Focusing on literary and non-literary works alike, Interpretation and Visual Poetics in Medieval and Early Modern Texts places visual and material aspects of literary study at the center of the interpretive process. The essays in this collection explore new and traditional areas of research from hermeneutics, to codicology and history of the book, to cultures of sound and the digital humanities. They address the texts themselves, as well as their early manuscripts and subsequent printed and digital editions. The contributors collectively cover a time span of over 1000 years, and begin with the Mediterranean, focusing on texts produced in Italy and the Languedoc regions, then radiate outward to analyse the texts’ material containers (manuscripts, print, and digital editions) that are now housed worldwide.
Contributors are: Michelangelo Zaccarello, Daniel O’Sullivan, Valerio Cappozzo, Jelena Todorović, Christopher Kleinhenz, Mirko Tavoni, Isabella Magni, Francesco Marco Aresu, Dario Del Puppo, Beatrice Arduini, Giovanni Spani, Furio Brugnolo, Teodolinda Barolini, Alessandro Vettori, Marcello Ciccuto, Marco Veglia, Michael Papio, and Anthony Nussmeier.
Author(s): Beatrice Arduini, Isabella Magni, Jelena Todorović.
Series: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, 26
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 361
City: Leiden
Contents
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Introduction
Part 1 Materiality and Visual Poetics
Chapter 1 Historical Notes on Textual Scholarship: The Lectio Brevior Potior Rule
Chapter 2 Transcription and Musical Memory in the Occitan Chansonnier in Paris, BnF French 795
Chapter 3 Editing the Somniale Danielis: The Earliest Italian Version of a Dream Book
Chapter 4 Revisiting the Trespiano Fragment (Ca) of the Vita Nova
Chapter 5 Hysteron Proteron, Teleology, and Dante’s Commedia
Chapter 6 The Vision of God (Paradiso XXXIII) and Its Iconography
Chapter 7 Editing the Albi[z]zi Memorial Book
Chapter 8 A Dantean (and Alfierian?) Incunable in the Olin Library at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
Chapter 9 What Did Late Medieval Italy Sound Like?
Chapter 10 Dolente me: son morto ed ag[g]io vita! The Sonnet Corona of ‘Disaventura’ by Monte Andrea da Firenze
Chapter 11 The Battle of Campaldino: Strategy, Tactics, and a Brief Medical History
Chapter 12 Continuation and Conclusion of an Interpretation of Dante’s Vita nuova XXII, 9–16 (Voi che portate la sembianza umile and Sè tu colui c’hai trattato sovente)
Chapter 13 Voi che ’ntendendo il terzo ciel movete. A Dramatization of “utrum de passione in passionem possit anima transformari”: Conflict, Compulsion, Consent, Conversion
Chapter 14 Sodomy and Exile: Dante and Brunetto
Chapter 15 A Reuse of Antiquity, Dante’s Way: The Brazen Bull of Phalaris
Chapter 16 Panfilo’s Mark (on Decameron I. 1)
Chapter 17 Was Pronapides an Orphic?
Chapter 18 Jacopo Corbinelli’s De vulgari eloquentia (1577) and the Retorica di Ser Brunetto Latini in volgar fiorentino (1546)
Bibliography and Works Cited
Index
