There are many fine monographs from 2016, but one work that stands out for its comprehensiveness and boldness is the second volume of "vertical readings” of Dante’s Comedy. […] Its innovative approach to understanding the whole of Dante’s Comedy encourages readers to take stock of the intentio operis and autoris, to begin to consider how, as the Letter to Cangrande has it, "the purpose of the whole and the part could be multiple that is both remote and proximate”
Anthony Nussmeier
"Due and Trecento I (Dante)". The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies (0084-4152), vol. 78, no. 1, 2018. doi:10.1163/22224297-07801019
This volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the ‘Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy’ website.
Editions Followed and Abbreviations
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
George Corbett and Heather Webb
12. Centaurs, Spiders and Saints
Christian Moevs
13. ‘Would you Adam and Eve it?’
Robert Wilson
14. The Patterning of History: Poetry, Politics and Adamic Renewal
Catherine M. Keen
15. Dante’s Fatherlands
Simone Marchesi
16. Politics of Desire
Manuele Gragnolati
17. Seductive Lies, Unpalatable Truths, Alter Egos
Tristan Kay
18. Women, War and Wisdom
Anne C. Leone
19. Inside Out
Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja
20. Prediction, Prophecy and Predestination: Eternalising Poetry in the Commedia
Claudia Rossignoli
21. God’s Beloved: From Pitch, Through Script, to Writ
Corinna Salvadori Lonergan
22. Truth, Autobiography and the Poetry of Salvation
Giuseppe Ledda
Bibliography
Index of Names