The Fiore in Context

by Baranski, Zygmunt G.

• ISBN13: 9780268009953
• ISBN10: 0268009953
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Summary

The second volume in the William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies, The Fiore in Context: Dante, France, Tuscany, is the record of a milestone in the study of the Fiore, and perhaps in Dante studies: the international conference of the Fiore held at St. John's College, Cambridge, in September 1994. The conference, attended by most of the world's leading experts on the Fiore, examined many aspects of the poem, including textual questions, its cultural context, and its relations with the Roman de la Rose and the Comedy. Above all it constituted, in the judgment of the participants themselves, the most important discussion of the poem's attribution to Dante since Contini's pronouncement on the question in 1965. The published proceedings reproduce both the questionnaire that framed the conference, in which each participant weighs all the principal arguments for and against attributing the Fiore to Dante, as well as the lively discussion that followed each paper.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Discorso di apertura (23 settembre 1994)
The Questionnaire and Related Materials	p. 3
Summus Minimusve Poeta? Arguments for and against Attributing the Fiore to Dante	p. 13
Nota sul codice e la sua scrittura	p. 49
Sul Fiore. Punti critici del testo	p. 87
The Fiore and the Comedy: Some Computerized Comparisons	p. 109
Il Fiore, il Roman de la Rose e i precursori d'oc e d'oil	p. 137
The Fiore and the Early Reception of the Roman de la Rose	p. 153
Jason's Voyage and the Poetics of Rewriting: The Fiore and the Roman de la Rose	p. 167
La traccia del Fiore	p. 187
The Ethics of Literature: The Fiore and Medieval Traditions of Rewriting	p. 207
Il Fiore, il Roman de la Rose e la tradizione lirica italiana prima di Dante	p. 233
Fiore Inferno in fieri: Schede di letture in parallelo	p. 273
The Fiore Revisited in the Inferno	p. 315
Uno, nessuno e tanti: il Fiore attribuibile a chi?	p. 331
The Results of the Poll: Presentation and Analysis	p. 363
Final Debate	p. 379
Citations to the Fiore and to Dante's works	p. 395
General Index	p. 403
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