Dante and the Franciscans / / edited by Santa Casciani.

• Superior document: The Medieval Franciscans ; 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Casciani, Santa,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The Medieval Franciscans ; 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (371 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Only the second volume dedicated to Dante and the Franciscans, this collection of essays offers a Franciscan reading of the Divine Comedy. Nine of the ten essays address how Dante's Comedy and his Vita Nuova were influenced by Franciscan spirituality; the tenth essay addresses the influence that Dante's Comedy had on the preaching of the Franciscan Order. More specifically, the essays in this volume are truly interdisciplinary and contribute to the understanding of how Dante understood and employed Franciscan sources in his literary production and how Bernardino of Siena integrated Dante's work in his preaching.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction - Santa Casciani -- Dante, Peter John Olivi, and the Franciscan Apocalypse - V.S. Benfell III -- Clarissan Spirituality and Dante - Tonia Bernardi Triggiano -- Bernardino: Reader of Dante - Santa Casciani -- What Dante Learned from St Francis - William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman -- A Franciscan explanation of Dante's cinquecento diece e cinque - Elvira Giosi -- Dante's Franciscanism - Giuseppe Mazzotta -- The Life of the World to Come: The Franciscan Character of Paradiso - Amanda D. Quantz -- The Cross as te in "The Canticle of Creatures," Dante's "Virgin Mother," and Chaucer's - "Invocation to Mary" - Sister Lucia Treanor -- Pax et bonum: Dante's Depiction of Francis of Assisi in Paradiso 11 - Alessandro Vettori -- Vestiges and Communities: Franciscan Traces in Dante's New Life - Brenda Wirkus -- Index.