Purgatorio (The Divine Comedy series Book 2)

by Dante

  as Musaeus VI.61–63

  interested in Virgil alone VII.1–3

  soul, faculties of IV.1–15

  Southern Cross I.22–24

  stars, four (cardinal virtues) I.22–24; VIII.85–93

  Statius in earthly paradise XXVII.19; XXXII.28–30

  stupore (as distinct from ammirazione) XXIX.55–57

  style, humble IV.19–25

  suicide I.58–60; I.133–136

  sun, as symbol of Christ VIII.10–12

  tenzone between Dante and Forese XXIII.85–93; XXIII.115–119

  time references II.1–9; IV.136–139; XII.81; XV.7–12

  Titus XXI.82–84

  Trajan, St. Thomas on X.73–93

  trees of garden of Eden XXII.130–135; XXII.140–141; XXIII.61–71; XXIII.72–75; XXIV.103–105; XXIV.115–117; XXXII.38–42

  Troy, exemplary of Pride XII.61–63

  ubi sunt (topos) XIV.97–123

  Ugolino VI.16–18; VI.83; XIV.125; XXXII.70–71

  Ulysses I.58–60; I.130–132; II.1–9; II.31–36; II.113–114; IV.52–54; IV.127; XIV.37–42; XIX.22–24

  Uzzah’s presumption X.56–57

  Valerius Maximus XV.94–105

  Varro XV.97–99

  velo (veil) XXX.66

  Venus (planet) I.19–21; XXVII.94–99

  verghetta (magic wand) XIV.37–42

  Vespasian XXI.82–84

  Virgil:

  allegorical reading of his Aeneid XVIII.136–138

  as allegory of reason? III.27; XVIII.46–48

  as “divine poet” XXI.94–96

  as Eurydice XXX.49–51

  as failure XXI.16–18

  as loser VI.1–12

  as mamma XXX.43–48

  citing Scripture III.22–24

  epitaph III.27; V.134; VI.72

  fourth Eclogue as read by Statius XXII.67–73; XXII.70–72

  lack of knowledge of purgatory X.19

  lacking dignity III.10–11

  misread by Statius XXII.40–41

  murmuring X.100–102

  place of burial III.27

  “reading” D.’s mind? XV.133–135; XIX.52–60

  role reversal with D. III.61–63; XVI.8–9

  silences of XXIV.1–3; XXV.17–18

  St. Paul’s visit to tomb of III.27; X.100–102

  tragedy of III.40–45

  unique self-naming VII.7

  wrath, as sin of will V.77–78

  virtues:

  cardinal XXIX.130–132; XXXI.103–108

  theological XXIX.121–129; XXX.31–33

  “visible speech” X.94–96

  vision, vocabulary of XV.85–114; XV.85–86

  voi (honorific “You”) XIX.131

  walking erect, as human trait XII.7–9

  walls of the terraces perpendicular or obtuse? X.23

  will:

  absolute and conditional XXI.61–66

  correction and perfection of XXVII.139–141

  William of Nogaret XX.85–90

  Wisdom XXXI.128–129; XXXI.133–138

  women of Purgatorio and Paradiso XXIII.85–93

  words, repeated XV.67–75; XVI.53–63; XXI.61–66

  worms, imperfect creatures X.128

  Wrath, exemplars of as related to Violence XVII.8–9; XVII.19–39

  Zodiac IV.61–66

  LIST OF WORKS CITED

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  What follows is precisely that, not an inclusive bibliography of studies relevant to Dante or even to his Purgatorio, which alone would be voluminous. Abbreviated references in the texts of the notes are keyed to this alphabetical listing. For those interested in the general condition of Dantean bibliography, however, a few remarks may be helpful.

  Since an extended bibliography for the study of Dante includes tens of thousands of items, those who deal with the subjects that branch out from the works of this writer are condemned to immoderate labor and a sense that they are always missing something important. While even half a century ago it was possible to develop, in a single treatment, a fairly thorough compendium of the most significant items (e.g., S. A. Chimenz, Dante, in Letteratura italiana. I maggiori [Milan: Marzorati, 1954], pp. 85–109), the situation today would require far more space. Fortunately, the extraordinary scholarly tool represented by the Enciclopedia dantesca, dir. U. Bosco, 6 vols. (Rome, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1970–78—henceforth ED), has given Dante studies its single most important bibliographical resource, leaving only the last quarter century—which happens to be the most active period in the history of Dante studies—uncovered. However, for the years 1965–90, Enzo Esposito has edited a helpful guide, Dalla bibliografia alla storiografia: la bibliografia dantesca nel mondo dal 1965–1990 (Ravenna: Longo, 1995). A closer analysis of a shorter period is available in “Bibliografia Dantesca 1972–1977,” ed. Leonella Coglievina, Studi Danteschi 60 (1988): 35–314 (presenting 3121 items for this five-year period). The bibliography in ED, vol. 6, pp. 499–618 (a length that gives some sense of the amount of basic information available), contains ca. 5,000 items and is of considerable use, breaking its materials into convenient categories. (Its bibliography of bibliographies alone runs six double-column pages, pp. 542–47.) The ED also, of course, contains important bibliographical indications in many of its entries. A major new English source for bibliographical information is The Dante Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Lansing (New York: Garland, 2000).

  In the past dozen years, Dante studies, perhaps more than any other postclassical area of literature, has moved into “the computer age.” There is a growing online bibliography available, developed from the bibliography of American Dante studies, overseen by Richard Lansing for the Dante Society of America, which includes an increasing number of Italian items (http://www.princeton.edu/~dante). Some seventy-five commentaries to the Commedia are now available through the Dartmouth Dante Project (opened 1988) [www.dante.dartmouth.edu]. There is also the Princeton Dante Project (http://www.princeton.edu/dante), a multimedia edition of the Commedia (open to public use since 1999) overseen by Robert Hollander, which also functions as an entry point to most of the many Dante sites on the Web, including Otfried Lieberknecht’s site in Berlin, which is a source of an enormous amount of information about Dante in electronic form, and, since the autumn of 2000, the site being developed by the Società Dantesca Italiana (www.danteonline.it).

  LIST OF WORKS CITED IN THE NOTES

  Abra.1985.1

  Abrams, Richard, “Illicit Pleasures: Dante among the Sensualists (Purgatorio XXVI),” Modern Language Notes 100 (1985): 1–41.

  Alfi.1998.1

  Alfie, Fabian, “For Want of a Nail: The Guerri-Lanza-Cursietti Argument Regarding the Tenzone,” Dante Studies 116 (1998): 141–59.

  Anto.2001.1

  Antonelli, Roberto, “Cavalcanti e Dante: al di qua del Paradiso,” in Dante: da Firenze all’aldilà. Atti del terzo Seminario dantesco internazionale, ed. Michelangelo Picone (Florence: Cesati, 2001), pp. 289–302.

  Ardi.1990.1

  Ardissino, Erminia, “I Canti liturgici nel Purgatorio dantesco,” Dante Studies 108 (1990): 39–65.

  Armo.1981.1

  Armour, Peter, “The Theme of Exodus in the First Two Cantos of the Purgatorio,” in Dante Soundings, ed. David Nolan (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1981), pp. 59–99.

  Armo.1989.1

  Armour, Peter, Dante’s Griffin and the History of the World: A Study of the Earthly Paradise (“Purgatorio” XXIX–XXXIII) (Oxford: Clarendon, 1989).

  Armo.1990.1

  Armour, Peter, “Divining the Figures: Dante’s Three Dreams in the Purgatorio,” in Melbourne Essays in Italian Language and Literature in Memory of Colin McCormick, ed. Tom O’Neill (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1990), pp. 13–26.

  Armo.1993.1

  Armour, Peter, “Words and the Drama of Death in Purgatorio V,” in Word and Drama in Dante: Essays on the “Divina Commedia,” ed. John C. Barnes and Jennifer Petrie (Dublin: Irish Academic Pre
ss, 1993), pp. 93–122.

  Arti.1967.1

  Artinian, Robert, “Dante’s Parody of Boniface VIII,” Dante Studies 85 (1967): 71–74.

  Auri.1970.1

  Aurigemma, Marcello, “II Canto XII del Purgatorio,” in Nuove letture dantesche, vol. IV (Florence: Le Monnier, 1970), pp. 105–27.

  Aust.1932.2

  Austin, H. D., “The Arrangement of Dante’s Purgatorial Reliefs,” PMLA 47 (1932): 1–9.

  Aust.1933.1

  Austin, H. D., “Aurea Justitia: A Note on Purgatorio, XXII, 40f,” Modern Language Notes 48 (1933): 327–30.

  Aver.1988.1

  Aversano, Mario, “Il canto XXXII del Purgatorio,” in La quinta rota: Studi sulla “Commedia” (Turin: Tirrenia, 1988), pp. 149–84.

  Aver.2000.1

  Aversano, Mario, “Sulla poetica dantesca nel canto XXIV del Purgatorio,” L’Alighieri 16 (2000): 123–38.

  Bald.1985.1

  Baldelli, Ignazio, “Visione, immaginazione e fantasia nella Vita nuova,” in I sogni nel Medioevo, ed. Tullio Gregory (Rome: Edizioni dell’Atene, 1985), pp. 1–10.

  Bald.1999.3

  Balducci, Marino A., “Il preludio purgatoriale e la fenomenologia del sinfonismo dantesco: percorso ermeneutico,” Publications of the Carla Rossi Academy Press (in Affiliation with the University of Connecticut [www.rossiacademy.uconn.edu]), 1999.

  Bara.1989.1

  Bara´nski, Zygmunt G., “Dante’s Three Reflective Dreams,” Quaderni d’italianistica 10 (1989): 213–36.

  Bara.1993.1

  Bara´nski, Zygmunt G., “Dante e la tradizione comica latina,” in Dante e la “bella scola” della poesia: Autorità e sfida poetica, ed. A. A. Iannucci (Ravenna: Longo, 1993), pp. 225–45.

  Bara.1993.2

  Bara´nski, Zygmunt G., “ ‘Sordellus … qui … patrium vulgare deseruit’: A Note on De vulgari eloquentia, I, 15, sections 2–6,” in The Cultural Heritage of the Italian Renaissance: Essays in Honour of T. G. Griffith, ed. C. E. J. Griffiths and R. Hastings (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993), pp. 19–45.

  Bara.2001.2

  Bara´nski, Zygmunt G., “Canto XXV,” in Lectura Dantis Turicensis: Purgatorio, ed. Georges Güntert and Michelangelo Picone (Florence: Cesati, 2001), pp. 389–406.

  Barb.1934.1

  Barbi, Michele, Problemi di critica dantesca (Florence: Sansoni, 1934).

  Barb.1984.1

  Bàrberi Squarotti, Giorgio, “Ai piedi del monte: il prologo del Purgatorio,” in L’arte dell’interpretare: studi critici offerti a Giovanni Getto (Turin: L’Arciere, 1984), pp. 19–44.

  Barn.1993.1

  Barnes, John C., “Purgatorio XX,” in Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” Introductory Readings II: “Purgatorio,” ed. Tibor Wlassics (Lectura Dantis [virginiana], 12, supplement, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1993), pp. 288–301.

  Baro.1984.1

  Barolini, Teodolinda, Dante’s Poets (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984).

  Baro.1992.1

  Barolini, Teodolinda, The Undivine “Comedy”: Detheologizing Dante (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).

  Baro.1997.1

  Barolini, Teodolinda, “Guittone’s Ora parrà, Dante’s Doglia mi reca, and the Commedia’s Anatomy of Desire,” in Seminario Dantesco Internazionale: Atti del primo convegno tenutosi al Chauncey Conference Center, Princeton, 21–23 ottobre 1994, ed. Z. G. Bara´nski (Florence: Le Lettere, 1997), pp. 3–23.

  Basi.1990.1

  Basile, Bruno, “Dante e l’idea di peregrinatio,” in his Il tempo e le forme: studi letterari da Dante a Gadda (Modena: Mucchi, 1990 [1986]), pp. 9–36.

  Batt.1961.1

  Battaglia, Salvatore, and Giorgio Bárberi Squarotti, eds., Il Grande Dizionario della lingua italiana (Turin: UTET, 1961–96 [up to “Sik”]).

  Bell.1989.1

  Bellomo, Saverio, ed., Filippo Villani, Expositio seu comentum super “Comedia” Dantis Allegherii (Florence: Le Lettere, 1989).

  Berg.1965.1

  Bergin, Thomas G., “Dante’s Provençal Gallery,” Speculum 40 (1965): 15–30.

  Berk.1979.1

  Berk, Philip R., “Shadows on the Mount of Purgatory,” Dante Studies 97 (1979): 47–63.

  Bigi.1955.1

  Bigi, Emilio, “Genesi di un concetto storiografico: ‘dolce stil novo,’ ” Giornale storico della letteratura italiana 132 (1955): 333–71.

  Bigo.1964.1

  Bigongiari, Dino, Essays on Dante and Medieval Culture, ed. Henry Paolucci (New York: The Bagehot Council, 2000 [1964]).

  Binn.1955.1

  Binni, Walther, “Lettura del canto III del Purgatorio,” in his Ancora con Dante (Ravenna: Longo, 1983 [1955]), pp. 9–27.

  Biso.1971.1

  Bisogni, Fabio, “Precisazioni sul Casella dantesco,” Quadrivium 12 (1971 [1974]): 81–91.

  Bloo.1952.1

  Bloomfield, Morton W., The Seven Deadly Sins (East Lansing: Michigan State College Press, 1952).

  Bocc.1974.1

  Boccaccio, Giovanni, Trattatello in laude di Dante, ed. P. G. Ricci (Milan: Mondadori, 1974).

  Bona.1902.1

  Bonaventura, Arnaldo, Il canto XV del “Purgatorio” ([“Lectura Dantis Orsanmichele”] Florence: Sansoni, 1902).

  Bosc.1942.1

  Bosco, Umberto, “Particolari danteschi,” Annali della Reale Scuola Normale di Pisa, Lettere, storia e filosofia 11 (1942): 131–47.

  Boyd.1981.1

  Boyde, Patrick, Dante Philomythes and Philosopher: Man in the Cosmos (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

  Brow.1978.1

  Brownlee, Kevin, “Dante and Narcissus (Purg. XXX, 76–99),” Dante Studies 96 (1978): 201–6.

  Brow.1984.1

  Brownlee, Kevin, “Phaeton’s Fall and Dante’s Ascent,” Dante Studies 102 (1984): 135–44.

  Brug.1969.1

  Brugnoli, Giorgio, “Stazio in Dante,” Cultura Neolatina 29 (1969): 117–25.

  Brug.1988.1

  Brugnoli, Giorgio, “Statius Christianus,” Italianistica 17 (1988): 9–15.

  Brug.1993.2

  Brugnolo, Furio, “Cino (e Onesto) dentro e fuori la Commedia,” in Omaggio a Gianfranco Folena, ed. Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo (Padua: Editoriale Programma, 1993), pp. 369–86.

  Bund.1927.1

  Bundy, Murry Wright, The Theory of Imagination in Classical and Medieval Thought (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1927).

  Cach.1993.1

  Cachey, Theodore, “Purgatorio XV,” in Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” Introductory Readings II: “Purgatorio,” ed. Tibor Wlassics (Lectura Dantis [virginiana], 12, supplement, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1993), pp. 212–34.

  Cart.1944.1

  Carter, A. E., “An Unrecognized Virgilian Passage in Dante,” Italica 21 (1944): 149–53.

  Cass.1978.1

  Cassell, Anthony K., “ ‘Mostrando con le poppe il petto’ (Purg. XXIII, 102),” Dante Studies 96 (1978): 75–81.

  Cass.1984.1

  Cassell, Anthony K., Dante’s Fearful Art of Justice (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984).

  Cass.1984.2

  Cassell, Anthony K., “The Letter of Envy: Purgatorio XIII–XIV,” Stanford Italian Review 4 (1984): 5–22.

  Cecc.1990.2

  Cecchetti, Giovanni, “The Statius Episode: Observations on Dante’s Conception of Poetry,” Lectura Dantis [virginiana], 7 (1990): 96–114.

  Ceri.2000.1

  Ceri, Giovangualberto, “L’Astrologia in Dante e la datazione del ‘viaggio’ dantesco,” L’Alighieri 15 (2000): 27–57.

  Cerv.1986.1

  Cervigni, Dino S., Dante’s Poetry of Dreams (Florence: Olschki, 1986).

  Cesa.1824.1

  Cesari, Antonio, Bellezze della “Divina Commedia” (Verona: P. Libanti, 1824–26).

  Cher.1989.1

  Cherchi, Paolo, “Gervase of Tillbury and the Birth of Purgatory,” Medioevo romanzo 14 (1989): 97–110.

  Chia.1967.2

  Chiarini, Eugenio, “Purgatorio Canto XXX,” i
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  Chia.1984.2

  Chiavacci Leonardi, Anna Maria, “Le beatitudini e la struttura poetica del Purgatorio,” Giornale storico della letteratura italiana 161 (1984): 1–29.

  Chia.1994.1

  Chiavacci Leonardi, Anna Maria, Purgatorio, con il commento di A. M. C. L. (Milan: Mondadori, 1994).

  Chia.1995.1

  Chiamenti, Massimiliano, Dante Alighieri traduttore (Florence: Le Lettere, 1995).

  Chia.1999.2

  Chiamenti, Massimiliano, “Corollario oitanico al canto ventottesimo del Purgatorio,” Medioevo e rinascimento 13 (1999): 207–20.

  Ciof.1991.1

  Cioffari, Vincenzo, “Dante’s Use of Lapidaries: A Source Study,” Dante Studies 109 (1991): 149–62.

  Ciof.1985.1

  Cioffi, Caron Ann, “ ‘Dolce color d’orïental zaffiro,’ a Gloss on Purgatorio 1.13,” Modern Philology 82 (1985): 355–64.

  Ciof.1992.1

  Cioffi, Caron Ann, “Fame, Prayer, and Politics: Virgil’s Palinurus in Purgatorio V and VI,” Dante Studies 110 (1992): 179–200.

  Cont.1960.1

  Contini, Gianfranco, ed., Poeti del Duecento, 2 vols. (Milan-Naples: Ricciardi, 1960).

  Cont.1976.1

  Contini, Gianfranco, Un’ idea di Dante (Turin: Einaudi, 1976).

  Cook.1999.1

  Cook, Eleanor, “Scripture as Enigma: Biblical Allusion in Dante’s Earthly Paradise,” Dante Studies 117 (1999): 1–19.

  Corn.2000.1

  Cornish, Alison, “Angels,” The Dante Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Lansing (New York: Garland, 2000), pp. 37–45.

  Corn.2002.2

  Cornish, Alison, Reading Dante’s Stars (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).

  Cors.1987.1

  Corsi, Sergio, Il “modus digressivus” nella “Divina Commedia” (Potomac, Md.: Scripta humanistica, 1987).

  Crac.1984.1

  Cracco, Giorgio, “Tra Marco e Marco: un cronista veneziano dietro al canto XVI del Purgatorio?” in AA. VV., Viridarium floridum: Studi di storia veneta offerti dagli allievi a Paolo Sambin, a cura di M. C. Billanovich, G. Cracco, A. Rigon (Padua: Antenore, 1984), pp. 3–23.