In the Footsteps of Dante: Crossroads of European Humanism

Published by De Gruyter 2023

In the Footsteps of Dante

Crossroads of European Humanism

Edited by: Teresa Bartolomei and Joao R. Figueiredo

Volume 99 in the series Mimesis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110796049

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Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the "Great Beyond" (Manguel). Following in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going à rebours, but a commitment to the future, to exploring the potential of humanity to "transhumanise".

This dynamic of self-transcendence in Dante’s humanism (Ossola), which claims for European civilisation a vocation for universalism (Ferroni), is analysed in the volume at three crucial moments: Firstly, the establishment of an emancipatory relationship between author and reader (Ascoli), in which authorship is authority and not power; secondly, the conception of vision as a learning process and horizon of eschatological overcoming (Mendonça); finally, the relationship with the past, which is never purely monumental, but ethically and intertextually dynamic, in an original rewriting of the original scriptural, medieval, and classical culture (Nasti, Bolzoni, Bartolomei).

A second group of contributions is dedicated to the reconstruction of Dante’s presence in Portuguese literature (Almeida, Espírito Santo, Figueiredo, Marnoto, Vaz de Carvalho): they attest to the innovative impact of Dante’s work even in literary traditions more distant from it.

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Teresa Bartolomei, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon; João R. Figueiredo, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Foreword Teresa Bartolomei and João R. Figueiredo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Prologue
We Are All Called upon to Build Visions The Divine Comedy as a Pedagogy of the Gaze José Tolentino De Mendonça Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Section I: Dante. A Poet of Our Time
“Supra te et non subter”: The Biblical Humanism of the Comedy Carlo Ossola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Biblical Signa and Dante’s Words: For a Taxonomy of Biblical Intertextuality in the Comedy Paola Nasti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Dante and the Faith of the Reader Albert Russell Ascoli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Dante: Talking to the Dead – Giving a Voice to Silence Teresa Bartolomei Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Dante: Memory Matters in the Comedy Lina Bolzoni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Dante, Poet of a Europe to Come Giulio Ferroni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Section II: Dante in Portugal
Dante in the Century of Camões Isabel Almeida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Dante and Camões: Epic and the Portrayal of Humanity João R. Figueiredo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Dante and the Fifth Empire Arnaldo do Espírito Santo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Dante in Portugal: An Ethereal Gaze Rita Marnoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Dante: Poetry and Translation Jorge Vaz de Carvalho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Epilogue
Dante the Geographer Alberto Manguel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Editions and Translations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (literary studies, Dante studies)
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 297
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 7
Keywords: Alighieri; Dante; Divine Comedy; Portuguese literature; Christian humanism

eBook

Published: January 30, 2023
ISBN: 9783110796049

Hardcover

Published: January 30, 2023
ISBN: 9783110795943