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Lina Bolzoni
Dante and ‘visibile parlare’
This essay takes its cue from Barolini's metapoetic reading of the terrace of the proud. It analyses some of the ways in which Dante himself seeks to achieve a ‘visibile parlare’, in a kind of competition with the divine. The point of view is primarily that of reception, of how the pact that the poet creates with his readers is realized. The canto of the proud is thus inserted into that education of the gaze that is an important component of the poem.
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Dante and ‘visibile parlare’
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Lina Bolzoni
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This essay takes its cue from Barolini's metapoetic reading of the terrace of the proud. It analyses some of the ways in which Dante himself seeks to achieve a ‘visibile parlare’, in a kind of competition with the divine. The point of view is primarily that of reception, of how the pact that the poet creates with his readers is realized. The canto of the proud is thus inserted into that education of the gaze that is an important component of the poem.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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December 2025
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synesthesia
memory
acrostic
competition
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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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245
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259
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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. 245–59
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