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The Oxford Handbook of

DANTE
Edited by
MANUELE GRAGNOLATI,
ELENA LOMBARDI,
and
FRANCESCA SOUTHERDEN

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Contents

Notes on Contributors xi
Editions and Translations xix
List of Illustrations xxi

Introduction: Dante Unbound: A Vulnerable Life and the

Openness of Interpretation xxiii
Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, and
Francesca Southerden

I . T E X T S A N D T E X T UA L I T Y
1. The Author 3
Justin Steinberg

2. Memory 17
Lina Bolzoni

3. Reading 34
Mary Carruthers

4. The Materiality of the Text and Manuscript Culture 49

Martin Eisner

5. The Manuscript Tradition, or on Editing Dante 63

Fabio Zinelli

6. Commentary (both by Dante and on Dante) 79

Luca Fiorentini

7. Digital Dante 96
Akash Kumar

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I I . DIA L O G U E S
8. The Classics 111
Zygmunt G. Barański

9. Roman de la Rose 127

Antonio Montefusco

10. Troubadours 142

William Burgwinkle

11. Early Italian Lyric 158

Roberto Rea

12. Comic Culture 173

Fabian Alfie

13. Visual Culture 188

Gervase Rosser

I I I . T R A N SF OR M I N G K N OW L E D G E
14. Encyclopaedism 211
Franziska Meier

15. Medicine 227

Natascia Tonelli

16. Visual Theory 242

Simon Gilson

17. The Law 257

Diego Quaglioni

18. Politics 270

Tristan Kay

19. Philosophy and Theology 287

Pasquale Porro

20. Religion 302

Alessandro Vettori

21. Poetry 318

Elena Lombardi

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I V. SPAC E ( S ) A N D P L AC E S
22. Florence and Rome 337
Giuliano Milani

23. Civitas/Community 353

Elisa Brilli

24. The Mediterranean 368

Karla Mallette

25. The East 383

Brenda Deen Schildgen

26. Exile 399

Johannes Bartuschat

27. Travelling/Wandering/Mapping 415

Theodore J. Cachey Jr

28. Dante’s Other Worlds 431

Peter S. Hawkins

V. A PA S SIONAT E SE L F HO OD
29. Eschatological Anthropology 447
Manuele Gragnolati

30. Language 464

Heather Webb

31. The Mystical 480

Bernard McGinn

32. Bodies on Fire 494

Cary Howie

V I . A N ON - L I N E A R DA N T E
33. The Master Narrative and its Paradoxes 513
Nicolò Crisafi

34. Conversion, Palinody, Traces 529

Jennifer Rushworth

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35. The Lyric Mode 546

Francesca Southerden

36. Errancy: A Brief History of Dante’s Ferm Voler 563

Teodolinda Barolini

V I I . NAC H L E B E N
37. Translations 583
Martin McLaughlin

38. Dante and the Performing Arts 602

Rossend Arqués Corominas

39. Dante on Screen 619

John David Rhodes

40. Modernist Dante 634

Daniela Caselli

41. Dante and the Shoah 651

Lino Pertile

42. Dante in Caribbean Poetics: Language, Power, Race 668

Jason Allen-Paisant

43. Queering Dante 686

Gary Cestaro

44. A Decolonial Feminist Dante: Imperial

Historiography and Gender 701
Marguerite Waller

Index of Passages Cited from Dante’s Works 719

Index of Names 726
Index of Concepts and Places 739

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Notes of Contributors

Fabian Alfie is a Professor of Italian at the University of Arizona, whose specialization

is in the comic/satiric literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He is the author
of Dante’s Tenzone with Forese Donati: The Reprehension of Vice (2011). His most recent
publications are the translations Folgore da San Gimignano and His Followers: The
Complete Poems (2019), and with Aileen Astorga Feng, The Poetry of Burchiello:
Deep-Fried Nouns, Hunchbacked Pumpkins and Other Nonsense (2017).
Jason Allen-Paisant is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Leeds.
His research combines theatre and performance studies with poetics and critical theory.
He is the author of Théâtre dialectique postcolonial: Aimé Césaire et Derek Walcott
(2017), and of several essays and book chapters on theatre, poetics, and critical theory,
with reference to the Caribbean and the black Atlantic.
Rossend Arqués Corominas is Professor of Italian Literature at the Autonomous
University of Barcelona, a member of the Institute of Medieval Studies, and co-director
of the Dante e l’arte and Quaderns d’italià academic reviews. He has led the international
project ‘Dante visualizzato. Carte ridenti from XIV to XVI centuries’, of which he has
co-edited volumes i, iii and v (Florence: Cesati, 2017, 2019, 2020). He has published the
Spanish editions of Cavalcanti’s Poetry and Petrarch’s Secretum and various articles on
Dante, Cavalcanti, and Petrarch. He has coordinated, with Adriana Padoan, the Grande
Dizionario Spagnolo/Italiano (2012, 2020).
Zygmunt Guido Barański is Serena Professor of Italian Emeritus at the University of
Cambridge and R. L. Canala Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the
University of Notre Dame. He has published extensively on Dante, medieval Italian
literature, Dante’s reception, and on modern Italian literature, film, and culture. He has
recently published Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Literature, Doctrine, Reality (2020). He is
the senior editor of Le tre corone.
Teodolinda Barolini is Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Columbia University. A
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Accademia Nazionale
dei Lincei, Barolini served as fifteenth President of the Dante Society of America. She
is the author of Dante’s Poets (1984; Italian trans. 1993), The Undivine ‘Comedy’:
Detheologizing Dante (1992; Italian trans. 2003), Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary
Culture (2006; Italian trans. 2012), and a commentary to Dante’s lyric poetry (Italian ed.
2009, English ed. 2014). Barolini is Editor of Columbia’s Digital Dante website and has

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written the first online commentary to the Commedia (digitaldante.columbia.edu).

Johannes Bartuschat is Full Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Zurich.
He specializes in Italian Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. His
publications include essays on Dante, Brunetto Latini, Boccaccio, the history of Dante
criticism, the relationship between literature and figurative arts, and the book Les ‘Vies’
de Dante, Pétrarque et Boccace en Italie (XIV-XV siècles): Contribution à l’histoire du
genre biographique (2007). He has edited three issues of the Letture Classensi (38, 44, 45).
Lina Bolzoni is Professor Emeritus at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. She is a member
of the Accademia nazionale dei Lincei and a Fellow of the British Academy. Among her
publications, translated into several languages, are La stanza della memoria: Modelli
letterari e iconografici nell’età della stampa (1995), La rete delle immagini: Predicazione in
volgare dalle origini a Bernardino da Siena (2002), Poesia e ritratto nel Rinascimento (2008),
Il cuore di cristallo: Ragionamenti d’amore, poesia e ritratto nel Rinascimento (2010), and
Una meravigliosa solitudine: L’arte di leggere nell’Europa moderna (2019), which received
the Premio De Sanctis for innovative scholarly writing.
Elisa Brilli is Associate Professor of Medieval Italian Literature at the University of
Toronto. Her most recent publications include the monograph Firenze e il Profeta:
Dante fra teologia e politica (2012) and a critical edition of Arnold of Liège’s Alphabetum
Narrationum (2015). She has co-edited the volumes Faire l’anthropologie historique du
Moyen Age (2010), Images and Words in Exile (2015), and Agostino, agostiniani e
agostinismi nel Trecento Italiano (2018).
Bill (William) Burgwinkle is Emeritus Professor of Medieval French and Occitan
studies at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of King’s College. His books include
Love for Sale (1997), Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law: France and England, 1050–1230
(2004), and the co-authored volumes, Sanctity and Pornography in Medieval Culture:
On the Verge (2010), and Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Abroad (2020).
Theodore J. Cachey Jr is Professor of Italian Language and Literature and Ravarino
Family Director of the Center for Italian Studies and the Devers Program in Dante
Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He specializes in Italian Medieval and
Renaissance literature, in particular Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, the history of the
Italian language, cartography and literature, and the literature of travel. He is founder
and co-editor (with Zygmunt G. Barański and Christian Moevs) of the William and
Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature.
Mary Carruthers is Professor Emeritus of Literature at New York University and
Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her publications on medieval Latin
literary history include The Book of Memory (1990 and 2008) and The Craft of Thought
(1998), both of which have been translated into several languages including French and
Italian. Her most recent book is The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages (2014). She
is a fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, The British Academy, and The
Medieval Academy of America.

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Daniela Caselli is Professor of Modern Literature in the English Department at the

University of Manchester. She is the author of Improper Modernism: Djuna Barnes’s
Bewildering Corpus (2009) and Beckett’s Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and
Criticism (2005). Her work on modernism, gender and sexuality, and critical theory has
appeared in Feminist Theory (2010), The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and
Lesbian Literature (2015), Parallax (2016) and Comparative Literature (2017). She is
currently working on The Modernist Child, a monograph on the figure of the child in
early twentieth-century experimental literature.
Gary Cestaro is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and the
LGBTQ Studies Program at DePaul University in Chicago. He is the author of Dante
and the Grammar of the Nursing Body (2003) and editor of the collection Queer Italia:
Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film (2004). He is currently working on a
book entitled Dante’s Queer Genealogies.
Nicolò Crisafi is a postdoctoral fellow at ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
working on a project on ‘possibility and the utopian imagination in medieval Italian
literature’. His monograph Dante’s Masterplot and Narrative Pluralism in the ‘Commedia’
is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Martin Eisner is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at Duke University. He is the
author of Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature (2013) and Dante’s New Life of
the Book (2020). He also co-edited A Boccaccian Renaissance (2019). He is currently
preparing a biography of Boccaccio for Reaktion Books.
Luca Fiorentini is Research Assistant at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, where he
obtained his PhD in 2012. As Post-doctoral Fellow he was enrolled at the IISS in Naples,
at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, at the Collège de France, and at the University of
Toronto. In 2018, he was awarded the ‘Feltrinelli Giovani’ Prize for Art and Poetry
Criticism by the Accademia dei Lincei. He wrote the monographs Per Benvenuto da
Imola (2016) and Petrarch and Boccaccio in the First Commentaries on Dante’s ‘Commedia’
(2020). He also writes about contemporary literature for L’Indice dei libri del mese and
Alias Domenica-Il Manifesto.
Simon Gilson is Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford
and Fellow of Magdalen College. He is the author of Dante and Renaissance Florence
(2005; Italian translation 2019) and Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy: Florence, Venice
and the ‘Divine Poet’ (2018).
Manuele Gragnolati, Co-editor, is Professor of Medieval Italian Literature at Sorbonne
Université, Associate Director of the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, and
Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford. He is the author of Experiencing
the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture, (2005), Amor che move:
Linguaggio del corpo e forma del desiderio in Dante, Pasolini e Morante (2013), and
Possibilities of Lyric: Reading Petrarch in Dialogue (2020, with Francesca Southerden),
as well as the co-editor of several volumes, including Aspects of the Performative in

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Medieval Culture (2010), Dante’s Plurilingualism (2010), Metamorphosing Dante (2011),

Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages (2012), Vita nova. Fiore. Epistola XIII (2018).
Peter S. Hawkins is Professor of Religion and Literature Emeritus at Yale Divinity School
and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. His work has long centered on Dante—Dante’s
Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination (1999), The Poets’ Dante: Twentieth-Century
Reflections (2001), Dante: A Brief History (2006), Undiscovered Country: Imagining in the
World to Come (2009)—and, with Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, on biblical reception: Scrolls
of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs (2006), From the Margins: Women of the Hebrew Bible
and their Afterlives (2009), The Bible in the American Short Story (2017).
Cary Howie is the author of Transfiguring Medievalism: Poetry, Attention and the
Mysteries of the Body (2020), as well as Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in
Medieval Literature (2007) and, with Bill Burgwinkle, Sanctity and Pornography in
Medieval Culture: On the Verge (2010). He is an associate professor of Romance Studies
at Cornell University.
Tristan Kay is a Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Bristol. He is the author
of the monograph Dante’s Lyric Redemption: Eros, Salvation, Vernacular Tradition
(2016) and co-editor of the volumes Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages (2012) and
Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures (2011). His current monograph project,
The Poet and the Nation: Dante and the Idea of Italy, explores the ways in which the
figure of Dante has been used and exploited to construct and articulate different forms
of Italian national identity since the process of unification in the nineteenth century.
Akash Kumar is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Indiana University,
Bloomington, and an Associate Editor of Digital Dante. Recent work includes ‘Teddy
Roosevelt, Dante, and the Man in the Arena’ for Digital Dante (Columbia University
Libraries, 2018) and the essay ‘Walls of Inclusivity: Dante and World Literature’ for the
Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature (2020).
Elena Lombardi, Co-editor, is Professor of Italian Literature at Oxford, and the Paget
Toynbee Fellow at Balliol College. She is the author of The Syntax of Desire: Language
and Love in Augustine, the Modistae, Dante (2007), The Wings of the Doves: Love and
Desire in Dante and Medieval Culture (2012), and Imagining the Woman Reader in the
Age of Dante (2018).

Karla Mallette is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and

Literatures and Professor of Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Middle East
Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250:
A Literary History (2005), European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean (2010), and
a monograph in press, Lives of the Great Languages: Latin and Arabic in the Medieval
Mediterranean; she co-edited A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval
Literary History (2013). She has directed the Global Islamic Studies Center and the
Center for European Studies at Michigan.

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Bernard McGinn is the Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus at the

Divinity School of the University of Chicago, where he taught for thirty-four years. His
research and teaching have been in historical theology, especially the history of
apocalyptic thought and Christian spirituality and mysticism. His current main project
is a multi-volume history of Christian mysticism under the general title, The Presence
of God, eight volumes of which have been published between 1991 and 2020.
Martin McLaughlin was Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian at Oxford until 2017, and
is now an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He has published widely on
Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present, including Literary Imitation in
the Italian Renaissance (1995), Italo Calvino (1998), and Leon Battista Alberti: La vita,
l’umanesimo, le opere letterarie (2016). He has also co-edited three volumes relating to
Dante: Italy’s Three Crowns: Reading Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio (2007); Dante the
Lyric and Ethical Poet: Dante lirico e etico (2010); Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee
Lectures (2011).
Franziska Meier is Professor of French and Italian Literature at the Georg-August-University
in Göttingen, Germany, and the founder of the Göttinger Dante Forum. Her most recent
books include Dantes Göttliche Komödie: Eine Einführung (2018), Dante’s Convivio: Or
How to Restart Writing in Exile (2018), Poesia e Diritto nel Due e Trecento italiano (2019)
She is presently at work on a book on the reception of Dante.
Giuliano Milani is Professor of Medieval History at Université Gustave Eiffel (France).
His main research interest is the history of Italian city-communes. He has particularly
focused on practical uses of writings of images and on Dante’s life. His books include
L’homme à la bourse au cou: Génealogies et usage d’une image médiévale (2019, Italian
edn 2017), Bologna (2012), I comuni Italiani (2005), L’esclusione dal comune (2003). He
has co-edited with Teresa De Robertis, Laura Regnicoli, and Stefano Zamponi the new
Codice Diplomatico Dantesco (2016) and co-directed with Antonio Montefusco a
research project on ‘Dante through documents’.
Antonio Montefusco is Associate Professor of Medieval Philology at Ca’ Foscari
University of Venice. His research deals with the Franciscan Dissent in the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries and the history of intellectuals in the age of Dante; he directs
a European Research Council project about the social history of Medieval Translations.
His books include Iacopone nell’Umbria del Due-Trecento: Un’alternativa francescana;
he has also edited Italia senza nazione: Lingue culture conflitti nell’Italia medievale and
Le lettere di Dante: Ambienti culturali, contesti storici e circolazione dei saperi.
Lino Pertile is Carl  A.  Pescosolido Research Professor of Romance Languages and
Literatures, Harvard University, and member of the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome. He
served recently as Director of Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian
Renaissance Studies in Florence (2010–2015). His publications include The Cambridge
History of Italian Literature (co-ed. 1999) and essays on Dante (La puttana e il gigante: dal
Cantico dei Cantici al Paradiso terrestre di Dante (1998), La punta del disio: Semantica del
desiderio nella ‘Commedia’ (2005), Dante in Context (co-ed. 2017)), the Renaissance, and

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twentieth-century Italian literature. His new book, Dante popolare, is currently in press.
Pasquale Porro is Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy and Dante’s
Philosophy at the University of Turin, and Director of the Centre Pierre Abélard at
Sorbonne Université, Paris. He is Chief Editor of Quaestio: Yearbook of the History of
Metaphysics. He has published numerous articles and volumes on philosophy in late
antiquity and the medieval period, including Thomas Aquinas: A Historical and
Philosophical Profile (2017). He is currently working on a volume on Dante and Scholastic
thought and the new French edition of the Commedia in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
Diego Quaglioni is Professor of History of Medieval and Modern Law at the Law
School of the University of Trento. His most recent books include À une déesse inconnue.
La conception pré-moderne de la justice (2003), La sovranità (2004), Machiavelli e la
lingua della giurisprudenza (2011). He is the editor of Justice et armes au XVIe siècle
(with J.-C.  Zancarini, 2010), Die Anfänge des öffentlichen Rechts zwischen Mittelalter
und Moderne (with G. Dilcher, 3 vols, 2007, 2008, 2011). He is also the author of the
commentary to Monarchia in the new edition of Dante’s works directed by Marco
Santagata (2014).
Roberto Rea is Associate Professor of Italian Philology and Dantean Philology at the
University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’. He is the author of the following books: Studi
leopardiani (with Giorgio Brugnoli, 2001); Stilnovismo cavalcantiano e tradizione
cortese (2007); Cavalcanti poeta. Uno studio sul lessico lirico (2008); and the editor of
Guido Cavalcanti, Rime (with Giorgio Inglese, 2011) and Lapo Gianni, Rime (2019). He
is also co-editor, with Justin Steinberg, of the volume Dante (2020).
John David Rhodes is Reader in Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of
Cambridge, where he is Director of the Centre for Film and Screen. His published
books include Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini’s Rome (2007), Spectacle of Property:
The House in American Film (2017), and Antonioni: Centenary Essays (co-edited with
Laura Rascaroli, 2011).
Gervase Rosser is a Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford, and a Fellow
of St Catherine’s College. His publications include articles on Italian fourteenth-century
painting, which he continues to research, and a book on miraculous images, co-written
with Jane Garnett, Spectacular Miracles: Transforming Images in Italy from the
Renaissance to the Present (2013). His work on medieval confraternities was published
as The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages: Guilds in England 1250-1550 (2015).
Jennifer Rushworth is Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature at University
College London, having previously been a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College,
Oxford. She is the author of two books, Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and
Proust (2016) and Petrarch and the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France (2017).

Brenda Deen Schildgen is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature

at UC Davis, 2008 recipient of the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and

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Scholarly Achievement, and a recipient of NEH, PEW, and National Center for the
Humanities fellowships. Author of more than fifty articles focused on Dante, Petrarch,
and Boccaccio as well as Chaucer, Augustine, and biblical hermeneutics, among her
books are, most recently, a collected volume of essays, Reading the Past Across Space
and Time: Receptions and World Literature (2018); Divine Providence, A History: Bible,
Virgil, Orosius, Augustine, and Dante (2012); Other Renaissances: A New Approach to
World Literature (2006), translated into Arabic; Heritage or Heresy: Destruction and
Preservation of Art and Architecture in Europe (2008); Dante and the Orient (2002),
translated into Italian (2016) and Arabic (2009); Power and Prejudice: The Reception of
the Gospel of Mark (1999). Dante and Violence: Domestic, Civic, and Cosmic is
forthcoming with Notre Dame University Press.
Francesca Southerden, Co-editor, is Associate Professor of Medieval Italian at
Somerville College, Oxford. She has written several articles on Dante and Petrarch and
is the author of Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni (2012) and of
Possibilities of Lyric: Reading Petrarch in Dialogue (2020, with Manuele Gragnolati). She
is currently working on Dante and Petrarch in the Garden of Language.
Justin Steinberg is Professor of Medieval Italian Literature at the University of Chicago.
He is the author of Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval
Italy (2007), recipient of the MLA’s Scaglione Publication Prize and Dante and the
Limits of the Law (2014), recipient of the MLA’s Howard. R.  Marraro Prize. He is
currently writing a book on Boccaccio and procedural law. Professor Steinberg is also
the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Dante Studies.
Natascia Tonelli is Full Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Siena. Her
most recent books include: Fisiologia della passione: Poesia d’amore e medicina da
Cavalcanti a Boccaccio (2015); Per queste orme: Saggi sul Canzoniere di Petrarca (2016);
and Leggere il Canzoniere (2017). She is currently Principal Investigator of the national
project Petrarch’s ITINERA: Italian Trecento Intellectual Network and European
Renaissance Advent. She is a member of the Italian National Committee for Dante 2021.
Alessandro Vettori (PhD Yale 1995) is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature
at Rutgers University, USA. He is a specialist of medieval literature, the rewriting of
Scripture, and autobiography. His book-length publications include Poets of Divine
Love (2004), Giuseppe Berto, La passione della scrittura (2013), and Dante’s Prayerful
Pilgrimage (2019), besides edited and co-edited volumes on Boccaccio, Berto, and
contemporary Italian poetry. He has also published articles and book chapters on
Francis of Assisi, Iacopone da Todi, Boccaccio, and Dante.
Marguerite Waller was Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender and
Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She published extensively in
the areas of visual cultures, gender and sexuality, feminist political imaginaries, and
imperialism. Her books include Petrarch’s Poetics and Literary History (1980), Dialogue
and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization (2005), The Wages of Empire (2015),
Postcolonial Cinema Studies (2012), Federico Fellini: Contemporary Pespectives (2002),

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and the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini (2020). This is her third essay on
gender and sexuality in Dante’s Commedia.
Heather Webb (PhD Stanford 2004) taught for seven years at The Ohio State University
where she was Associate Professor of Italian. She has been at the University of
Cambridge since 2011 and is currently Reader in Medieval Italian Literature and Culture
and a Fellow of Selwyn College. She is the author of The Medieval Heart (2010) and
Dante’s Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman (2016). With George Corbett, she edited
Vertical Readings in Dante’s ‘Comedy’ in three volumes (2015–2017). She is presently
working on a monograph entitled Gestural Dante.
Fabio Zinelli is Directeur d’études in Romance Philology at the École Pratique des
Hautes Études, Paris Sciences Lettres (EPHE, PSL). His research interests range from
Medieval Italian Literature to Old French, Occitan, and Catalan Literatures, and
Contact Linguistics.

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