Fabian Alfie is professor of Italian at the University of Arizona.Nicolino Applauso is visiting assistant professor of Italian at Loyola University Maryland.

The essays in this volume examine satire in Dante’s Divine Comedy, lyric poetry, and prose works. Alfie (Univ. of Arizona) and Applauso (Loyola Univ. Maryland) understand satire as “the genre dedicated to the reprehension of vice” (p. 3). The editors' introduction will be much appreciated since it both positions the volume within Dante criticism and provides a brief accessible overview of medieval European understandings of satire. The volume is divided into two parts: the first (four essays) focuses on the Comedy, and the second (also four essays) looks at satire in the minor works. Highlights among the essays include a reassessment of Paradiso 27 by Maggie Fritz-Morkin (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and a novel analysis of satire in the De vulgari eloquentia by Anthony Nussmeier (Univ. of Dallas). The volume finishes with a lighthearted essay by Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College) exploring how Dante has become an enduring reference in modern popular culture and humor. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

• Introduction: Dante Satiro - Fabian Alfie and Nicolino ApplausoPart 1: Satire in Dante’s CommediaChapter 1: The Ontoso Metro of Dante’s Sinners: Inferno 7 - Franco Suitner Chapter 2: Inverted Popes, the Apostolic Succession, and Dante’s Vocation as Satirist - Ronald L. MartinezChapter 3: “Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta” (Inferno 21.139): Satire and Sodomy in Dante’s Inferno - Mary WattChapter 4: “Se io mi trascoloro, non ti maravigliar”: Peter’s Invective and colores rhetorici in Paradiso 27 - Maggie Fritz-MorkinPart 2: Satire in Dante’s Minor Works Chapter 5: “Ut exinde potionare possimus dolcissimum ydromellum” (DVE 1.1.1): ‘Dante Satiro’ and the De vulgari eloquentia - Anthony Nussmeier Chapter 6: Invective and Emotional Tones in Dante’s Convivio - Beatrice ArduiniChapter 7: The Conundrum of Genre: Dante’s “Doglia mi reca” - Fabian AlfieChapter 8: Scelestissimis fiorentinis: Violence, Satire, and Prophecy in the ars dictaminis and Dante’s Political Epistles - Nicolino ApplausoC

Fabian Alfie is professor of Italian at the University of Arizona.Nicolino Applauso is visiting assistant professor of Italian at Loyola University Maryland.

The essays in this volume examine satire in Dante’s Divine Comedy, lyric poetry, and prose works. Alfie (Univ. of Arizona) and Applauso (Loyola Univ. Maryland) understand satire as “the genre dedicated to the reprehension of vice” (p. 3). The editors' introduction will be much appreciated since it both positions the volume within Dante criticism and provides a brief accessible overview of medieval European understandings of satire. The volume is divided into two parts: the first (four essays) focuses on the Comedy, and the second (also four essays) looks at satire in the minor works. Highlights among the essays include a reassessment of Paradiso 27 by Maggie Fritz-Morkin (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and a novel analysis of satire in the De vulgari eloquentia by Anthony Nussmeier (Univ. of Dallas). The volume finishes with a lighthearted essay by Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College) exploring how Dante has become an enduring reference in modern popular culture and humor. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

• Introduction: Dante Satiro - Fabian Alfie and Nicolino ApplausoPart 1: Satire in Dante’s CommediaChapter 1: The Ontoso Metro of Dante’s Sinners: Inferno 7 - Franco Suitner Chapter 2: Inverted Popes, the Apostolic Succession, and Dante’s Vocation as Satirist - Ronald L. MartinezChapter 3: “Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta” (Inferno 21.139): Satire and Sodomy in Dante’s Inferno - Mary WattChapter 4: “Se io mi trascoloro, non ti maravigliar”: Peter’s Invective and colores rhetorici in Paradiso 27 - Maggie Fritz-MorkinPart 2: Satire in Dante’s Minor Works Chapter 5: “Ut exinde potionare possimus dolcissimum ydromellum” (DVE 1.1.1): ‘Dante Satiro’ and the De vulgari eloquentia - Anthony Nussmeier Chapter 6: Invective and Emotional Tones in Dante’s Convivio - Beatrice ArduiniChapter 7: The Conundrum of Genre: Dante’s “Doglia mi reca” - Fabian AlfieChapter 8: Scelestissimis fiorentinis: Violence, Satire, and Prophecy in the ars dictaminis and Dante’s Political Epistles - Nicolino ApplausoC