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I am writing regarding a forthcoming volume of essays honoring John
Freccero, to offer you the opportunity to have your name listed in its
Tabula Gratulatoria and to receive a copy of this volume at a
pre-publication discount. Below you will find a table of contents and a
brief description of the volume, as well as an order form. If you wish to
be included in the Tabula Gratulatoria and to receive a copy at the
discounted rate (Euro 37.50 -- approx. US $38 -- incl. sales taxes,
excluding postage), you must send an e-mail to the publisher (Dr. Simon
Forde, Publishing Manager, Brepols Publishers) at [log in to unmask],
informing him that you wish to be included, AND fill out and (snail)mail
the form, before FEBRUARY 29, 2000. This deadline has been extended from
the originial one given in a mailing that many of you may have received
earlier this month. Please help spread the word by forwarding this message
to anyone you think might be interested in participating.
Sincerely,
Dana E. Stewart
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Sparks and Seeds: Medieval Literature and its Afterlife. Essays in Honor of
John Freccero.
Edited by Dana E. Stewart and Alison Cornish, with an introduction by
Giuseppe Mazzotta.
Binghamton Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 2, Brepols, 2000.
Below is a list of the contributions to the volume honoring John Freccero.
All of the authors are former students of Freccero, now professors at
various institutions. The title of the volume alludes to a famous passage
in Dante's Purgatory, where the poet Statius acknowledges his debt to
Virgil: "The sparks that warmed me, the seeds of my ardor, were from the
holy fire--the same that gave more than a thousand poets light and flame."
(Purgatory 21, 94-96, trans. Allen Mandelbaum) The title both expresses
our gratitude to Professor Freccero and commemorates his extraordinary
influence on scholars working in a wide range of fields and time periods.
Despite the diverse expertise of their authors (fairly evenly divided
between Italianists and scholars of English and Comparative Literature),
all of the articles included in the volume appertain to Italian
literature--from Dennis Costa's literary analysis of Bonaventure's
Itinerarium to Patricia Parker's tracing of the State of Maryland's
medieval Italian motto back through its English Renaissance sources. As
could be expected, many of the pieces are concerned with Dante directly
(Kleiner, Schnapp, Nohrnberg, Jacoff, Cornish, Ginsberg, Hawkins,
Chiarenza), and several others dealing with medieval and Renaissance
Italian subjects do so indirectly (Costa, Stephens, Quint). Two are
concerned with pre-modern cultural and literary implications of the history
of science (Stewart; Reeves); the remainder trace the afterlife of medieval
or Renaissance Italian motifs in modern culture (Parker, West, Marcus).
Thus, despite the fact that the articles range from medieval scholasticism
to twentieth-century cinema, there is a clear strain of the applications of
medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, influenced, above all, by the
teaching and scholarship of John Freccero.
Introduction: Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University)
1. Costa, Dennis. (Boston University.) "Conversion to the Text's Terms:
Processes of Signification in Bonaventure's Itinerarium Mentis in Deum."
2. Stewart, Dana. (SUNY Binghamton.) "Spirits of Love: Subjectivity,
Gender, and Optics in the Lyrics of Guido Cavalcanti."
3. Kleiner, John. (Williams College.) "On Failing One's Teachers: Dante,
Virgil, and the Ironies of Instruction."
4. Schnapp, Jeffrey. (Stanford University.) "Lectura Dantis: Inferno 30."
5. Nohrnberg, James. (University of Virginia.) "The Love that Moves the
Sun and Other Stars in Dante's Hell."
6. Jacoff, Rachel. (Wellesley College.) "‘Our Bodies, Our Selves': The
Body in the Commedia."
7. Cornish, Alison. (University of Michigan.) "Telling Time in Purgatory."
8. Ginsberg, Warren. (SUNY Albany.) "Dante's Aesthetics of Being."
9. Hawkins, Peter. (Yale Divinity School.) "‘Are You Here?': Surprise in
the Commedia."
10. Chiarenza, Marguerite. (University of British Columbia.) "Solomon's
Song in the Divine Comedy."
11. Stephens, Walter. (Johns Hopkins University.) "Tasso as Ulysses."
12. Quint, David. (Yale University.) "The Debate Between Arms and Letters
in the Gerusalemme Liberata."
13. Reeves, Eileen. (Princeton University.) "Representing Invention: The
Telescope as News."
14. Parker, Patricia. (Stanford University.) "Fatti Maschii, Parole
Femine: Manly Deeds, Womanly Words."
15. West, Rebecca. (University of Chicago.) "Desire, Displacement,
Digression: Rhetorical Ramification in Giorgio Manganelli's Amore and Tutti
gli errori."
16. Marcus, Millicent. (University of Pennsylvania.) "The Italian Body
Politic is a Woman: Feminized National Identity in Postwar Italian Film."
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