Nasti-00FM_Layout 1 11/11/13 1:28 PM Page i INTERPRETING DANTE © 2013 University of Notre Dame Nasti-00FM_Layout 1 11/11/13 1:28 PM Page ii Zygmunt G. Baranski, Theodore J. Cachey, Jr., and Christian Moevs, editors ´ —————— VOLUME 13 VOLUME 6 Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Understanding Dante Traditions of Dante Commentary • John A. Scott • edited by Paola Nasti and VOLUME 5 Claudia Rossignoli Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body VOLUME 12 Gary P. Cestaro Freedom Readers: The African • American Reception of Dante Alighieri VOLUME 4 and the Divine Comedy The Fiore and the Detto d’Amore: • Dennis Looney A Late 13th-Century Italian VOLUME 11 Translation of the Roman de la Rose, Dante’s Commedia: Theology as Poetry attributable to Dante • edited by Vittorio Montemaggi • Translated, with introduction and and Matthew Treherne notes, by Santa Casciani and Christopher Kleinhenz VOLUME 10 Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, VOLUME 3 Metaphysics, Tradition The Design in the Wax: The Structure edited by Zygmunt G. Baranski of the Divine Comedy and Its Meaning • ´ and Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. • Marc Cogan VOLUME 9 VOLUME 2 The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets The Fiore in Context: Dante, • Winthrop Wetherbee France, Tuscany edited by Zygmunt G. Baranski • ´ VOLUME 8 and Patrick Boyde Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers VOLUME 1 and Writers in Late Medieval Italy Dante Now: Current Trends • Justin Steinberg in Dante Studies VOLUME 7 • edited by Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture • Manuele Gragnolati © 2013 University of Notre Dame Nasti-00FM_Layout 1 11/11/13 1:28 PM Page iii @ INTERPRETING DANTE Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary Edited by Paola Nasti and Claudia Rossignoli UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS NOTRE DAME, INDIANA @ © 2013 University of Notre Dame Nasti-00FM_Layout 1 11/11/13 1:28 PM Page iv Copyright © 2013 by University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 www.undpress.nd.edu All Rights Reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Interpreting Dante : Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary / edited by Paola Nasti and Claudia Rossignoli. pages cm. — (The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978-0-268-03609-6 (pbk.) — ISBN 0-268-03609-8 (pbk.) 1. Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321—Criticism and interpretation. I. Nasti, Paola, editor of compilation. II. Rossignoli, Claudia, editor of compilation. PQ4390.I65 2014 851'.1—dc23 2013037186 ∞ The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources © 2013 University of Notre Dame Nasti-00FM_Layout 1 11/11/13 1:28 PM Page v The William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies at the Univer- sity of Notre Dame supports rare book acquisitions in the university’s John A. Zahm Dante collections, funds visiting professorships, and supports electronic and print publication of scholarly research in the field. In collaboration with the Medieval Institute at the university, the Devers program initiated a series dedicated to the publication of the most significant current scholarship in the field of Dante studies. In 2011, the scope of the series was expanded to encom- pass thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian literature. In keeping with the spirit that inspired the creation of the Devers pro- gram, the series takes Dante and medieval Italian literature as focal points that draw together the many disciplines and lines of inquiry that constitute a cul- tural tradition without fixed boundaries. Accordingly, the series hopes to il- luminate this cultural tradition within contemporary critical debates in the humanities by re flect ing both the highest quality of scholarly achievement and the greatest diversity of critical perspectives. The series publishes works from a wide variety of disciplinary viewpoints and in diverse scholarly genres, including critical studies, commentaries, edi- tions, reception studies, translations, and conference proceedings of excep- tional importance. The series enjoys the support of an international advi- sory board composed of distinguished scholars and is published regularly by the University of Notre Dame Press. The Dolphin and Anchor device that ap- pears on publications of the Devers series was used by the great humanist, grammarian, editor, and typographer Aldus Manutius (1449 –1515), in whose 1502 edition of Dante (second issue) and all subsequent editions it appeared. The device illustrates the ancient proverb Festina lente, “Hurry up slowly.” Zygmunt G. Baranski, Theodore J. Cachey, Jr., ´ and Christian Moevs, editors © 2013 University of Notre Dame Nasti-00FM_Layout 1 11/11/13 1:28 PM Page vi A B Albert Russell Ascoli, Berkeley Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia Piero Boitani, Rome Patrick Boyde, Cambridge Alison Cornish, Michigan Claire Honess, Leeds Christopher Kleinhenz, Wisconsin Giuseppe Ledda, Bologna Simone Marchesi, Princeton Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale Lino Pertile, Harvard John A. Scott, Western Australia © 2013 University of Notre Dame Nasti-00FM_Layout 1 11/11/13 1:28 PM Page vii @ Acknowledgments xi List of Illustrations xiii Introduction 1 Reading, Writing, and Speech in the Fourteenth- and Fifteenth- 17 Century Commentaries on Dante’s Comedy • Steven Botterill Allegory as Avoidance in Dante’s Early Commentators: 30 “bella menzogna” to “roza corteccia” • Robert Wilson Uses of Learning in the Dante Commentary of Iacomo della 53 Lana • Spencer Pearce How to Read the Early Commentaries • Saverio Bellomo 84 A Friar Critic: Guido da Pisa and the Carmelite Heritage 110 • Paola Nasti © 2013 University of Notre Dame Nasti-00FM_Layout 1 11/11/13 1:28 PM Page viii viii Contents Guido da Pisa’s “Chantilly” Dante: A Complex Exegetical System 180 • Lucia Battaglia Ricci Presenze del Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum nell’Ottimo 207 Commento alla Commedia • Massimiliano Corrado Pietro Alighieri and the Lexicon of the Comedy 239 • Massimiliano Chiamenti Modes of Reading in Boccaccio’s Esposizioni sopra la Comedia 250 • Simon Gilson Tipologie compositive e hapax nel Commento alla “Commedia” 283 di Francesco da Buti (con una nota sulla cultura grammaticale e lessicografica dell’autore) • Claudia Tardelli A “Commentary for the Court”: Guiniforte Barzizza 328 • Corrado Calenda A Text in Movement: Trifon Gabriele’s Annotationi nel Dante, 341 1527–1565 • Lino Pertile Castelvetro on Dante: Tradition, Innovation, and Mockery 359 in the Sposizione • Claudia Rossignoli A Pictorial Interpretation of Dante’s Commedia: 389 Federigo Zuccari’s Dante historiato • Andrea Mazzucchi © 2013 University of Notre Dame Nasti-00FM_Layout 1 11/11/13 1:28 PM Page ix Contents ix Notes on Nineteenth-Century Dante Commentaries 434 and Critical Editions • John Lindon List of Contributors 450 Index of Names and Subjects 458 Index of Passages from Dante’s Works 467 © 2013 University of Notre Dame Nasti-00FM_Layout 1 11/11/13 1:28 PM Page x © 2013 University of Notre Dame Nasti-00FM_Layout 1 11/11/13 1:28 PM Page xi @ We should like to thank the many people and institutions who contrib - uted to this project. Our gratitude goes first of all to the University of Manchester and the AHRC for financing the 2005 international confer- ence from which this volume partially stems. We are immensely grateful to the editorial board, the reviewers for the University of Notre Dame Press and the editors of the Dante Devers Series for allowing this project to come to its conclusion. Finally we owe immense thanks to the people who have supported us in the long and complex gestation of this book: Zygmunt Baranski ´ for his encouragement and expert advice and Anna Pegoretti and Lucia Battaglia Ricci for their enthusiasm and esteem. We would also like to thank the translators of the many contributions that were originally written in Italian: Avi Lang, Toby Wagstaff, Anne Leone, Paola Gotti, Anna Cavallaro, and Philippa Nickolds. Equally impor- tant recognition goes to our postgraduate editorial team: Stefano Bra gato (University of Reading) and Shanti Graheli (University of St. Andrews). They have all supported us with painstaking discipline, competence, and attention. We would not want to forget our families; since the inception of this project some have departed, some have arrived. They are our great- est assets. This volume is dedicated to our friend and colleague Massimiliano Chiamenti, a talented scholar and poet, whose contribution to the world of Dante studies will be thoroughly missed. He showed great enthusiasm in Manchester and was excited at the idea of the publication of our vol- ume on the Dante commentary tradition. Unfortunately, his contribution to this project is now posthumous. © 2013 Universityxi of Notre Dame Nasti-00FM_Layout 1 11/11/13 1:28 PM Page xii xii Acknowledgments Special thanks are due to Demetrio S. Yocum from the series and vol- ume editors for his painstaking work in providing the majority of the En - glish translations of Italian quotations, including translations of primary sources, as well as for preparing the indexes to the volume. Translations of Dante’s Italian writings have been taken from standard editions, which are acknowledged in the notes. © 2013 University of Notre Dame Nasti-00FM_Layout 1 11/11/13 1:28 PM Page xiii @ The illustrations, in chapters 6 and 14, follow pp. 200 and 416, respectively. Figure 6.1. Ms. Chantilly, Musée Condé 597, fol. 1r: Dante, Inf. 1: Dante auc- tor at his desk and the poet Virgil. Figure 6.2. Ibid., fol. 31r: Guido da Pisa, Expositiones, Prologus: The prophet Daniel interprets Baltasar’s vision; the commentator at his desk; the presen- tation of the book to Lucano Spinola (bas de page). Figure 6.3. Ibid., fol. 33v: Guido da Pisa, Expositiones, Deductio textus de vul- gari in latinum, Inf. 1: Sleeping Dante; Boniface and the jubilee, the empty imperial seat.