Thanks so much. This looks quite helpful.
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Steven Botterill wrote:
> >A choreographer at New York City Ballet intends to stage Nathaniel
> >Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter," and has asked me if I know of any
> >Italian or Clasical antecedents to this short story (aka "The Daughter of
> >Signor Rappaccini"). Since I am in a small Italian town with limited
> >bibliographic resources for the summer, I hope that someone might be able
> >to point me in the right direction for an answer. I believe that Octavio
> >Paz did a dramatization of the story, but I know of no other staging of
> >the Hawthorne piece.
> >
>
> For what it may be worth, L. A. Cuddy, "The Purgatorial Garden of Hawthorne
> and Dante: Irony and Redefinition in _Rappaccini's Daughter_", _Modern
> Language Studies_, 17 (1987), no. 1: 39-53, argues that the Earthly
> Paradise episode in Dante's _Purgatorio_ (cantos XXVIII-XXXIII) is "the
> likely, if ironic, source" for the setting of the story.
>
> Steven Botterill
>
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