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H. Wayne Storey
The Intricate Weaving of The Undivine Comedy
In 1992 The Undivine Comedy proposed a new paradigm, showing the narrative threads woven by Dante’s single voice through cantos that linked the three canticles rather than separating them into pseudo-theological units. Barolini’s book challenges us to see the Comedy whole cloth, uncut, within and outside its editorially mechanical infrastructure. This recollection reviews especially the narrative of Barolini’s prose and thought across the breadth of The Undivine Comedy not as a collection of singular insights, or glosse puntuali, but as an integrative meditation on the sinews of narrative itself.
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The Intricate Weaving of The Undivine Comedy
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H. Wayne Storey
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In 1992 The Undivine Comedy proposed a new paradigm, showing the narrative threads woven by Dante’s single voice through cantos that linked the three canticles rather than separating them into pseudo-theological units. Barolini’s book challenges us to see the Comedy whole cloth, uncut, within and outside its editorially mechanical infrastructure. This recollection reviews especially the narrative of Barolini’s prose and thought across the breadth of The Undivine Comedy not as a collection of singular insights, or glosse puntuali, but as an integrative meditation on the sinews of narrative itself.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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December 2025
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narrative
Dante Studies
de-theologizing
Piacenza, Biblioteca Comunale, Passerini Landi, MS 190
Joachim of Flora
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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51
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63
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A World of Possibilities: The Legacy of The Undivine Comedy, ed. by Kristina M. Olson, Cultural Inquiry, 37 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 51–63
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