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Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy : from Muslim Spain to post-colonial Italy / Andrea Celli.

9783031074028 (electronic bk.)
3031074025 (electronic bk.)
9783031074011
3031074017

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

English

1 online resource : illustrations (color).

10.1007/978-3-031-07402-8 doi

PQ4423.A2

851/.1

In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dantes Comedy be Mediterranean? Is it because of its Greek-Arabic and Islamic sources? Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy analyzes the ideological function of references to the sea in the study of the Comedy undertaken by Enrico Cerulli, a scholar of Somali-Ethiopian languages, and a colonial governor of Italian East Africa. Then it presents novel lines of inquiry on the reception and appropriation of the poem, such as the presence of Islamic sources in early commentaries of the Comedy, and cross-cultural allusions to Dantes Hell in some graffiti on the walls of the Spanish Inquisition prison in Palermo. The image of the Mediterranean that seeps through the poem and through the history of its circulation is vivid yet hardly idyllic. Andrea Celli is Associate Professor of Italian and Mediterranean Studies at the University of Connecticut, USA.

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