890-91.

 

Cox, Catherine S. The Judaic Other in Dante, the Gawain Poet, and Chaucer. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. Reviewed by:

Lisa Lampert-Weissig, The Modern Language Review 102 (2007): 194-95.

 

Dameron, George W. Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Reviewed by:

               Peter S. Hawkins, Christianity and Literature 56.3 (2007): 489-504.

 

Dante and the Franciscans. Ed. Santa Casciani. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Reviewed by:

Giuseppe C. Di Scipio, Renaissance Quarterly 60 (2007): 1307-09.

 

Gragnolati, Manuele. Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. Reviewed by:

               Francesco Ciabattoni, MLN 122.1 (2007): 211-12.

Warren Ginsberg, Speculum 82 (2007): 191-93.

               Peter S. Hawkins, Christianity and Literature 56.3 (2007): 489-504.

David Ruzicka, The Modern Language Review 102 (2007): 249-51.

 

Gilson, Simon. Dante and Renaissance Florence. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Reviewed by:

Laurie Shepard, Forum Italicum 41.1 (2007): 240-45.

 

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

               Raymond Cormier, Speculum 82 (2007): 735-36.

 

Miller, James, ed. Dante & the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of Transfiguration. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005. Reviewed by:

               Peter S. Hawkins, Christianity and Literature 56.3 (2007): 489-504.

 

Moevs, Christian. The Metaphysics of Dante’s Comedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Reviewed by:

               Warren Ginsberg, Speculum 82 (2007): 467-70.

 

Scott, John A. Understanding Dante. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Reviewed by:

               Peter S. Hawkins, Christianity and Literature 56.3 (2007): 489-504.

 

Watt, Mary Alexandra. The Cross that Dante Bears: Pilgrimage, Crusade, and the Cruciform Church in the Divine Comedy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. Reviewed by:

               Kyle Hall, Italica 84 (2007): 859-61.

 

 

ADDENDUM FOR 2006

 

Cook, Christopher D. Dante at Illinois. Urbana, Ill.: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 2006. v, 35 pp.