Notes Toward a Gendered History of Italian Literature, with a Discussion of Dante's Beatrix Loquax

Barolini, Teodolinda

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“…19. For the construction of Beatrice in the Commedia, see my "Notes toward a Gendered History of Italian Literature, with a Discussion of Dante's Beatrix loquax" [Barolini 2006].…”

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“…In this essay I intend to return to the question of difference in Dante's Commedia, as treated in The Undivine Comedy (Barolini 1992), and to trace its genealogy in Dante's earlier treatise De vulgari eloquentia. Difference -linguistic, temporal, narratological, political, existential, theological -is a major theme of The Undivine Comedy, where I also outlined the origins of Dante's preoccupation with difference (aka diversity or multiplicity) in his previous works.…”

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Difference as Punishment or Difference as Pleasure

Barolini¹

2019

Textual Cultures

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Dante’s linguistic treatise, De vulgari eloquentia, is not without joy in linguistic difference and invention. However, the treatise’s signature attitude toward linguistic difference is signaled early in Book 1 by the powerfully punitive account of the Tower of Babel. Linguistic diversity, aka “confusion of tongues”, is the punishment meted out to Nimrod and his followers for their presumptuous building of the Tower of Babel: thus, difference is punishment. This essay traces Dante’s evolution as he moves from De vulgari eloquentia to the encounter with Nembrot (as Dante calls Nimrod) in Inferno 31 to Adam’s great discourse on linguistic creation in Paradiso 26: from difference as punishment to difference as pleasure. Dante’s evolution in the linguistic sphere correlates moreover with another transition: from the treatise’s castigation of Eve as a speaker, presumptuosissima Eva, to the Beatrix loquax of Paradiso.

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“…19. For the construction of Beatrice in the Commedia, see my "Notes toward a Gendered History of Italian Literature, with a Discussion of Dante's Beatrix loquax" [Barolini 2006].…”

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Bridge Essay: Vernacularization and World Literature: The Language of Women in the World of God

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2019

A Companion to World Literature

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Given Dante's prominent place in discussions of vernacularization, this chapter reconsiders the substance of Dante's theories and their relationship to his poetic practice. It proposes an investigation of vernacularization that encompasses not only the choice to write in the vernacular but also the decision to transmit those works. Taking up Dante's definition of the vernacular as the language of women, it argues that while Dante can use the vernacular in the world of God, the interventions of other mediators (scribes, editors, commentators) are necessary for the work to survive across time and communicate to future generations.

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Divine Comedy

Barolini¹

2022

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Notes Toward a Gendered History of Italian Literature, with a Discussion of Dante's Beatrix Loquax

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Difference as Punishment or Difference as Pleasure

Difference as Punishment or Difference as Pleasure

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