In the Footsteps of Dante : : Crossroads of European Humanism / / ed. by Joao R. Figueiredo, Teresa Bartolomei.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Almeida, Isabel,; Ascoli, Albert Russell,; Bartolomei, Teresa,; Bolzoni, Lina,; Carvalho, Jorge Vaz de,; De Mendonça, José Tolentino,; Espírito Santo, Arnaldo do,; Ferroni, Giulio,; Figueiredo, João R.,; Manguel, Alberto,; Marnoto, Rita,; Nasti, Paola,; Ossola, Carlo,
• HerausgeberIn: Bartolomei, Teresa,; Figueiredo, Joao R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Mimesis : Romanische Literaturen der Welt , 99
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 297 p.)

Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the "Great Beyond" (Manguel). Following in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going à rebours, but a commitment to the future, to exploring the potential of humanity to "transhumanise". This dynamic of self-transcendence in Dante’s humanism (Ossola), which claims for European civilisation a vocation for universalism (Ferroni), is analysed in the volume at three crucial moments: Firstly, the establishment of an emancipatory relationship between author and reader (Ascoli), in which authorship is authority and not power; secondly, the conception of vision as a learning process and horizon of eschatological overcoming (Mendonça); finally, the relationship with the past, which is never purely monumental, but ethically and intertextually dynamic, in an original rewriting of the original scriptural, medieval, and classical culture (Nasti, Bolzoni, Bartolomei). A second group of contributions is dedicated to the reconstruction of Dante’s presence in Portuguese literature (Almeida, Espírito Santo, Figueiredo, Marnoto, Vaz de Carvalho): they attest to the innovative impact of Dante’s work even in literary traditions more distant from it.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- We Are All Called upon to Build Visions -- Section I: Dante. A Poet of Our Time -- “Supra te et non subter”: The Biblical Humanism of the Comedy -- Biblical Signa and Dante’s Words: For a Taxonomy of Biblical Intertextuality in the Comedy -- Dante and the Faith of the Reader -- Dante: Talking to the Dead – Giving a Voice to Silence -- Dante: Memory Matters in the Comedy -- Dante, Poet of a Europe to Come -- Section II: Dante in Portugal -- Dante in the Century of Camões -- Dante and Camões: Epic and the Portrayal of Humanity -- Dante and the Fifth Empire -- Dante in Portugal: An Ethereal Gaze -- Dante: Poetry and Translation -- Epilogue -- Dante the Geographer -- Editions and Translations -- Notes on Contributors -- General Index