Dante and the Making of a Modern Author

Hermes

by Albert Russell Ascoli (Author)
Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (April 21, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521882362
ISBN-13: 978-0521882361
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
Review
"Dante and the Making of a Modern Author is a major work of scholarship, the result of many years of reflection and research. Its subject - the poet's profound, shifting, and self-centred obsession with 'authority' - is certainly among the most vital in present-day Dante studies; and, for a long time to come, Ascoli's book will stand as the definitive analysis of the question. Fittingly, Ascoli has written the authoritative account of Dante's lifelong engagement with auctoritas." -
Zygmunt Baranski, University of Cambridge

"In the long history of Dante studies, this is the book that was missing: an intellectual and literary biography of Dante as the first modern, vernacular 'author' of the Western tradition. A new and original book, scholarly, rigorous, and fully engaged with both Dante's culture and our own, it combines depth with breadth and, while reconstructing the complex process through which Dante achieves his position as a supreme 'author,' builds its own enduring authority."
- Lino Pertile, Harvard University

"Ascoli (Italian studies, Univ. of California, Berkeley), who has authored numerous books and articles on Dante, Machiavelli, and Ariosto, offers a magisterial treatment of Dante's evolving conception of author...Thoroughly grounded in the primary and secondary literature, Ascoli's text is accessible even to the interested nonspecialist. An important contribution to Dante studies; highly recommended..."
-T.L. Cooksey, Library Journal

"This innovative, brilliantly constructed work examines how Dante Aligheri self-consciously presented himself as an authoritative poet, theologian, literary critic, and canonical giant. Ascoli argues that Dante strove to control how others regarded him and interpreted his work, and he achieved this so effectively that generations of even the most skeptical readers have approached him a little too reverentially to be wholly objective in their criticism. Drawing on works by Hannah Arendt and Roland Barthes, Ascoli deconstructs and historicizes Dante's work, presenting a modern way of reading him that neither disregards the spirit of the Commedia nor causes it to be considered ahistorically...Summing Up: Essential."
-M. E. DiPaolo, Alvernia College, Choice

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