Dante : Beyond the Commedia

by Paolucci, Anne

• ISBN13: 9781932107098
• ISBN10: 1932107096
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Isi Books

Summary

Dante: Beyond the Commedia brings together three unusual works featuring Dante. A Question of the Water and of the Land is attributed to Dante, and was translated by Charles Hamilton Bromby in 1897. "Dante's Influence on American Writers: 1776-1976" includes papers read at the 1976 annual meeting of the Dante Society of America. The third work, "Dante and the 'Quest for Eloquence' in India's Vernacular Languages" explores parallels between the languages of the Italian peninsula, examined in detail by Dante in his De Vulgari Eloquentia, and the sixteen vernacular languages of India.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Anne Paolucci
PART ONE (pp. 1-32) A Question of the Water and of the Land by Dante Alighieri
Charles Hamilton Bromby
Translator's Introduction	3	(6)
Question	9	(1)
First Reason	10	(1)
Second Reason	10	(1)
Third Reason	11	(1)
Fourth Reason	11	(1)
Fifth Reason	11	(1)
Order of the Question	12	(1)
Determination in Two Modes	12	(1)
First and Second Supposition	13	(1)
Destruction of the First Member	13	(2)
Destruction of the Second Member	15	(1)
He concludes that the Water is Concentric	16	(1)
He argues Contra; and first	16	(1)
He argues against the Things that have been Determined	17	(1)
The preceding Reason is met by an Objection	18	(1)
The Objection is Answered	19	(3)
Of the Efficient Cause of the Elevation of the Land	22	(20)
Notes	28	(7)
PART TWO (pp. 33-71) Dante's Influence on American Writers 1776--1976
Anne Paolucci
Introduction	35	(7)
Anne Paolucci
Opening Remarks
The Honorable Alessandro Cortese DeBosis, Consul General of Italy in New York	37	(2)
Greetings
The Honorable Lester Wolff, House of Representatives, 6th District, New York	39	(2)
Greetings
The Honorable Mario Biaggi, House of Representatives, 10th District, New York	41	(1)
Historical Overview of American Writers Interest in Dante (to About 1900) (J. Chesley Mathews)	42	(11)
Two Visions of the Journey of Life: Dante as Guide for Eliot and Pound (James J. Wilhelm)	53	(9)
Dante on Galway Kinnell's ``Last River'' (Glauco Cambon)	62	(19)
PART THREE (pp. 73-166) Dante and the ``Quest for Eloquence'' in India's Vernacular Languages
Anne Paolucci
Henry Paolucci
Introduction	75	(6)
The Sanskrit Revival: From Comparative Linguistics to Classical Nostalgia	81	(17)
Bengali's Development on the Latin-Italian Model	98	(30)
Gandhi and the Linguistic Surveys of Dante, Grierson and S. K. Chatterji	128	(28)
Conclusion: Literary India Today	156
Notes	160