...John Alcorn This article applies several concepts from psychology to the interpretation of Dante Alighieri’s literary masterpiece Inferno and describes elements of pedagogy for this kind of interdisciplinary approach. A premise is that sinners in Hell experience emotional suffering. Core...

...Monica Keane Inferno 15 and Paradiso 15 are particularly suitable as a selected reading for a lower-level humanities class. Comparing Brunetto Latini and Cacciaguida as father figures and contrasting the images of Florence in each episode can help students develop a more complex understanding...

...Jason Aleksander This essay discusses five main topoi in the Divine Comedy through which teachers might encourage students to explore the question of the Divine Comedy ’s treatment of philosophy: (1) the Divine Comedy ’s representations in Inferno of noble pagans who are allegorically...

...Elizabeth Dolly Weber How to engage students in the Commedia and involve them in the pleasure of decoding the rich density of Dante’s allusions to historical, literary, and Biblical characters? This article suggests that a class on the Inferno can be enriched by creating a wiki that encourages...

... alludes in the Inferno , with links to digital copies of manuscripts available on several websites, including Digital Scriptorium, the British Library’s Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, and the Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Works Cited...

...” is to observe their relationship with a theme that Dante explores throughout his career: loss. The loss of Beatrice in the Vita Nuova becomes the loss of Florence in Dante's works written in exile. It then becomes the spiritual desolation explored among those in the Inferno who have lost “the good...

...Margaret Hughes A reading of Inferno 32, Purgatorio 31, and Paradiso 31 compares a physical and interior pilgrimage, especially in the way in which the beginning and end of an interior journey are distinguished, to illuminate the concept of love that is central to the Divine Comedy . © 2017...

..., for a clear understanding of how the poet understood and presented philosophy.  John Alcorn engages in a discussion of the value of using certain psychological concepts to investigate the sinners’ responses to their punishments in the Inferno and how Dante presents certain notions regarding...

... . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Hawkins Peter . 2015 . “Our Bodies, Our Selves: Crucified, Famished, Nourished: Inferno XXIII, Purgatorio XXIII, Paradiso XXIII” (video) , Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy , sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1956644 . Singleton Charles S...

... University Press 2017 Dante translation medieval poetry Works Cited Ageno Franca Brambilla , ed. 1995 . Convivio , by Alighieri Dante . Florence : Le Lettere . Durling Robert , trans. 1997 . Inferno , by Alighieri Dante . Oxford : Oxford University Press...

... idea of transitional phenomena to understand the cognitive activity of reading as an act of creativity and collaboration. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Dante paradise D. W. Winnicott bird imagery pedagogy Works Cited Corbett George Webb Heather . 2012 . “Inferno I...

... in Dante: Scripture and Classical Authors in Dante . Oxford : Clarendon Press . Musa Mark , trans. 1992 . The Divine Comedy , by Alighieri Dante . Vol. 1 , Inferno . London : Penguin Classic . Cluster on Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy Vertically Just Look through...

... Domenico . 1961 . Il libro della “Vita Nuovo.” Florence : G. C. Sansoni . Ferrante Joan . 1969 . “ The Relation of Speech to Sin in the Inferno. ” Dante Studies 87 : 33 – 46 . ———. 1980 . “ Cortes’ Amor in Medieval Texts .” Speculum 55 : 4 ( October ): 686 – 95...

... assignments and discussion methods foreground the mutually reinforcing integration of creativity and analytical precision. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Works Cited Alighieri Dante . 1980 . Inferno , trans. Mandelbaum Allen . New York : Bantam Dell . ———. 1984...

... in the past and toward a more dynamic sense of its present in cultural circulation. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Works Cited Bassnett Susan . 2008 . Translation Studies . 3rd ed. New York : Routledge . Birk Sandow Sanders Marcus , trans. [2004] 2009 . Inferno...

... that Dante revised or reinvented historical events. It is argued that Dante’s use of history can be a valuable tool to teach the skills of critical analysis and close reading. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Works Cited Alighieri Dante . 1980 . Inferno , trans. Mandelbaum Allen...

... Vasari, shared the opinion (1998: 13). Dante also wrote of the sins committed by money lenders — usurers —  such as Reginaldo Scrovegni (Inferno XI, 64 – 66), late father of Giotto’s most famous patron, Enrico Scrovegni, who commissioned the decoration for the Arena Chapel in Padua (c...

..., Theresa 567 Cluster on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Dante’s Commedia Alcorn,  John | Suffering in Hell: The Psychology of Emotions in Dante’s Inferno   77 Aleksander,  Jason | Teaching the Divine Comedy’s Understanding of Phi...

... explains how he teaches aspects of his research project, “Justice Hell: Principles, Patterns, and Metaphors of Retribution in Dante’s Inferno.” Jason Aleksander is associate professor of philosophy at Saint Xavier Univer- sity in Chicago, where he regularly teaches undergraduate courses in medi...

... was formidable but unwieldy and that there was something unseemly about a woman writing a poem that was three thousand lines longer than Dante’s Inferno. This cluster of articles provides teaching strategies that are pertinent to the writers under review but can easily be extended to many more...