29 novembre 2016
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A. Gilson Simon, « 7. The Wheeling Sevens », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.nwkfa6
Vertical reading might, at one level, be seen as a reaction to the Lectura Dantis, the formalized, often institutionalized, reading of a single canto that began with Boccaccio and continues to this day. For Dante’s early readers, and probably for at least the first two centuries after his death, the Lectura was a means not simply of explaining the poem but of making Dante authoritative in relation to classical authors, treating major theoretical debates, defining his and one’s own literary an...