Dante's Poets: Textuality and Truth in the COMEDY

by Teodolinda Barolini

By systematically analyzing Dante's attitudes toward the poets who appear throughout his texts, Teodolinda Barolini examines his beliefs about the limits and purposes of textuality and, most crucially, the relationship of textuality to truth.

Originally published in 1984.

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328 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[idiomatic · Rating 4 out of 5]

i'm not shelling out $75(!) at the used bookstore for out of print dante scholarship (THO IT'S SO TEMPTING) so i've spent the whole latter half of this afternoon taking notes. fav: in the first bit about intertextuality she lenses the vergil-beatrice dynamic through lancelot du lac and proposes that it's vergil who acts as courtly knight to beatrice's central bossy romantic heroine, which leaves space to complete the implied triptych (knight / heroine (thus queen?) / king) with either dante OR god?! I HAVE THOUGHTS

anyway the strength of this specific book is mostly about making the convivio paratextually coherent to the commedia and also being written by barolini who is SO CONSISTENTLY GOOD and has such good focus. (beatrice. she focuses on beatrice.)

[Finn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this as a source for a term paper. Very interesting work!