Volume 1 (2018) Dante and Music

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This inaugural issue of Bibliotheca Dantesca features articles derived from a conference on "Dante and Music"
that was held at the University of Pennsylvania on November 5-6, 2015, to commemorate the 750th
anniversary of the poet's birth. The essays in this collection explore both the presence of music in Dante's works
and the reception of his poetry in musical repertoires throughout the centuries. With the support of the Penn
Libraries, Bibliotheca Dantesca represents the result of a productive collaboration between the students of
Penn’s Italian Studies doctoral program, who were its first promoters, the faculty in the program, and the
Center for Italian Studies. The journal's purpose is to produce scholarship that investigates the work of Dante
and its reception in a widely interdisciplinary perspective. At Penn, the Italian Studies program and the Center
actively collaborate in organizing events devoted to Dante, such as the Imelde Della Valle Lectures, Lecturae
Dantis, talks, conferences, concerts, films, and theatrical performances. The Department of Romance
Languages, of which the Italian Studies program is a section, regularly offers courses devoted to Dante and his
world, in conjunction with the interdisciplinary program in Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Bibliotheca Dantesca thus consolidates the strong commitment of Penn and its Italian Studies community to
Dante scholarship in a timely way, by starting its publication celebrating Dante's birth, and also looking ahead
to the 2021 anniversary of his death

Articles

“CANZONE... T’HO ALLEVATO PER FIGLIUOLA D’AMORE:” THREE SONGS OF LOVE IN DANTE’S ‘VITA
NUOVA’
Alfred R. Crudale

“SCORES FOR A PARTICULAR CHEMICAL ORCHESTRA:” THE ‘COMMEDIA’ AND THE MATTER OF
SOUND IN OSIP MANDELSTAM’S ‘CONVERSATION ABOUT DANTE’
Andrea Gazzoni
DANTE DECRYPTED: MUSICA UNIVERSALIS IN THE TEXTUAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE ‘COMMEDIA’
C.S. Adoyo

IRONIZING UGOLINO
David Heinsen

STASIS AND CARNAL SONG: DANTE’S MEDUSA AND THE SIREN

Fiorentina Russo

“TEMPRANDO COL DOLCE L’ACERBO:” INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL POLYPHONY IN THE ‘COMMEDIA’
Francesco Ciabattoni

SINGING FOR DANTE IN ‘PURGATORIO’ 30–31

Helena Phillips-Robins

CONVERSATIONS WITH FRANCESCA: TCHAIKOVSKY, LISZT, AND WAGNER (AND ZANDONAI AND
GRANADOS AND RACHMANINOV) GO TO HELL
Jess Tyre

“DENTRO A LA DANZA DE LE QUATTRO BELLE” (PURG. 31.104): DANCE IN DANTE’S ‘COMMEDIA’

Madison U. Sowell

NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSICAL ADAPTATIONS OF DANTE’S ‘COMMEDIA’:

‘DANTE’S GREATEST HITS’
Maria Ann Roglieri

DANTE, LISZT, AND THE ALIENATED AGONY OF HELL

Tekla Babyak

FROM CASELLA TO CACCIAGUIDA: A MUSICAL PROGRESSION TOWARD INNOCENCE

Thomas E. Peterson

MUSIC AND THE ACT OF SONG IN DANTE’S ‘PURGATORIO’ AND ‘PARADISO’

Kevin Brownlee