Interpretation and Visual Poetics in Medieval and Early Modern Texts

Beatrice Arduini, Ph.D. (2008), University of Washington, is Associate Professor of Italian Studies. Her work centers on Medieval Italian literature, particularly manuscript culture and early book history. Isabella Magni, Ph.D. (2017), Rutgers University, is Postdoctoral Associate in Italian and Digital Humanities. She is co-principal investigator of the Petrarchive project and editor of the Italian Paleography website. She has published on Dante, Petrarca and digital philology.Jelena Todorović, Ph.D. (2009), University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Associate Professor of Italian. She has published on Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, and on medieval Italian, Occitan, and Latin literatures, cultures, and cultural exchanges.

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionBeatrice Arduini, Isabella Magni and Jelena TodorovićPart 1: Materiality and Visual Poetics1 Historical Notes on Textual Scholarship: The Lectio Brevior Potior RuleMichelangelo Zaccarello2 Transcription and Musical Memory in the Occitan Chansonnier in Paris, BnF French 795Daniel E. O’Sullivan3 Editing the Somniale Danielis: The Earliest Italian Version of a Dream BookValerio Cappozzo4 Revisiting the Trespiano Fragment (Ca) of the Vita NovaJelena Todorović5 Hysteron Proteron, Teleology, and Dante’s CommediaChristopher Kleinhenz6 The Vision of God (Paradiso 33) and Its IconographyMirko Tavoni7 Editing the Albi[z]zi Memorial BookIsabella Magni8 A Dantean (and Alfierian?) Incunable in the Olin Library at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)Francesco Marco Aresu9 What Did Late Medieval Italy Sound Like?Dario Del PuppoPart 2: Hermeneutics and Literary Criticism10 Dolente me: son morto ed ag[g]io vita! The Sonnet Corona of ‘Disaventura’ by Monte Andrea da FirenzeBeatrice Arduini11 The Battle of Campaldino: Strategy, Tactics, and a Brief Medical HistoryGiovanni Spani12 Continuation and Conclusion of an Interpretation of Dante’s Vita nuova XXII, 9–16 (Voi che portate la sembianza umile and Sè tu colui c’hai trattato sovente)Furio Brugnolo13 Voi che ’ntendendo il terzo ciel movete. A Dramatization of “utrum de passione in passionem possit anima transformari”: Conflict, Compulsion, Consent, ConversionTeodolinda Barolini14 Sodomy and Exile; Dante and BrunettoAlessandro Vettori15 A Reuse of Antiquity, Dante’s Way: The Brazen Bull of PhalarisMarcello Ciccuto16 Panfilo’s Mark (on Decameron I. 1)Marco Veglia17 Was Pronapides an Orphic?Michael Papio18 Jacopo Corbinelli’s De vulgari eloquentia (1577) and the Retorica di Ser Brunetto Latini in volgar fiorentino (1546)Anthony NussmeierBibliography and Works CitedIndex