Dante’s Performance : Music, Dance, and Drama in the “Commedia”

Ciabattoni, Francesco

doi:10.1515/9783111406497

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Ciabattoni, Francesco

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Abstract

Dante’s Commedia abounds with scenes of liturgical drama, sacred songs, and dance performance. The sacred poem represents the afterlife with great poetic force thanks to the richness of its performed theology. Dante’s Performance opens a new perspective from which to consider the Florentine poet’s masterpiece by offering the modern reader a philological and historical reconstruction of its performative context in medieval Italy.

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Keywords

Dante Alighieri; Italian literature; medieval literature; musicology; thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AD Romance, Italic and Rhaeto-Romanic languages::2ADT Italian; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500::3KL c 1000 CE to c 1500::3KLW 14th century, c 1300 to c 1399::3KLWB Early 14th century c 1300 to c 1350; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DD Plays, playscripts::DDA Classic and pre-20th century plays; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSC Literary studies: poetry and poets