American Dante Bibliography for 2015

Compiled by Danielle Callegari and edited by Elisa Brilli

This bibliography is intended to include all publications relating to Dante (books, articles, translations, reviews) written by North American writers or published in North America in 2015, as well as reviews of books from elsewhere published in the United States and Canada.

Translations

Dante’s Rime. Translated by Diehl, Patrick S. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. 276 p.

Sapegno, Natalino. A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio. A Study of Their Times and Works by. Translated by Traversa, Vincenzo. New York: Peter Lang, 2015. 256 p.

Books

Barański, Zygmunt G., Andreas Kablitz and Ülar Ploom, eds. “I luoghi nostri”: Dante’s Natural and Cultural Spaces. Tallinn: Tallinn University Press, 2015. 290 p.

Barański, Zygmunt G., and Lino Pertile, eds. Dante in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxv, 571 p.  

Brilli, Elisa, Laura Fenelli and Gerhard Wolf, eds. Images and Words in Exile. Avignon and Italy during the First Half of the 14th Century, Florence: SISMEL, 2015. xxxiv, 582 p., 17 plates.

Corbett, George and Heather Webb, eds. Vertical readings in Dante’s Comedy, Cambridge, England: Open Book Publishers, 2015. xi, 269 p.  

Daigle-Williamson, Marsha. Reflecting the Eternal: Dante’s Divine Comedy in the Novels of C.S. Lewis. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2015. xiii, 330 p.  

Dreher, Rod. How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History’s Greatest Poem. New York: Regan Arts, 2015. 320 p.  

Franke, William. The revelation of imagination: From Homer and the Bible through Virgil and Augustine to Dante. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2015. xv, 406 p.  

Franke, William. Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2015. xi, 256 p.  

Freccero, John. In Dante’s Wake: Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition. Edited by Danielle Callegari and Melissa Swain. Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015. xviii, 268 p.  

Gibson, Faith. Dante. Los Gatos: Smashwords Editions, 2015. 263 p.  

Kleinhenz, Christopher. Dante intertestuale e interdisciplinare: saggi sulla “Commedia.” Rome: Aracne, 2015. 492 p.  

Luzzi, Joseph. In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love. New York: HarperWave, 2015. 297 p.  

Modesto, Filippa. Dante’s Idea of Friendship: The Transformation of a Classical Concept. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. 255 p.  

Pietropaolo, Domenico. Dante and the Christian Imagination. New York - Ottawa - Toronto: Legas, 2015. 351 p.  

Pyle, Eric. William Blake’s Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Study of the Engravings, Pencil Sketches and Watercolors. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2015. ii, 283 p., 8 color plates.  

Weir, David. Ulysses Explained: How Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare Inform Joyce’s Modernist Vision. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xii, 254 p.  

Ziolkowski, Jan M. ed. Dante and Islam. Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015. viii, 372 p.; reprinted from Dante Studies 125 (2007).

Articles

Abulafia, David. “The Last Muslims in Italy.” In Jan M. Ziolkowski ed. Dante and Islam (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015), 235-50; reprinted from Dante Studies 125 (2007): 271-87.

Balakian, Peter. “Poetry as Civilization: Primo Levi and Dante at Auschwitz” in Id., Visa and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015, 1-13.

Barański, Zygmunt G. “‘With such vigilance! With such effort!’ Studying Dante ‘subjectively.’” Italian culture 33, No.1 (2015): 55-69.

Barański, Zygmunt G. “Without Any Violence.” In George Corbett and Heather Webb, eds. Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy: Volume 1 (London: Open Book Publishers, 2015), 181-202.

Barański, Zygmunt G. “Studying the spaces of Dante’s intellectual formation: some problems of definition.” In Zygmunt G. Barański, Andreas Kablitz and Ülar Ploom, eds. “I luoghi nostri”: Dante’s Natural and Cultural Spaces (Tallinn: Tallinn University Press, 2015), 257-281.

Barnes, John C. “Filthy hogs by crystal streams: Dante’s view of the Casentino.” in In Zygmunt G. Barański, Andreas Kablitz and Ülar Ploom, eds. “I luoghi nostri”: Dante’s Natural and Cultural Spaces (Tallinn: Tallinn University Press, 2015), 45-66.

Barnstone, Willis. “On the Road from Dante to Jack Kerouac (Stopping by Frost, Pound, and Eliot).” Comparative Literature Studies 52, No. 2 (2015): 233-253.

Barolini, Teodolinda. “Amicus eius. Dante and the semantics of friendship.” Dante Studies 133 (2015): 6-69.

Barsella, Susanna. “Il ‘poema sacro’ tra arte e teologia del lavoro: Purgatorio X-XII, Paradiso XXV-XXVI.” In Giuseppe Ledda, ed. Le teologie di Dante: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Ravenna, 9 novembre 2013 (Ravenna: Centro dantesco dei Frati minori conventuali, 2015), 181-200.

Battistoni, Giorgio. “Dante and the Three Religions.” In Jan M. Ziolkowski ed. Dante and Islam (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015), 214-33; reprinted from Dante Studies 125 (2007): 249-70.

Berger, Harry, Jr. “Metaphor and Metonymy in the Middle Ages: Aquinas and Dante.” In Id., Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015), 82-93.

Berger, Harry, Jr. “Sacramental Anxiety in the Late Middle Ages: Hugh of St. Victor, the Abbot Suger, and Dante.” In Id., Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015), 94-114.

Boccassini, Daniela. “Falconry as a Transmutative Art: Dante, Frederick II, and Islam.” In Jan M. Ziolkowski ed. Dante and Islam (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015), 133-58; reprinted from Dante Studies 125 (2007): 157-82.

Boitani, Piero. “Ulysses and the Stars.” Strumenti critici: rivista quadrimestrale di cultura e critica letteraria 30, No.1 (2015): 3-18.

Brilli, Elisa. “‘Dove poter peccare non è più nostro’ (Purg. XXVI, 132): Dante e la poetica della conversione.” In Walter Puccetti, and Valerio Marucci, eds. Lectura Dantis Lupiensis: Purgatorio (Ravenna: Longo, 2015): 63-86.

Brilli, Elisa. “The Interplay between Political and Prophetic discourse: a Reflection on Dante’s Autorship in Epistles V-VII.” In Elisa Brilli, Laura Fenelli and Gerhard Wolf, eds. Images and words in exile. Avignon and Italy during the first half of the fourteenth century (Florence: SISMEL, 2015), 153-169.

Brilli, Elisa. “Memorie degli antenati e invenzioni dei posteri. Cacciaguida tra Dante e Firenze.” Letture classensi 44 (2015): 67-84.

Brilli, Elisa. “I Romani virtuosi del Convivio. Lettori e modalità di lettura del De civitate Dei di Agostino nei primi anni del Trecento.” In Johannes Bartuschat, and Andrea A. Robiglio, eds. Il Convivio di Dante (Ravenna: Longo, 2015), 133-156.  

Bugbee, John. “Dante’s staircase and the history of the Will.” Speculum 90, No. 4 (2015): 1019-52.

Burman, Thomas E. “How an Italian Friar Read His Arabic Qur’an.” In Jan M. Ziolkowski ed. Dante and Islam (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015), 78-94; reprinted from Dante Studies 125 (2007): 93-109.

Caferro, William. “‘Le Tre Corone Fiorentine’ and war with the Ubaldini, 1349-1350”. In Francesco Ciabattoni, Elsa Filosa, and Kristina Olson, Boccaccio 1313-2013 (Ravenna: Longo, 2015), 43-55.

Callegari, Danielle. “Grey Partridge and Middle-Aged Mutton: The Social Value of Food in the Tenzone with Forese Donati.” Dante Studies 133 (2015): 177-90.

Camozzi Pistoja, Ambrogio. “Profeta e satiro. A proposito di Inferno XIX.” Dante Studies 133 (2015): 27-45.

Cantarino, Vicente. “Dante and Islam: History and Analysis of a controversy.” In Jan M. Ziolkowski ed. Dante and Islam (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015), 31-44; reprinted from Dante Studies 125 (2007): 37-55.

Ciugureanu, Adina. “Dantean Echoes in The Old Curiosity Shop.” Dickens Quarterly 32, No. 2, (2015): 116-28.

Clarke, Kenneth P. “Sotto la quale rubrica: Pre-reading the Comedìa.” Dante Studies 133 (2015): 147-76.

Clarke, Kenneth P. “10. Humility and the (p)arts of art.” In George Corbett and Heather Webb, eds. Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy: Volume 1 (London: Open Book Publishers, 2015), 203-221.

Collins, Matthew. “The problem of the ‘guasto legnaggio’ in Leopardi’s Sopra il monumento di Dante.” Forum Italicum 99, No. 1 (2015), 24-37.

Combs-Schilling, Jonathan. “Tityrus in Limbo: Figures of the Author in Dante’s Eclogues.” Dante Studies 133 (2015): 1-26.

Corti, Maria. “Dante and Islamic Culture.” Translation. In Jan M. Ziolkowski ed. Dante and Islam (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015), 45-66; reprinted from Dante Studies 125 (2007): 57-75.

Deen Schildgen, Brenda. “Civitas and Love: Looking Backward from Paradiso VIII.” In George Corbett and Heather Webb, eds. Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy: Volume 1. (London: Open Book Publishers, 2015), 161-79.

Frank, Maria Esposito. “Dante’s Muhammad: Parallels between Islam and Arianism.” In Jan M. Ziolkowski ed. Dante and Islam (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015), 159-77; reprinted from Dante Studies 125 (2007): 185-206.

Gásquez, José Martínez. “Translations of the Qur’an and Other Islamic Texts before Dante (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries).” In Jan M. Ziolkowski ed. Dante and Islam (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015), 67-77; reprinted from Dante Studies 125 (2007): 79-92.

Godioli, Alberto. “The World As A Continuum: Kantian (and Dantean) Echoes in Gadda’s Pasticciaccio.The Modern Language Review 110, No. 3 (2015): 694-703.

Hartley, Julia Caterina. “Reading in Dante and Proust.” MLN 130, No. 5 (2015): 1130-149.

Lombardi, Elena. “‘A Gallehault was the book’: Francesca da Rimini and the Manesse Minnesanger Manuscript.” Mediaevalia 35 (2015): 151-76.

Lombardi, Elena. “‘Per aver pace co’ seguaci sui’: civil, spiritual and erotic peace in the Francesca episode.” In John Barnes, and Daragh O’Connell, eds. War and peace in Dante. Essays literary, historical and theological (Dublin: Four Courts Press & UCD Foundation for Italian Studies, 2015), 173-194.

Mainini, Lorenzo. “Il fondamento giuridico dell’auctor romanzo. Per leggere l’incipit e la metafora del Convivio.” Dante Studies 133 (2015): 98-121.

Mallette, Karla. “Muhammad in Hell.” In Jan M. Ziolkowski ed. Dante and Islam (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015), 178-92; reprinted from Dante Studies 125 (2007): 207-224.

Martinez, Ronald L. “In memoriam: Robert M. Durling (1929-2015).” Dante Studies 133 (2015): 191-95.

Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “Introduzione.” In Giuseppe Ledda, ed. Le teologie di Dante: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Ravenna, 9 novembre 2013 (Ravenna: Centro dantesco dei Frati minori conventuali, 2015), 11-22.

Menzinger, Sara. “Dante, la Bibbia, il diritto. Sulle tracce di Uzzà nel pensiero teologico-giuridico medievale.” Dante Studies 133 (2015): 122-46.

Moevs, Christian. “L’amore triforme: i sette peccati capitali e la struttura della Commedia di Dante.” In Giuseppe Ledda, ed. Le teologie di Dante: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Ravenna, 9 novembre 2013 (Ravenna: Centro dantesco dei Frati minori conventuali, 2015), 143-80.

Montemaggi, Vittorio. “‘E ‘n la sua volontade è nostra pace’: Peace, Justice and the Trinity in the Commedia.” In In John Barnes, and Daragh O’Connell, eds. War and peace in Dante. Essays literary, historical and theological (Dublin: Four Courts Press & UCD Foundation for Italian Studies, 2015), p. 195-226.

Olson, Kristina Marie. “Uncovering the Historical Body of Florence: Dante, Forese Donati, and Sumptuary Legislation.” Italian culture 33, No.1 (2015): 1-15.

Pastor, Joel Salvatore. “Sodomites are from Mars: Deconstructing rhetoric in the Commedia.” Mediaevalia 35 (2015): 117-50.

Prosperi, Valentina. “‘Even children and the uneducated know them’: The Medieval Trojan Legends in Dante’s Commedia.” Medievalia et humanistica 40 (2015): 83-112.

Quint, David. “The Modern Copy: Dante, Ariosto, and Michelangelo’s Sistine ceiling.” I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 18 (2015): 397-427.

Raffa, Guy P. “Bones of contention: Ravenna’s and Florence’s claims to Dante’s remains.” Italica 92, n.3 (2015): 565-81.

Roush, Sherry. “Divining Dante: Scandals of His Corpus and Corpse.” In Id., Speaking Spirits: Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015), 69-107.

Sbacchi, Diego. “Il cielo che sorride a Dante.” Italica 92, No.2 (2015): 298-308.

Schildgen, Brenda Deen. “Philosophers, Theologians, and the Islamic Legacy in Dante: Inferno 4 versus Paradiso 4.” In Jan M. Ziolkowski ed. Dante and Islam (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015), 95-113; reprinted from Dante Studies 125 (2007): 113-32.

Schintgen, Christine. “Why Do the Slothful Not Have a Prayer?” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 18, No. 3 (2015): 100-112.

Shields, John C. “Wheatley, Dante, and the Latin Question.” African American Review 48, Nos. 1-2 (2015): 17-31.

Shoaf, Richard Allen. “Barking in Hell: Medieval Sign Theory in the Inferno and Dante’s Poetics of ‘Convenire.’” Le tre corone: rivista internazionale di studi su Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio 2 (2015): 147-60.

Stone, Gregory B. “Dante and the Falasifa: Religion as Imagination.” In Jan M. Ziolkowski ed. Dante and Islam (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015), 114-32; reprinted from Dante Studies 125 (2007): 133-56.

Tavoni, Mirko. “Dante ‘imagining’ his journey through the afterlife.” Dante Studies 133 (2015): 70-97.

Tolan, John. “Mendicants and Muslims in Dante’s Florence.” In Jan M. Ziolkowski ed. Dante and Islam (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2015), 193-213; reprinted from Dante Studies 125 (2007): 227-48.

Verdicchio, Massimo. “Irony and Desire in Dante’s Inferno 27.” Italica 92, No.2 (2015): 285-97.

Dissertations

Aresu, Francesco Marco. “The Author as Scribe. Materiality and Textuality in the Trecento.” Harvard University, 2015.

Ballesteros, Humberto. “The Commedia’s Metaphysics of Human Nature: Essays on Charity, Free Will and Ensoulment.” Columbia University, 2015.

Brown, Christopher E. “Writing Time: Dante, Petrarch, and Temporality.” Harvard University, 2015.

Cardillo, Giulia. “The Question of Prophecy in Dante’s Commedia.” Yale University, 2015.

Keach, Kristen Sarah. “Heaven, Hell, and the Space Between: Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Dante’s Divine Comedy.” University of California, Davis, 2015.

Kim, Jane Elizabeth. “Poetic Theology: Dante and the British Romantic poets.” Cornell University, 2015.

Kim, Jieon. “Beatrice the Consummate Lady Wisdom.” University of Notre Dame, 2015.

Lauriello, Christopher Lewis. “Church and State in Dante Alighieri’s Monarchia.” Boston College, 2015.

Nadalin, Bruno. “Illustration in Hell: Images of Dante’s Inferno.” Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, 2015.

Ouji, Leila Anna. “Aspects of Orientalism in Dante.” University of Toronto, 2015.

Pastor, Joel Salvatore. “The Poet in Babylon: Petrarch, Dante, and the Political Implications of the Prophetic Mode.” Cornell University, 2015.

Pelley, Dylan. “Love’s logic: Dante and the practice of devotional poetry.” Union University, 2015.

Thomas, Maureen E. “The Divine Communion of Soul and Song: A Musical Analysis of Dante’s Commedia.” Kent State, 2015.

Reviews

Baika, Gabriella I. The Rose and Geryon: The Poetics of Fraud and Violence in Jean de Meun and Dante. Washington, D.C: Catholic University of America Press, 2014. Reviewed by:

            Alfie, Fabian, Speculum 90, No. 3 (2015): 770-71.

Delogu, Daisy, Mediaevistik. Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinare Mittelalterforschung, 27 (2014): 456-458.

Bénéteau, David P., ed. Li Fatti de’ Romani: edizione critica dei manoscritti Hamilton 67 e Riccardiana 2418, Alessandria: Dell’Orso, 2012. Reviewed by:

            Alfie, Fabian, Speculum 90, No. 2 (2015): 499-500.

Barnes, John C. and Michelangelo Zaccarello, eds. Language and Style in Dante: Seven Essays, Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press, 2013. Reviewed by:

            Alfie, Fabian, Forum Italicum 49, No. 3 (2015): 895-97.

Durling, Robert M. and Ronald L. Martinez, eds. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume III: Paradiso. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Reviewed by:

            Basile, Paola, Forum Italicum 49, No.1 (2015): 230-32.

Ciabattoni, Francesco and Pier Massimo Forni, eds. The Decameron Third Day in Perspective. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2014. Reviewed by:

            Giusti, Eugenio, Forum Italicum 49, No. 1 (2015): 232-34.

Gill, Amyrose McCue and Sarah Rolfe Prodan, eds. Friendship and Sociability in Premodern Europe: Contexts, Concepts, and Expressions. Toronto: Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014. Reviewed by:

            Montoliu, Delphine, Annali d’Italianistica 33 (2015): 430-32.

Kilgour, Maggie and Elena Lombardi, eds. Dantean Dialogues: Engaging with the Legacy of Amilcare Iannucci. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. Reviewed by:

            Magni, Isabella, Italica 92, No. 2 (2015): 511-13.

Shoaf, R. Allen, The Medieval Review 8 (2015): on-line (http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/)

Mazzotta, Giuseppe. Reading Dante, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2014. Reviewed by:

            Sowell, Madison U., Italica 92, No. 2 (2015): 505-08.

Nasti, Paola and Claudia Rossignoli, eds. Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. Reviewed by:

            Dell’Oso, Lorenzo, L’Alighieri 56, n.s., XLV (2015): 149-154.

            Keane, Monica, Comitatus 46 (2015): 245-47.

            Seriacopi, Massimo, Studi Danteschi 80 (2015): 367-373.

            Southerden, Francesca, Speculum 90, No. 2 (2015): 566-67.

Parker, Deborah and Mark Parker. Inferno Revealed: From Dante to Dan Brown. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. Reviewed by:

            Olson, Kristina Marie, Italica 92, No. 2 (2015): 508-11.

Marchesi, Simone. Dante and Augustine: Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Reviewed by:

             Tardelli Terry, Claudia, Italian studies 70, No. 2 (2015): 280-91.