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Dante Metamorphoses: Episodes in a Literary Afterlife
Contemporary Review, June, 2004
Dante Metamorphoses: Episodes in a Literary Afterlife. Eric G. Haywood, editor. Four Courts Press, Dublin. [pounds sterling]55.00. 252 pages. ISBN 1-85182-662-9. The nine scholarly essays in this collection, published for the Foundation for Italian Studies at University College, Dublin, evolved from public lectures given during the Foundation's annual Dante series in 1993, 1994 and 2001.
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The title and subtitle define the scope of the collection, though the editor remarks that 'Five Centuries of Abuse' might be a more appropriate subtitle. Together, the essays show how, sometimes parodied, sometimes appropriated, frequently distorted and misinterpreted, Dante has been eliciting strong reactions--in Spain, England and France as well as in Italy--since the fourteenth century. The first and last essays focus on Inferno V and Francesca da Rimini; three relate Dante to later authors (Ariosto, Tommaso Campanella and George Eliot); the remaining four comprise a sometimes surprising survey of attitudes to Dante in fifteenth-century Florence, a discussion of the use made by the English Reformers of Dante's criticisms of the papacy, and two studies of Dante in translation. The ideas are sometimes expressed in rather leaden language, but they are consistently thought-provoking. (S.T.)
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