American Dante Bibliography for 2009
Richard Lansing
Translations and Editions
Alighieri, Dante. Inferno. Translated by Stanley Lombardo. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 2009.
Alighieri, Dante. Rime giovanili e della Vita nuova. Edited by Teodolinda Barolini. Notes by Manuele Gragnolati. Milan: RCS Libri, 2009.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Boccaccio’s Expositions on Dante’s Comedy. Translated by Michael Papio. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Studies
Alfie, Fabian. “Il duro camo: Poetics and Politics in Purgatorio 14.” Dante Studies 127 (2009): 5–35.
Ardissino, Erminia. Tempo liturgico e tempo storico nella Commedia di Dante. Monumenta Studia Instrumenta Liturgica 47. Vatican City: Editrice Vaticana, 2009.
Arduini, Beatrice. “Il Convivio: Da progetto incompiuto a icona editoriale.” PhD diss., Indiana University–Bloomington, 2008. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 69.7 (2009): 2707.
Ascoli, Albert Russell. “Auerbach Among the Epicureans: Dal canto X dell’Inferno alla VI Giornata del Decameron.” Moderna 11 (2009): 135–52.
Ascoli, Albert Russell. “Blinding the Cyclops: Petrarch after Dante.” In Barański, Cachey, and Yocum, Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition, 114–73.
Audeh, Aida. “Gustave Doré’s Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy: Innovation, Influence, and Reception.” In Defining Medievalism(s) II, edited by Karl Fugelso. Studies in Medievalism 18 (Cambridge: Brewer, 2009), 125–64.
Barański, Zygmunt G. “Petrarch, Dante, Cavalcanti.” In Barański, Cachey, and Yocum, Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition, 50–113.
Barański, Zygmunt G., Theodore Cachey Jr., and Demetrio S. Yocum. Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition. William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies 10. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009.
Barbarese, J. T. “Four Translations of Dante’s Inferno.” Sewanee Review 117.4 (2009): 647–55.
Barolini, Teodolinda. “‘Only Historicize’: History, Material Culture, and the Future of Dante Studies.” Dante Studies 127 (2009): 37–54.
Barolini, Teodolinda. “Petrarch as the Metaphysical Poet Who Is Not Dante: Metaphysical Markers at the Beginning of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (RVF 1–21).” In Barański, Cachey, and Yocum, Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition, 195–225.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Boccaccio’s Expositions on Dante’s Comedy. Translated, with introduction and notes by Michael Papio. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Boccassini, Daniela. “‘Ego tanquam centrum circuli’: La Vita nuova, percorso di reminiscenza e psicocosmogramma.” Italian Culture 27.1 (2009): 5–23.
Bucklin, Paul. “Ne plus ultra? Rereading Magnanimity in Dante Alighieri’s Convivio and Divine Comedy and Courage in Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered.” PhD diss., New York University, 2009. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010 Jan; 70 (7): 2505. New York U, 2009.
Cachey, Theodore, Jr. “Between Petrarch and Dante: Prolegomenon to a Critical Discourse.” In Barański, Cachey, and Yocum, Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition, 3–49.
Candido, Igor, and Francesco Caruso, “Preface: In Honor of J. Freccero: Fifty Years with Dante and Italian Literature,” MLN 124.5 [Supplement] (2009): 1–6.
Carrano, Gabriella. “La trasfigurazione dell’Ulisse omerico e dantesco: Metamorfismo e fascino di un mito.” Forum Italicum 43.2 (2009): 521–30.
Casagrande, Gino. “Le teofanie di Paradiso XXXIII.” Studi Danteschi 74 (2009): 199–224.
Cervigni, Dino. From Divine to Human: Dante’s Circle vs. Boccaccio’s Parodic Centers. Bernardo Lecture Series 16. Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009.
Cherchi, Paolo. “In Memoriam Michelangelo Picone (1942–2009).” Dante Studies 127 (2009): 165–70.
Clogan, Paul Maurice. “Dante and Statius: Revisited.” Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture 35 (2009): 77–101.
Collins, Michael. “‘If the King of the Universe Were a Friend’: Amity and Communication in Dante and Derrida.” Modern Philology 106.3 (2009): 427–64.
Cornish, Alison. “Sons and Lovers: Guido in Paradise.” MLN 124.5 [Supplement] (2009): 51–69.
De Benedictis, Raffaele. “De vulgari eloquentia: Dante’s Semiotic Workshop.” Italica 86.2 (2009): 189–211.
Deen Schildgen, Brenda. “Poetry and Theology in the Fourteenth Century.” Religion and Literature, 41.2 (2009): 136-42.
Falconer, Rachel. “Underworld Portmanteaux: Dante’s Hell and Carroll’s Wonderland in Women’s Memoirs of Mental Illness.” In Alice beyond Wonderland: Essays for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Cristopher Hollingsworth, 3–22. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009.
Forni, Pier Massimo. “Dante between Antiquity and Modernity.” Dante Studies 127 (2009): 55–58.
Foust, Lee. “Dante’s Commedia and the Poetics of Christian catabasis.” PhD diss., New York University, 2008. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 69.8 (2009): 3142.
Franke, William. “Dante’s Inferno as Poetic Revelation of Prophetic Truth.” Philosophy and Literature 33.2 (2009): 252–66.
Franke, William. Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009. xiv, 211 p.
Freccero, John. “The Portrait of Francesca: Inferno V.” MLN 124.5 [Supplement] (2009): 7–38.
Fugelso, Karl. “Medievalism from Here.” Studies in Medievalism 17 (2009): 86–91.
Giusti, Francesco. “Le parole di Orfeo: Dante, Petrarca, Leopardi, e gli archetipi di un genere.” Italian Studies 64.1 (2009): 56–76.
Gross, Karen Elizabeth. “Scholar Saints and Boccaccio’s Trattatello in laude di Dante.” MLN 124.1 [Supplement] (2009): 66–85.
Hartnett, Daniel Elisha. “The Political and Social Uses of Dante in Fifteenth-Century Iberian Court Culture.” PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2009. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 70.6 (2009): 2055.
Haule, James. “Reading Dante, Misreading Woolf: New Evidence of Virginia Woolf’s Revision of the Years.” In Woolf Editing/Editing Woolf, edited by Eleanor McNees and Sara Veglahn, 232–44. Clemson, S.C.: Clemson University Digital, 2009.
Hawkins, Peter S. “Dante’s Rahab.” MLN 124.5 [Supplement] (2009): 70-80.
Hollander, Robert. “Another Stab at Beatrice's spade.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, January 9, 2009 (with addendum, February 5, 2009).
Hollander, Robert. “Dante’s Paradiso as Philosophical Poetry.” Italica 86.4 (2009): 571–82.
Hollander, Robert. “Due recenti contributi al dibattito sull'autenticità dell'Epistola a Cangrande.” Letteratura italiana antica 10 (2009), 541-52.
Hollander, Robert. “Canti XXIV-XXV: La settima zavorra (tra Virgilio e il villanello),” in Esperimenti danteschi: Inferno 2008, ed. S. Invernizzi (Genoa-Milan: Marietti, 2009), 175-201.
Hollander, Robert. “Is 'The Verse' Milton's Response to the Epistle to Cangrande?” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, April 6, 2009.
Hollander, Robert. “Response to Ambrogio Camozzi: ‘Una possibile fonte per l’antropofagia cranica, le cagne, le lune e il sogno di Ugolino’” (EBDSA, December 19, 2008), Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, January 21, 2009.
Hollander, Robert. “The World-historical Meaning of Inferno 1.1 as Confirmed by Paradiso 9.40.” Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, November 22, 2009.
Jacoff, Rachel. “‘Diligite Iustitiam’: Loving Justice in Siena and Dante’s Paradiso.” MLN 124.5 [Supplement] (2009): 81–95.
Karampetsos, E. D. Dante and Byzantium. Boston: Somerset Hall Press, 2009.
Kleinhenz, Christopher. “Dante Alighieri and Medieval Cultural Traditions: Introduction.” Dante Studies 127 (2009): 1–3.
Kleinhenz, Christopher. “Dante’s Views on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Perspectives from the New (Fourteenth) Century.” In Poetry, Place, and Gender: Studies in Medieval Culture in Honor of Helen Damico, edited by Catherine E. Karkov, 302–318. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, 2009.
Lansing, Richard. “American Dante Bibliography for 2008.” Dante Studies 127 (2009): 171–83.
Lansing, Richard. “The Pageantry of Dante’s Verse.” Dante Studies 127 (2009): 59–80.
Livanos, Christopher. “Dante’s Monsters: Nature and Evil in the Commedia.” Dante Studies 127 (2009): 81–92.
Martinez, Ronald L. “‘L’amoroso canto’: Liturgy and Vernacular Lyric in Dante’s Purgatorio.” Dante Studies 127 (2009): 93–127.
Martinez, Ronald L. “Places and Times of the Liturgy from Dante to Petrarch.” In Barański, Cachey, and Yocum, Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition, 320–70.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “Dante’s Poetics of Births and Foundations.” Dante Studies 127 (2009): 129–46.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “Literature and Religion: The Error of Narcissus.” Religion and Literature, 41.2 (2009): 29-35.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “Petrarch’s Dialogue with Dante.” In Barański, Cachey, and Yocum, Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition, 177–94.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “Europe and Rome: spectacle and geometry of justice, Paradiso XVIII–XX.” In Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee, edited by Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager, 125–44. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “Fondazioni e nascita.” Etica e teologia nella Commedia di Dante: Atti del Seminario Internazionale, Torino, 5–6 Ottobre 2006, edited by Erminia Ardissino, 47–64. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2009.
McMenamin, James F. “The Sequence ‘Beginning-Middle-End,’ Dante and Petrarch.” PhD diss., Harvard University, 2009. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 69.10 (2009): 3971.
Moevs, Christian. “Subjectivity and Conversion in Dante and Petrarch.” In Barański, Cachey, and Yocum, Petrarch and Dante, 226–59.
Noakes, Susan J. “Franciscan Economic Discourse in Dante’s Paradiso 10–13: The Semantics of ‘Valor.’” Dante Studies 127 (2009): 147–63.
Olson, Kristina Marie. “Resurrecting Dante’s Florence: Figural Realism in the Decameron and the Esposizioni.” MLN 124.1 [Supplement] (2009), 45–65.
Papio, Michael. Boccaccio’s Expositions on Dante’s Comedy. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Parker, Deborah. “Guidelines for the Evaluation of Digital Humanities Projects.” ADFL Bulletin 41.1 (2009): 67–75.
Perkowska, Magdalena. “Dante en Saer: El viaje de Ulises como metáfora del riesgo cognoscitivo en La pesquisa.” Romance Studies 27.2 (2009): 145–56.
Phillips, Philip Edward. “Adaptations of Dante’s Commedia in Popular American Fiction and Film.” Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 17.2 (2009): 197–212.
Pollack, Tamara. “Light and Mirror in Dante’s Paradiso: Faith and Contemplation in the Lunar Heaven and the Primo Mobile.” PhD diss., Indiana University, 2008. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 69.8 (2009): 3145–46.
Pollina, Vincent. “Syntax, Confession, and Creation: Reflections on Dante, Augustine, and Saussure.” MLN 124.5 [Supplement] (2009): 96–114.
Pötters, Wilhelm. “The ‘Root’ of the Tree of Knowledge: Symbols and Icons in Dante’s Divine Comedy.” Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 9 (2009): 313–67.
Raffa, Guy P. The Complete Danteworlds: A Reader’s Guide to the Divine Comedy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Reeves, Eileen. “From Dante’s Moonspots to Galileo’s Sunspots.” MLN 124.5 [Supplement] (2009): 190–209.
Rolfe, Sarah Melanie. “Michelangelo Reading Landino? The ‘Devil’ in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment,” Quaderni d’italianistica, 30.2 (2009): 19-38.
Schnapp, Jeffrey T. “Touch and Transport in the Middle Ages.” MLN 124.5 [Supplement] (2009): 115–36.
Singleton, Charles S. “Why Dante.” MLN 124.5 [Supplement] (2009): 39–50.
Steinberg, Justin. “Dante Estravagante, Petrarca Disperso, and the Spectre of the Other Woman.” In Barański, Cachey, and Yocum, Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition, 263–289.
Sturm-Maddox, Sara. “Dante, Petrarch, and the Laurel Crown.” Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition, edited by Zygmunt G. Barański and Theodore J. Cachey Jr., 290-319. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009.
Todorović, Jelena. “Reading Cultures in Dante’s Vita Nova.” PhD diss., Indiana U, 2009.
Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010 June; 70 (12): 4672-4673.
Ureni Paola. “Memoria e pensiero in Calvacanti e Dante, Tozzi e Gadda.” PhD diss., New York University, 2009. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010 June; 70 (12): 4673.
Reviews
Acquaviva, Paolo, and Jennifer Petrie, eds. Dante and the Church: Literary and Historical Essays. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. Reviewed by:
Andrew Matt, Catholic Historical Review 95.1 (2009): 127–29.
Ariani, Marco, ed. La metafora in Dante. Florence: Leo Olschki Editore, 2009. Reviewed by:
Enrico Minardi, Annali d’Italianistica 27 (2009): 412-15.
Ascoli, Albert Russell. Dante and the Making of a Modern Author. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Reviewed by:
Warren Ginsberg, Annali d’Italianistica 27 (2009): 416–18.
Antonio Rossini, Quaderni d’italianistica 30.2 (2009).
Madison U. Sowell, Renaissance Quarterly 62.1 (2009): 201–3.
Barnes, John C., and Jennifer Petrie. Dante and the Human Body: Eight Essays. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. Reviewed by:
Giovanni Spani, Italica 86.2 (2009): 328–29.
Baur, Christine O’Connell. Dante’s Hermeneutics of Salvation: Passages to Freedom in the “Divine Comedy.” Toronto; Buffalo, N.Y.; and London: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Reviewed by:
Warren Ginsberg, Speculum 84 (2009): 113–15.
Bellomo, Saverio. Filologia e critica dantesca (Brescia: La Scuola, 2008). Reviewed by:
Sarah Melanie Rolfe. Quaderni d’italianistica 30.2 (2009), 157-59.
Biard, Joël, and Fosca Mariani Zini, eds. Ut philosophia poesis: Questions philosophiques dans l’oeuvre de Dante, Pétrarque et Boccace (Paris: Vrin, 2008). Reviewed by:
Susanna Barsella, Renaissance Quarterly 62.4 (2009): 1207–8.
Braida, Antonella, and Luisa Calè, eds. Dante on View: The Reception of Dante in the Visual and Performing Arts. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007. Reviewed by:
Demetrio S. Yocum, Annali d’Italianistica 27 (2009): 427-28.
Campbell, C. Jean. The Commonwealth of Nature: Art and Poetic Community in the Age of Dante. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. Reviewed by:
Catherine Harding, Renaissance Quarterly 62.3 (2009): 869–71.
Casciani, Santa, ed. Dante and the Franciscans. The Medieval Franciscans, vol. 3. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Reviewed by:
Bernard Piciché, Sixteenth Century Journal 40.4 (2009): 1218–20.
Dante. A Critical Reappraisal. Ed. Unn Falkeid (Oslo: Oslo Academic Press Unipub, 2008). Reviewed by:
Mary Watt, Quaderni d’italianistica 30.1 (2009): 193-94.
Engel, Henrik. Dantes Inferno: Zur Geschichte der Höllenvermessung und des Höllentrichtermotivs (Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006). Reviewed by:
Wolfgang Drechsler, Sixteenth Century Journal 40.2 (2009): 571-72.
Fyler, John M. Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante and Jean de Meun. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 63. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Reviewed by:
William Sayers, Annali d’Italianistica 27 (2009): 445–47.
Glenn, Diana. Dante’s Reforming Mission and the Woman in the Comedy. Leicester: Trobadour, 2008. Reviewed by:
Alessandro La Monica, Annali d’Italianistica 27 (2009): 450–52.
Havely, Nick. Dante. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Reviewed by:
Ronald Herzman, Speculum 84 (2009): 446–47.
Hawkins, Peter S. Dante: A Brief History. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. Reviewed by:
Steven Botterill, Speculum 84 (2009): 155–56.
Holmes, Olivia. Dante’s Two Beloveds: Ethics and Erotics in the Divine Comedy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Reviewed by:
Jason Houston, Renaissance Quarterly 62.2 (2009): 511–12.
Antonio Rossini, Quaderni d’italianistica 30.1 (2009): 194-96.
Marti, Mario. Su Dante e il suo tempo con altri scritti di Italianistica. Galatina: Congedo Editore, 2009. Reviewed by:
Giuseppe A. Camerino, Annali d’Italianistica 27 (2009): 381-83.
Rossini, Antonio. Il Dante sapienziale: Dionigi e la bellezza di Beatrice. Reviewed by:
Olivia Holmes, Italica 86.4 (2009): 745–46.
Sbacchi, Diego. La presenza di Dionigi Areopagita nel “Paradiso” di Dante (Florence: Olschki, 2006). Reviewed by:
Maria Esposito Frank, Sixteenth Century Journal 40.2 (2009): 578-79.
Verdicchio, Massimo. Reading Dante Reading: A Postmodern Reading of Dante’s “Commedia” (Edmonton: M. V. Dimic Research Institute, University of Alberta, 2008). Reviewed by:
James Miller, Quaderni d’italianistica 30.2 (2009), 151-57.
Wetherbee, Winthrop. The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. Reviewed by:
Madison U. Sowell, Annali d’Italianistica 27 (2009): 476-77.
Heather Webb, Renaissance Quarterly 62.3 (2009): 868–69.
Williams, Pamela. Through Human Love to God: Essays on Dante and Petrarch. Leicester, Troubadour Publishing, 2007. Reviewed by:
Simone Bregni, Italica 86.3 (2009): 560-61.
Zanini-Cordi, Irene. Donne sciolte: Abbandono ed identità femminile nella letteratura italiana. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2008. Reviewed by:
Laura Benedetti, Italica 86.4 (2009): 752–53.
