“Accessus ad Auctores”: Studies in Honor of Christopher Kleinhenz

Edited by Fabian Alfie and Andrea Dini
2011 | 506 + xxii pp. | 9 ills. | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 978-0-86698-445-4 | MRTS 397
$75 | £60

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Few scholars of the Middle Ages are as respected and admired as Christopher Kleinhenz. A professor of Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1969, Professor Kleinhenz has published numerous studies on Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, as well as the minor authors of Italian literature. Yet his influence goes far beyond the field of Italian studies. Medievalists of all stripes, whether dealing with France, Germany, Spain or England, esteem Professor Kleinhenz and his work. Not only is his scholarship of the highest quality, but he understands the cultural interactions that defined the Middle Ages. And his affable character has made him many friends across the academy.

This is a collection of scholarly articles to celebrate this distinguished man and his career. Twenty-seven scholars show their admiration of Professor Kleinhenz by contributing to the collection. The essays range in topic from the French romances and their reception in Italy, to the literature, language and culture of Italy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Dante, and Petrarchism. Numerous contributors also study previously unedited manuscripts, demonstrating that, as Professor Kleinhenz teaches, much philological and codicological work still remains to be done. The collection’s breadth of topics will appeal to scholars of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, particularly those who work on France, Italy, Petrarch and Dante.

Table of Contents

  • Robert J. Rodini, University of Wisconsin-Madison— Preface

  • Douglas Kelly, University of Wisconsin-Madison— The Ordonnance of the Quest in Jean Froissart’s Meliador

  • Norris Lacy, Pennsylvania State University— From Le Chevalier as deus espees to the Prose Yvain

  • Keith Busby, University of Wisconsin-Madison— Chrétien in Italy

  • Michelangelo Picone, Università di Zurigo— Tracce tristaniane nella lirica dei siciliani

  • Samuel N. Rosenberg, Indiana University— Galeotto Before the Fall

  • Leslie Zarker Morgan, Loyola University, Maryland— Literary Afterlives in Huon d’Auverne: “The Art of [Dantean] Citation”

  • Richard Lansing, Brandeis University— The Narrative Structure of the Vita Nova

  • Ernesto Livorni, University of Wisconsin-Madison— Dream and Vision in Dante’s Vita Nova

  • Dino Cervigni, University of North Carolina— Re-Configuring the Self through Suffering, Violence, and Death in Dante’s Vita nuova and Comedy

  • Fabian Alfie, University of Arizona— Sixteenth-Century Criticism of Dante’s Tenzone with Forese Donati: Vincenzo Borghini’s “De’ poeti antichi toscani”

  • Gloria Allaire, University of Kentucky— Dante Equestrian

  • Madison Sowell, Brigham Young University— “Quanto si convenia a tanto uccello” (Inf. 34.47): Dante’s Satan as Winged Phallus

  • Emilio Pasquini, Università di Bologna— Dal tema del pellegrinaggio alle icone della musica: per una rivisitazione di Purgatorio II

  • Margherita Pampinella Cropper— Philomela: The “Civic” Rape of the Empire

  • Zygmunt Baranski, University of Cambridge— Appunti su Guglielmo Maramauro, sull’auctoritas e sulla “lettura” di Dante nel Trecento

  • Mary Watt, University of Florida— “Quella Dolce Terra Latina”: The Dantesque Landscape of Moravia’s La Ciociara (“Two Women”)

  • Teresa Gualtieri-Clark, University of Wisconsin-Madison (alumna)— The Portrayal of Falconry in Encyclopedic Literature: The Sport Meets the Scholar

  • Alan R. Perry, Gettysburg College— “Venite a laudare”: Reflections of the Marian Cult in Il Laudario di Cortona

  • Janice Aski, Ohio State University— Il vi prometto — ve lo intendo dimostrare: Variable double object clitic clusters in the Decameron and Medieval Florentine

  • Dario del Puppo, Trinity College— Literary Imagination and Mercantile Pragmatism in Goro Dati’s Sfera

  • Tonia Triggiano, Dominican University— The Newberry Library’s Italian Prayer Roll: Evidence for Piety and Novelty

  • Giancarlo Maiorino, Indiana University— Kairos: The Renaissance Reconstruction of the Best of All Possible Times

  • Dolly Weber, University of Illinois at Chicago— Reading Through the Text: Lives of Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Christine de Pizan and Pietro Aretino

  • Ilona Klein, Brigham Young University— Walters MS W720: Chapters to Be Observed by the Singers of the Cappella Giulia (1574)

  • Veena Kumar Carlson, Dominican University— Lettere di una Donna Incerta: Unpublished Letters and Sonnets of Chiara Matraini

  • Fiora A. Bassanese, University of Massachusetts Boston—Sixteenth Century Petrarchiste and the Reinvention of the Medieval Blazon

  • Victoria Kirkham, University of Pennsylvania—Literary Pastimes of a Paduan Jurist: Boccaccio, Petrarca, and Marco Mantova Benavides

  • H. Wayne Storey, Indiana University—The Economics of Authority: Bembo, Vellutello, and the Reconstruction of the “Authentic Petrarch”