Ovidio Capitani’s Readings of Dante (1961-2007)
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https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-2214/9596Keywords:
Middle Ages, 20th Century, Dante Alighieri, Ovidio Capitani, Dante's Monarchia, Italian Medieval Studies, Medieval HistoriographyAbstract
The essay studies the course of Dante studies of the historian Ovidio Capitani (1930-2012). The historian of the Middle Ages in fact began his interest in Dante Alighieri as an undergraduate under the impulse of Bruno Nardi, in Rome. Later, Capitani selected a small personal Dante anthology (mostly from the Monarchia, and less from the Commedia) on which he continued to study until the end of his career. Likewise, Capitani’s bibliographical interlocutors as a Dante scholar were strictly selected by the historian. Between 1961 and 2007, therefore, Ovidio Capitani’s Dante activity represented a singular and intricate hermeneutic circle; with, perhaps, the historian rather than the Poet at its centre.
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