![]() In the final section of this essay, the identitary quest undertaken by Dante through the process of recollection, with the visual support of the image of the circe, is inscribed in the broader context of the centuries-long multicultural tradition of psycho-cosmograms. In the guise of “sententia,” such higher meaning contains and animates the project of the “libello“ in its entirety. There he was able to find that higher meaning which could consecrate his earthly amorous aventure, transmuting it into an accomplished existential quest. In borrowing from the rhetorical, philosophical and monastictic memorative techniques of the Middle Ages, Dante carried out a sapiential-experiential journey which, starting at the circumference (that is to say, at the phenomenic margins of existence), eventually led him to the center of the circle of his own being. To this end it examines more systematically than has heretofore been done the “memorative” (in today’s terms, anamnestic) techniques used by Dante in reviewing his life as a poet and as a lover in relation to Beatrice - the transcendent object of his (at least initially) immanent, and hence potentially errant, amorous desire. ![]() **English - This article intends to affirm the pivotal, indeed generative role played by the image of the circle and its center in Dante’s Vita nuova. It is forthcoming in a series patronized and directed by the Department of Italian Studies of the University of Pisa.""" Particular attention has been paid to the global diagrams of heaven and hell, interpreted as medieval "machinae memorialis". ![]() Moreover, the dissertation demonstrated the importance of the Dominican Order in the reception of the 'Commedia'. Though verbal and pictorial commentaries are not directly connected, it is possible to consider the MS as an organic editorial product, whose goal is to suggest to the reader a systematic interpretation and to guide his comprehension of Dante’s poem. Eg is the earliest 'Commedia'’s manuscript entirely decorated, with almost 250 scenes and diagrams it also presents a corpus of Latin glosses generally known as the “Latin Anonymous”. "This book is an interdisciplinary enquiry of the MS Egerton 943 (Eg) housed in the British Library (circa 1340). Seguendo le tracce depositatesi nel codice, questo volume lo restituisce al suo contesto e ai suoi lettori, ricostruendo l’elaborazione di quel paratesto complessivo – fatto di glosse, rubriche, miniature, diagrammi – che trasforma la Commedia Egerton 943 in un progetto editoriale peculiare e per molti versi eccentrico, capace di proporre un’interpretazione del poema sorprendentemente coerente e incisiva, in cui le immagini giocano un ruolo esegetico di primo piano. Un vero e proprio “libro da banco”, simile a quello vagheggiato da Dante stesso nel Paradiso. Si tratta di un prodotto di lusso databile al 1340 circa, frutto del lavoro di un ambiente scrittorio e miniatorio nord-orientale, fra Emilia e Veneto. Il manoscritto Egerton 943 conservato a Londra presso la British Library è il più antico codice superstite interamente miniato della Commedia di Dante, con oltre duecentocinquanta tra miniature e disegni.
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