... allusive quotations, Dante opposes to the absolute time of Eden the idea of an imperfect time, tied to the pattern of an all-human knowledge, which Dante himself connected to the teaching and character of Brunetto Latini. Copyright © 2021 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York...

...Catherine Keen Abstract This essay uses Bruno Latour’s model of diplomacy from An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence (AIME), alongside the networks/worknets of actor-network theory, to discuss how the medieval Italian writers Brunetto Latini and Dante Alighieri explore experiences of political...

...Paul Creamer Li Livres dou Tresor . By Brunetto Latini . Edition and study by Spurgeon Baldwin and Paul Barrette . Tempe : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 2003 . Pp. 392 . Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Book Reviews...

..., such as Brunetto Latini, and even to compilations and translations derived from or imitating French works composed in "nostro volgare."12 If so, then French in Dante's time tends toward a generic as well as a linguistic distinction. In such a world, the borders between literatures, as well as nations, are much...

... do not generate works; we are not homo faber . Human subjects ‘emerge’ from works; we are homo fabricatus .” Catherine Keen comes next, with her “ Extracomunitario ? Networks and Brunetto Latini.” I was delighted to find Keen linking AIME with both Brunetto Latini and Dante Alighieri, having...

... the ecology and technology of the codex as a product of elaborate worknets that displace authors in favor of books as actants. With Catherine Keen’s “ Extracomunitario ? Networks and Brunetto Latini,” we turn from category crossings to the crossing of boundaries, specifically the political boundaries...

..., Vincent, Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters: Apollinaire and Cubism (Peter Read), 366-369 - - - , Forged Genealogies: Saint-John Perse's Conversations with Culture (Carol Rigolot), 369-373 Creamer, Paul, Li Livres dou Tresor (Brunetto Latini), 361-362 - - - , The Anonymous Marie de France (R...

... lucid introduction, its uncluttered page design, its discriminating attention to variants, and of course the fascinating nature and scope of Brunetto's text-will be of great utility and interest to modern scholars. (PAUL CREAMER, Columbia University) The Anonymous Marie de France. By R. Howard Bloch...