At 09:02 PM 3/15/02 +0000, Helen Conrad-O'Briain wrote: >I have a student who is interested in working on Dante's possible use of >Vergilian commentaries. Would anyone have any suggestions on must read >material?
On Dante and Servius: - Edward Kennard Rand, "Dante and Servius," Dante Studies 33 (1916), 1-11 - Ernst von Richthofen, "Traces of Servius in Dante," Dante Studies 92 (1974), 117-128 Did Dante use the commentary attributed to Bernardus Silvestris? - pro: David Thompson, Dante's Epic Journeys (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974), chs. 2 and 9 - contra: Robert Hollander, Allegory in Dante's Commedia (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969), pp. 96-103 and idem, Studies in Dante, pp. 71-81. See also Ulrich Leo, "The Unfinished Convivio and Dante's Rereading of the Aeneid," Medieval Studies 13 (1951), 41-64, repr. in idem, Sehen und Wirklichkeit bei Dante (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermenn, 1957), pp. 71-104. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Macalester College Virgil Tradition: discussion, bibliography, &c. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
