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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 138–157.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the Divine Comedy . Founded by Robert Hollander and today codirected with Simone Marchesi of Princeton University, DDP provides the full text of more than seventy-five commentaries to the Comedy , from Jacopo Alighieri (1322) to Nicola Fosca (2015), into a searchable database accessible online. 2...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 239–241.
Published: 01 January 2010
... errors," a paradoxical phrase much like "fictional truth." So, struck by the similarity of Riffaterre's title to Dante's own metapoetic language, I picked up Riffaterre's Fictional Truth and found it to be a wonderful tool for someone intent on showing that the Divine Comedy is, after all, an artifact...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 24–38.
Published: 01 May 2021
... with claims (which, again, originated with Boccaccio) that Beatrice was a real woman; according to Biscioni, she is rather to be understood as a symbol and the Vita Nova as a treatise on love. In his preface, Biscioni takes aim at some of the most prominent commentators on the Divine Comedy (from...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 206–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
... the best of them. It is a translation in which, to use an expression that Boccaccio applies to the Divine Comedy, the lamb can walk and the elephant swim. Casual readers are free to plash through the readily grasped delights of Boccaccio's novelle; more zealous readers, those eager to acquaint themselves...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 120–137.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., Hoepli, 1947, vol. 1, p.198, vol. 2, pp. 61 and 221; Illustrated Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts , exh. Cat., London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1908, p. 119, no. 76; Brieger, Peter, Millard Meiss, and Charles Singleton, Illuminated Manuscripts of the Divine Comedy , Princeton, Princeton...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 158–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and documents, among them the famous unfinished, early fifteenth-century Flemish Book of Hours MS M.358 at the Morgan Library and the unfinished mid-fourteenth-century Venetian codex of the Divine Comedy , MS Italicus 1, at the University Library in Budapest. 2 Both manuscripts reveal helpful information...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 205–223.
Published: 01 May 2007
... not necessarily take Borges at his word when he claims that he has "read and reread The Divine Comedy in more than a dozen different editions [and also] Ariosto, Tasso, Croce, and Gentile," but that he is "quite unable to speak Italian or to follow an Italian play or film" Jorge Luis Borges, "An Autobiographical...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 408–416.
Published: 01 December 2020
... for Literature and Art launched the above-mentioned Classics of World Literature, which over the years also published Homer’s epic poems, the ancient Greek playwrights, Dante’s Divine Comedy , all of Shakespeare’s plays, and many other works of the same stature. Initially, few books belonging to this series...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (3): 315–325.
Published: 01 May 2004
... Amatoria, Dante's Paolo and Francesca episode in The Divine Comedy, and the effect of hearsay and interpolation in The Princess of Cleves. That is, even the canonical works of western literature make clear that the exchange of a narrative may arise from and engender sexual politics; but the frequency...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to the narrator’s “tragedye,” which leads him to express the hope that God will enable its poet (“makere”) to yet produce a comedy before he dies (“Ther God thi makere yet, er that he dye, / So sende myght to make in some comedye”). This reference to the Troilus as “myn tragedye” echoes the twentieth canto...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 39–61.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Poetry: Poems of Youth and of the “Vita Nuova,” with translations by Lansing Richard . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2014 . Barolini Teodolinda . “ Dante, Teacher of His Reader .” In Approaches to Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy , 2nd ed., edited by Kleinhenz...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 62–72.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Divine Comedy literary echoes early Italian language Copyright © 2021 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2021 ...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (3): 533–556.
Published: 01 December 2024
... », réécriture et variation à partir du chant XXVI de La Divine Comédie . Ulysse repart en mer au chant V de L’Odyssée parce qu’il préfère être pleinement humain plutôt que divinisé et immortalisé en consommant le nectar et l’ambroisie que Calypso lui offre ; lorsqu’il reprend la mer au chant XXVI de La...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 501–515.
Published: 01 May 2006
... St. Francis. If Leopardi never quites becomes that jongleur, he shows us the path that leads there. 508 THOMAS HARRISON Two perspectives on such a cosmic comedy in twentieth-century Italy might warrant a digression. One is the graceful association of birdlike laughter with divinity by the poet...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 491–511.
Published: 01 November 2001
... ignorantia-makes Se questo un uomo a fundamentally religious text. The inability fully to grasp the sublime creates a parallel between the narra- tor's desire to bear witness to sublime atrocity and the Haftling's desire to bear critical witness to Dante's Divine Comedy before Jean Samuel, the Pikolo. 13...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 189–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
... and silence: “Elle étouffa l’amour terrestre par l’amour divin” ( Comédie humaine 2:808). Ultimately denied a voice and condemned to the margins of the narrative and its world, Félicité disappears from Béatrix , as the male author establishes his own success in depicting her failure. In a preface...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (4): 369–386.
Published: 01 November 2002
... negating principle that sets the stage for Rabelais's comedy of evil and incongruity. Rabelais shows us this principle, and makes us laugh at it, in his narrative portrayal of established human roles or social patterns which be- 4. Simone Weil, "Morale et litterature," Cahiers du Sud, 263(1941), 40-41. 5...
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Romanic Review (2007) 98 (2-3): 225–236.
Published: 01 May 2007
... is also a recurrent theme in Borges's stories and essays, including those he devoted to Dante. And Borges's view that we have to thank Dante's humiliation by a historical Beatrice of flesh and blood for the Divine Comedy may be a projection of his own "ironically absurd passion" as Harold Bloom once put...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 189–205.
Published: 01 May 2023
... : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . Burckhardt Jacob . Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien . Vienna : Phaidon , 1934 . Dante Alighieri . The Divine Comedy: Inferno . Edited by Charles S. Singleton . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 1970 . Hessler Christiane J...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 31–44.
Published: 01 January 2002
... opens philosophical discourse to literary criticism when he compares the Phenomenology of Spirit with Dante's Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote or Balzac's Human Comedy.3 What was at stake was the possibility of unifying methods in a single field of discourse encompassing all social signifying...
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