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Book SynopsisFocusing 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.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Beatrice Arduini, Isabella Magni and Jelena Todorović Part 1: Materiality and Visual Poetics 1 Historical Notes on Textual Scholarship: The Lectio Brevior Potior Rule Michelangelo Zaccarello 2 Transcription and Musical Memory in the Occitan Chansonnier in Paris, BnF French 795 Daniel E. O’Sullivan 3 Editing the Somniale Danielis: The Earliest Italian Version of a Dream Book Valerio Cappozzo 4 Revisiting the Trespiano Fragment (Ca) of the Vita Nova Jelena Todorović 5 Hysteron Proteron, Teleology, and Dante’s Commedia Christopher Kleinhenz 6 The Vision of God (Paradiso 33) and Its Iconography Mirko Tavoni 7 Editing the Albi[z]zi Memorial Book Isabella Magni 8 A Dantean (and Alfierian?) Incunable in the Olin Library at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) Francesco Marco Aresu 9 What Did Late Medieval Italy Sound Like? Dario Del Puppo Part 2: Hermeneutics and Literary Criticism 10 Dolente me: son morto ed ag[g]io vita! The Sonnet Corona of ‘Disaventura’ by Monte Andrea da Firenze Beatrice Arduini 11 The Battle of Campaldino: Strategy, Tactics, and a Brief Medical History Giovanni Spani 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) Furio Brugnolo 13 Voi che ’ntendendo il terzo ciel movete. A Dramatization of “utrum de passione in passionem possit anima transformari”: Conflict, Compulsion, Consent, Conversion Teodolinda Barolini 14 Sodomy and Exile; Dante and Brunetto Alessandro Vettori 15 A Reuse of Antiquity, Dante’s Way: The Brazen Bull of Phalaris Marcello Ciccuto 16 Panfilo’s Mark (on Decameron I. 1) Marco Veglia 17 Was Pronapides an Orphic? Michael Papio 18 Jacopo Corbinelli’s De vulgari eloquentia (1577) and the Retorica di Ser Brunetto Latini in volgar fiorentino (1546) Anthony Nussmeier Bibliography and Works Cited Index
