... the water” (Inferno 24.49–51).1 With these words, echoing both Brunetto Latini’s appeal to eternal fame in Inferno 15 (“You [Brunetto] taught me [Dante the pilgrim] how man makes himself eter- nal” [85]) and Arnaut Daniel’s poetic identification with lost labor and the inef- fable (“I am Arnaut, who...

... of countless undergraduate literature essays. The critic Blake Leland has analyzed, in Dante’s encounter with one of his literary models, Brunetto Latini, in canto 15 of the Inferno, a locus classicus of a scene of punishment that evokes powerfully ambivalent feelings toward an important (and highly...

... in the ancient myth of Pasiphaë and the bull. Nor does the Chantilly manuscript of Dante’s Inferno, as Michael Camille maintains in “The Pose of the Queer: Dante’s Gaze, Brunetto Latini’s Body.” The opened manuscript shows Dante and his sod- omitical teacher, Brunetto Latini, gesturing across the “ass crack...

.... Unlike Dante, who explicitly linked the two in the fi gure of Brunetto Latini in his Inferno, Gower does not link them, making Watt’s case more dependent on historical context than on textual evidence. In the book’s second section, “Sex,” the queerness of Gower really emerges...

.... Unlike Dante, who explicitly linked the two in the fi gure of Brunetto Latini in his Inferno, Gower does not link them, making Watt’s case more dependent on historical context than on textual evidence. In the book’s second section, “Sex,” the queerness of Gower really emerges...

.... Unlike Dante, who explicitly linked the two in the fi gure of Brunetto Latini in his Inferno, Gower does not link them, making Watt’s case more dependent on historical context than on textual evidence. In the book’s second section, “Sex,” the queerness of Gower really emerges...

.... Unlike Dante, who explicitly linked the two in the fi gure of Brunetto Latini in his Inferno, Gower does not link them, making Watt’s case more dependent on historical context than on textual evidence. In the book’s second section, “Sex,” the queerness of Gower really emerges...

... of rhetoric and sodomy or effeminacy, while legitimate, is only tenuously established in the text. Unlike Dante, who explicitly linked the two in the fi gure of Brunetto Latini in his Inferno, Gower does not link them, making Watt’s case more dependent on historical context than...

.... Unlike Dante, who explicitly linked the two in the fi gure of Brunetto Latini in his Inferno, Gower does not link them, making Watt’s case more dependent on historical context than on textual evidence. In the book’s second section, “Sex,” the queerness of Gower really emerges...

.... Unlike Dante, who explicitly linked the two in the fi gure of Brunetto Latini in his Inferno, Gower does not link them, making Watt’s case more dependent on historical context than on textual evidence. In the book’s second section, “Sex,” the queerness of Gower really emerges...

.... Unlike Dante, who explicitly linked the two in the fi gure of Brunetto Latini in his Inferno, Gower does not link them, making Watt’s case more dependent on historical context than on textual evidence. In the book’s second section, “Sex,” the queerness of Gower really emerges...

.... Unlike Dante, who explicitly linked the two in the fi gure of Brunetto Latini in his Inferno, Gower does not link them, making Watt’s case more dependent on historical context than on textual evidence. In the book’s second section, “Sex,” the queerness of Gower really emerges...

...Jonathan D. Katz Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 JOHN CAGE’S QUEER SILENCE; OR, HOW TO AVOID MAKING MATTERS W 0 R S E Jonathan D. Katz To know of some is good; but for the rest, silence is to be praised. -Ser Brunetto Latini...