Lexington Books
Pages: 262
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-7936-2171-9 • Hardback • May 2020 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-7936-2172-6 • eBook • May 2020 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
Fabian Alfie is professor of Italian at the University of Arizona.
Nicolino Applauso is visiting assistant professor of Italian at Loyola University Maryland.
Introduction: Dante Satiro - Fabian Alfie and Nicolino Applauso
Part 1: Satire in Dante’s Commedia
Chapter 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. Martinez
Chapter 3: “Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta” (Inferno 21.139): Satire and Sodomy in Dante’s Inferno - Mary Watt
Chapter 4: “Se io mi trascoloro, non ti maravigliar”: Peter’s Invective and colores rhetorici in Paradiso 27 - Maggie Fritz-Morkin
Part 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 Arduini
Chapter 7: The Conundrum of Genre: Dante’s “Doglia mi reca” - Fabian Alfie
Chapter 8: Scelestissimis fiorentinis: Violence, Satire, and Prophecy in the ars dictaminis and Dante’s Political Epistles - Nicolino Applauso
Coda: The American Legacy of Dante Satiro
Chapter 9: Hell, Yes! Dante in Contemporary American Satire - Arielle Saiber