Why Dante damned Francesca da Rimini
The vast majority of Dante’s readers have found Francesca da Rimini an acutely sympathetic figure-a tragic heroine. Yet Dante damned her, pronouncing a stern and challenging moral judgment.
Reading about Lancelot in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde
This book is the central one of Troilus and Criseyde’s five books, with the sexual union of Troilus with Criseyde forming the climax and turning-point of the entire plot-structure, condensed at the start of the work by Chaucer in the words “fro woe to wele and after out of joie.”
Curses and laughter: The ethics of political invective in the comic poetry of high and late medieval Italy
Modern criticism tends to treat medieval invective as a playfully subversive but marginal poetic game with minimal ethical weight. Instead, I aim to restore these poetic productions to their original context: the history, law, and custom of Tuscan cities
Chaucer’s Inferno: Dantean Burlesques in The Canterbury Tales
Like Dante, Chaucer composed in the vernacular rather than in Latin, organized his work by means of the frame story of a guided pilgrimage, and included himself as a character in the journey that he describes. Yet Chaucer gives each of these elements a carnivalesque turn, so that the serious matter of Dante’s Commedia becomes, in The Canterbury Tales, the stuff of comedy.
Boccaccio, Cavalcanti’s Canzone “Donna me prega” and Dino’s Glosses
Boccaccio, Cavalcanti’s Canzone “Donna me prega” and Dino’s Glosses Usher, Jonathan (University of Edinburgh) Heliotropia 2.1 (2004) Abstract The enigmatic, indeed disturbing figure…
Beyond Beatrice: from Love Poetry to a Poetry of Love
Beyond Beatrice: from Love Poetry to a Poetry of Love By Brian Reynolds Paper given at the Fu Jen Fourth Annual Medieval Conference:…
Matelda in the Terrestrial Paradise
Matelda in the Terrestrial Paradise By Diana Glenn Flinders University Languages Group Online Review, Vol.1:1 (2002) Abstract: This analysis of the enigmatic figure…
KALAMAZOO 2011: Session 92 – Thursday, May 12, 2011: In Giro: Italian Identity and Travel in the Middle Ages
In Giro: Italian Identity and Travel in the Middle Ages Sponsor: Italians and Italianists at Kalamazoo Organizer: Rachel D. Gibson (University of Minnesota–Twin…
Hero or Tyrant: Images of Julius Caesar in Selected Works from Vergil to Bruni
Hero or Tyrant: Images of Julius Caesar in Selected Works from Vergil to Bruni By Sarah M. Loose Master’s Thesis, Brigham Young University,…
Concerning a Paradox in the “Divine Comedy”
Concerning a Paradox in the “Divine Comedy” By Frithjof Schuon Studies in Comparative Religion, Vol. 4, No. 2. (1970) Introduction: One of the…
Frederick’s Menagerie
Frederick’s Menagerie Refling, Mary A Conference Paper Read at the Second Annual Robert Dombrowski Italian Conference, September 17-18, (2005) Abstract Exotic animals have…
Metaphorical painting: Michelangelo, Dante, and the Last Judgment
Metaphorical painting: Michelangelo, Dante, and the Last Judgment Barnes, Bernadine The Art Bulletin; Mar (1995)77, 1 Abstract In the lower right corner of…
Dante and Medicine: The Circle of Malpractice
Dante and Medicine: The Circle of Malpractice By Pasquale Accardo Southern Medical Journal, Vol. 82:5 (1989) Introduction: Dante’s Commedia is a literary epic…
The Problem with Paganism: Dante and Boccaccio
Lecture – The Problem with Paganism: Dante and Boccacio University of Toronto – Alumni Hall, Room #400 John Marenbon, PhD, Senior Research Fellow,…
Dante’s Metam-Orpheus: the Unspoken Presence of Orpheus in the Divine Comedy
Dante’s Metam-Orpheus: the Unspoken Presence of Orpheus in the Divine Comedy By Leah Schwebel Hirundo, the McGill Journal of Classical Studies, Vol.4 (2005-06)…
Echoes of Boethius and Dante in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde
Echoes of Boethius and Dante in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde An, Sonjae Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Volume 12 No. 2 (December…
Troilus and Criseyde: The Hidden Influence of Chaucer’s Reading
Troilus and Criseyde: The Hidden Influence of Chaucer’s Reading Sonjae, An Medieval English Studies, vol. 10 (2002) No. 2 Abstract When Chaucer is…
Holding the Center: Chaucer’s Book of Troilus and Dante’s Commedia
Holding the Center: Chaucer’s Book of Troilus and Dante’s Commedia Kaylor, N. H. Medieval English Studies, vol. 8 (2000) Abstract In his “Retraction,”…
A Pilgrim and his Journey: Illuminating Interpretations of Dante’s Commedia
A Pilgrim and his Journey: Illuminating Interpretations of Dante’s Commedia Sokolowski, Linda C. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 3 (1986) Abstract While there…