IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1122: Ancient Presences, I: Virgil, Ovid, and Dante
Wednesday 13 July 2005, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, Ohio State University |
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Organiser: | Frank T. Coulson, Department of Greek & Latin, Ohio State University |
Moderator/Chair: | Gregory Hays, Department of Classics, University of Virginia |
Paper 1122-a | Virgil and Child (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Italian, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1122-b | The Neapolitan Manuscript of the Aeneid: A Systematic Account (Language: English) Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
Paper 1122-c | Dante and the Latin Commentary Tradition on Ovid (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Italian, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1122-d | Visualizing the Classical in a Sienese Renaissance Manuscript of the Divine Comedy (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Language and Literature - Italian, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | This session seeks to examine the influence of classical texts on Dante's Commedia. The papers all use manuscript evidence (either from the commentary tradition or from manuscript illumination) to elucidate various aspects of the interconnection between Dante and his sources. Shoaf treats an illumination in MS Roma, Biblioteca Angelica 1102 to speculate on how Dante read Virgil's poetry through shifting genders. Coulson discusses the relationship of the Latin commentary tradition on Ovid and Dante. And David examines the visualization of classicizing elements in the illuminations in a fifteenth-century Sienese manuscript of the Divine Comedy (Yates Thompson MS 36, British Library), which are heavily influenced by the 14th-century vernacular commentary known as the Ottimo Commento. |