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Book SynopsisAs Virgil leads Dante through Limbo, the uppermost portion of Hell, they are joined by four classical poets, and Virgil describes one of them as “Horace the satirist” (“Orazio satiro,” 4:89). This collection of essays applies the expression to Dante himself in order to emphasize the satirical elements of his works. Although Dante is not typically described as a satirist, anyone familiar with his works will recognize the strong satirical element in his many writings. By exploring the satiric elements in Dante’s literature, these essays explore the primary literary tool at his disposal for his prophetic objectives: the castigation of vice. This collection of essay is the first comprehensive study on Dante and satire within his entire corpus that has ever been published.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Dante Satiro - Fabian Alfie and Nicolino Applauso
Part 1: Satire in Dante’s Commedia
Chapter 1: The Ontoso Metro of Dante’s Sinners: Inferno 7 - Franco Suitner
Chapter 2: Inverted Popes, the Apostolic Succession, and Dante’s Vocation as Satirist - Ronald L. Martinez
Chapter 3: “Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta” (Inferno 21.139): Satire and Sodomy in Dante’s Inferno - Mary Watt
Chapter 4: “Se io mi trascoloro, non ti maravigliar”: Peter’s Invective and colores rhetorici in Paradiso 27 - Maggie Fritz-Morkin
Part 2: Satire in Dante’s Minor Works
Chapter 5: “Ut exinde potionare possimus dolcissimum ydromellum” (DVE 1.1.1): ‘Dante Satiro’ and the De vulgari eloquentia - Anthony Nussmeier
Chapter 6: Invective and Emotional Tones in Dante’s Convivio - Beatrice Arduini
Chapter 7: The Conundrum of Genre: Dante’s “Doglia mi reca” - Fabian Alfie
Chapter 8: Scelestissimis fiorentinis: Violence, Satire, and Prophecy in the ars dictaminis and Dante’s Political Epistles - Nicolino Applauso
Coda: The American Legacy of Dante Satiro
Chapter 9: Hell, Yes! Dante in Contemporary American Satire - Arielle Saiber
