Series | Medieval and Modern Philologies
Volume 22 | Monograph | Beyond the ‘Classical’ Sources

Beyond the ‘Classical’ Sources

Dante’s Epistles and the Thirteenth-Century Practice of the ars dictaminis

open access | peer reviewed

Benoît Grévin - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France - email

Abstract
Many enquiries about Dante’s epistles are aimed at pinpointing Dantean features and personal traits: this literary perspective is mainly concerned with his reuse of classical auctoritates or the novelty of his metaphors. This book proposes another complementary method for approaching the issue, that is to say a systematic study concerning the ‘formulaic points of contact’ between Dante’s epistles and the Italian Duecento epistolary tradition contained in those pontifical, imperial and municipal summae dictaminis that might have influenced Dante. The clauses taken for comparison are principally selected through the frame of the letters’ semi-rhythmic structure: there, automatism or semi-automatism imposed on writing through cursus rhythmicus raises compelling issues. The results of such an investigation show the potential of a systematic approach that aims at contextualizing Dante’s letters within both the teaching logic and the rhetorical practice of the Italian Duecento.

Keywords Summae dictaminis • Cursus rhythmicus • Intertextuality • Ars dictaminis • Epistles • Dante

Copyright © 2020 Benoît Grévin. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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2 Metodologia dell’inchiesta
Il corpus di base e la raccolta dei paralleli e degli echi
Oct. 24, 2020

3 Presentazione e analisi ragionata dei paralleli stricto sensu
Oct. 24, 2020

4 Al di là dei paralleli stretti
Giochi di echi e di formule strutturalmente analoghe
Oct. 24, 2020

5 Tra echi formali e echi concettuali
Abbozzi di ‘nuvole semantiche’
Oct. 24, 2020

6 I paralleli concettuali tra Dante e il dictamen duecentesco al di là degli echi formali
Il caso della lettera XI ai cardinali
Oct. 24, 2020

7 Dante e il dictamen duecentesco, piste e ipotesi
Oct. 24, 2020

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dc.creator	Grévin Benoît
dc.title	Beyond the ‘Classical’ Sources. Dante’s Epistles and the Thirteenth-Century Practice of the ars dictaminis
dc.type	Monograph
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dc.description.abstract	Many enquiries about Dante’s epistles are aimed at pinpointing Dantean features and personal traits: this literary perspective is mainly concerned with his reuse of classical auctoritates or the novelty of his metaphors. This book proposes another complementary method for approaching the issue, that is to say a systematic study concerning the ‘formulaic points of contact’ between Dante’s epistles and the Italian Duecento epistolary tradition contained in those pontifical, imperial and municipal summae dictaminis that might have influenced Dante. The clauses taken for comparison are principally selected through the frame of the letters’ semi-rhythmic structure: there, automatism or semi-automatism imposed on writing through cursus rhythmicus raises compelling issues. The results of such an investigation show the potential of a systematic approach that aims at contextualizing Dante’s letters within both the teaching logic and the rhetorical practice of the Italian Duecento.
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dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-448-6
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-10-23
dc.dateAccepted	2020-07-19
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-07-02
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dc.subject	Ars dictaminis
dc.subject	Cursus rhythmicus
dc.subject	Dante
dc.subject	Epistles
dc.subject	Intertextuality
dc.subject	Summae dictaminis
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