Alighieri, Dante

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was saturated in the poetry of Dante, whose presence in his life was mediated by his father's lifelong Dante scholarship. This would be a fraught but defining relationship for Rossetti. As William Michael Rossetti would comment in his Memoir: 'Dante Alighi…

This dissertation offers a narrative reading of Dante’s use of the poetic form of the tenzone. I frame Dante’s tenzoni within the history of the form’s use in the Italian vernacular tradition, beginning with Giacomo da Lentini and the scuola siciliana. The practice of writing te…