Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rdxmf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-29T00:37:24.788Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

16 - Later Reception from 1481 to the Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2018

Zygmunt G. Barański
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Simon Gilson
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Get access

Summary

This chapter examines the reception of Dante’s Commedia from the late fifteenth century to the present day, reconstructing the ways Dante’s work enters the canon of world literature after suffering oblivion throughout the early modern age. By keeping a strongly intermedial perspective – the chapter does not only cover editions and translations of the Commedia, but also literary, theatrical, visual, and cinematic works inspired by it –,  it proposes a new periodization of Dante’s reception. The first section covers the years from the Florentine edition of 1481 to 1766, examining what is arguably the lowest point in the history of Dante’s fame. The second section moves from 1767 – the first complete translation of the Commedia into a modern language – and covers the years up to 1830, witnessing the pan-European re-appreciation of Dante on the part of anti-Classicist and Romantic movements. The third section, ‘1831-1913’, focuses on the Italian and Anglo-American environments, examining the birth of a modern scholarship on Dante and the reception of the Commedia as the model for a totalizing work of art. The last one maps Dante’s presence in the twentieth century and beyond, and especially of the Inferno as a framework for narrativizing the horrors of the present.
Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×