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This collection of essays is the first comprehensive study on Dante
and satire within his entire corpus that has been published. Its
title evokes the moment when Virgil leads Dante through Limbo, the
uppermost portion of Hell. There, they are joined by four classical
poets, and Virgil describes one of them as "Horace the satirist"
("Orazio satiro," 4:89). By applying the expression to Dante
himself, this volume seeks to explore the satirical elements in his
works. Although Dante is not typically described as a satirist,
anyone familiar with his works will recognize the strong satirical
element in his many writings. Ultimately, this study shows that
Dante engages in satire in order to attain the primary literary
tool at his disposal for his prophetic objectives: the castigation
of vice.
Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy
proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in Italy
during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and opens the way
for an innovative understanding of Dante's masterpiece. The Middle
Ages in Italy offer a wealth of vernacular poetic
invectives-polemical verses aimed at blaming specific wrongdoings
of an individual, group, city or institution- that are both
understudied and rarely juxtaposed. No study has yet provided a
scholarly examination of the connection between this medieval
invective tradition, and its elements of humor, derision, and
reprehension in Dante's Comedy. This book argues that these comic
texts are rooted in and actively engaged with the social,
political, and religious conflicts of their time. Political
invective has a dynamic ethical orientation that is mediated by a
humor that disarms excessive hostility against its individual
targets, providing an opening for dialogue. While exploring
medieval comic poems by Rustico Filippi (from Florence), Cecco
Angiolieri (from Siena), and Folgore da San Gimignano, this study
unveils new biographical data about these poets retrieved from
Italian state archives (most of these data are published here in
English for the very first time), and ultimately shows what the
medieval invective tradition can add to our understanding of
Dante's Comedy.
As Virgil leads Dante through Limbo, the uppermost portion of Hell,
they are joined by four classical poets, and Virgil describes one
of them as "Horace the satirist" ("Orazio satiro," 4:89). This
collection of essays applies the expression to Dante himself in
order to emphasize the satirical elements of his works. Although
Dante is not typically described as a satirist, anyone familiar
with his works will recognize the strong satirical element in his
many writings. By exploring the satiric elements in Dante's
literature, these essays explore the primary literary tool at his
disposal for his prophetic objectives: the castigation of vice.
This collection of essay is the first comprehensive study on Dante
and satire within his entire corpus that has ever been published.
Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy
proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in Italy
during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and opens the way
for an innovative understanding of Dante’s masterpiece. The
Middle Ages in Italy offer a wealth of vernacular poetic
invectives—polemical verses aimed at blaming specific wrongdoings
of an individual, group, city or institution— that are both
understudied and rarely juxtaposed. No study has yet provided a
scholarly examination of the connection between this medieval
invective tradition, and its elements of humor, derision, and
reprehension in Dante’s Comedy. This book argues that these comic
texts are rooted in and actively engaged with the social,
political, and religious conflicts of their time. Political
invective has a dynamic ethical orientation that is mediated by a
humor that disarms excessive hostility against its individual
targets, providing an opening for dialogue. While exploring
medieval comic poems by Rustico Filippi (from Florence), Cecco
Angiolieri (from Siena), and Folgore da San Gimignano, this study
unveils new biographical data about these poets retrieved from
Italian state archives (most of these data are published here in
English for the very first time), and ultimately shows what the
medieval invective tradition can add to our understanding of
Dante’s Comedy.
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