Anna Pegoretti
Associate Professor @ Roma Tre University; Visiting Professor @ Scuola Normale Superiore (2021); British Academy Newton Alumna.
After a BA at the Conservatorio di Musica in Trento and a 4-years degree in Modern Literature at the University of Bologna, I took my PhD at the University of Pisa in 2009, defending a thesis on the MS Egerton 943 (British Library). In 2010 I have been a Francis A. Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute (short-term); in 2011-2012 I have been a Newton International Fellow for the British Academy at the University of Leeds.
From December 2012 to January 2016, I have been Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Warwick in the AHRC Project "Dante and Late Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society". In 2015-16 I have also been Sessional Lecturer at the University of Reading.
Research interests:
- Dante Studies, including Dante's Fortune
- Relationship btw Intellectual History & Medieval Italian Literature
- Representation of Space: Geography and Literature in Medieval Italy
After a BA at the Conservatorio di Musica in Trento and a 4-years degree in Modern Literature at the University of Bologna, I took my PhD at the University of Pisa in 2009, defending a thesis on the MS Egerton 943 (British Library). In 2010 I have been a Francis A. Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute (short-term); in 2011-2012 I have been a Newton International Fellow for the British Academy at the University of Leeds.
From December 2012 to January 2016, I have been Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Warwick in the AHRC Project "Dante and Late Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society". In 2015-16 I have also been Sessional Lecturer at the University of Reading.
Research interests:
- Dante Studies, including Dante's Fortune
- Relationship btw Intellectual History & Medieval Italian Literature
- Representation of Space: Geography and Literature in Medieval Italy
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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.
"This book is an interdisciplinary enquiry of the MS Egerton 943 (Eg) housed in the British Library (circa 1340). 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”. 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.
Moreover, the dissertation demonstrated the importance of the Dominican Order in the reception of the 'Commedia'. Particular attention has been paid to the global diagrams of heaven and hell, interpreted as medieval "machinae memorialis".
It is forthcoming in a series patronized and directed by the Department of Italian Studies of the University of Pisa."""
"Che aspetto ha il Purgatorio? Dove si trova? Il Paradiso terrestre è stato risparmiato dal Diluvio? Con queste domande – del tutto legittime per un uomo del Medioevo – si confronta Dante nello scrivere la Commedia, dando loro risposte innovative e coerenti. Grazie all’apporto delle più recenti acquisizioni nel campo degli studi storici, storico-artistici e letterari, questo libro ripercorre le tradizioni e l’immaginario cui il poeta attinge per progettare il regno intermedio dell’aldilà: segue così le tracce degli elementi costitutivi del paesaggio purgatoriale e edenico (il mare, la spiaggia, la montagna, la pietra, l’albero, il fuoco, la scala, il giardino), di cui indaga anche la dimensione simbolica. Ma dietro ai simboli emerge prepotente il mondo terreno – quello in cui Dante ha concretamente vissuto – fatto di suoni, colori, spazi, immagini, mestieri."""
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a first step, it offers a fresh reading of Dante’s description of knowledge and the cosmos, emphasizing
its deeply visual nature. The article then presents an overview of the Medieval tradition of the divisio
scientiae, culminating with divisions that are geographically and chronologically close to Dante’s
Florence. In relation to Brunetto Latini’s Rettorica and Tresor, new evidence is provided to elucidate
his peculiar division of logic. Ultimately, Dante’s divisio and its objectives are reassessed in light
of their historical background, underscoring their cosmological and totalizing scope. Adopting an
interdisciplinary approach, the findings consider cognitive practices, such as diagrams, and examine a
wide array of sources within their historical and institutional context, highlighting their transmission
and dissemination.
on the October 11th, 1896, and played a central role in the Dante centenary of
1921. In the city of Trento the celebrations became strikingly intertwined with
the enduring celebrations of the Italian victory in the First World War and the
acquisition of the so–called “unredeemed” territories. Conceived in the peculiar
historical context of an Italian-speaking territory under the rule of the Austro-
Hungarian Empire, the Trento monument reveals the enduring power of
Dante as a symbol of the Risorgimento. However, the article aims to challenge
the long–lasting interpretation of it as an overtly irredentist artwork advocating
for annexation to Italy. This reading became standard after the First World
War, overshadowing the complex negotiations of national cultures within the
multinational perspective of the Empire. Rather, it retraces the complex development
of the monument’s propagandist role, starting from the ode dedicated
to its inauguration by Giosuè Carducci and extending to the Great War
and the 1921 celebrations. Throughout this period, the artwork became increasingly
instrumental in the irredentist and warmongering rhetoric.
development during the thirteenth century, the essay shows how the explanation skectched in the Convivio was just a version of a theory that can be traced back to the Arab philosopher only partially, and that was variously endorsed by both philosophers and theologians. Finally, the essay reconsiders the role played by moonspots in the context of Paradiso II.
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.
"This book is an interdisciplinary enquiry of the MS Egerton 943 (Eg) housed in the British Library (circa 1340). 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”. 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.
Moreover, the dissertation demonstrated the importance of the Dominican Order in the reception of the 'Commedia'. Particular attention has been paid to the global diagrams of heaven and hell, interpreted as medieval "machinae memorialis".
It is forthcoming in a series patronized and directed by the Department of Italian Studies of the University of Pisa."""
"Che aspetto ha il Purgatorio? Dove si trova? Il Paradiso terrestre è stato risparmiato dal Diluvio? Con queste domande – del tutto legittime per un uomo del Medioevo – si confronta Dante nello scrivere la Commedia, dando loro risposte innovative e coerenti. Grazie all’apporto delle più recenti acquisizioni nel campo degli studi storici, storico-artistici e letterari, questo libro ripercorre le tradizioni e l’immaginario cui il poeta attinge per progettare il regno intermedio dell’aldilà: segue così le tracce degli elementi costitutivi del paesaggio purgatoriale e edenico (il mare, la spiaggia, la montagna, la pietra, l’albero, il fuoco, la scala, il giardino), di cui indaga anche la dimensione simbolica. Ma dietro ai simboli emerge prepotente il mondo terreno – quello in cui Dante ha concretamente vissuto – fatto di suoni, colori, spazi, immagini, mestieri."""
a first step, it offers a fresh reading of Dante’s description of knowledge and the cosmos, emphasizing
its deeply visual nature. The article then presents an overview of the Medieval tradition of the divisio
scientiae, culminating with divisions that are geographically and chronologically close to Dante’s
Florence. In relation to Brunetto Latini’s Rettorica and Tresor, new evidence is provided to elucidate
his peculiar division of logic. Ultimately, Dante’s divisio and its objectives are reassessed in light
of their historical background, underscoring their cosmological and totalizing scope. Adopting an
interdisciplinary approach, the findings consider cognitive practices, such as diagrams, and examine a
wide array of sources within their historical and institutional context, highlighting their transmission
and dissemination.
on the October 11th, 1896, and played a central role in the Dante centenary of
1921. In the city of Trento the celebrations became strikingly intertwined with
the enduring celebrations of the Italian victory in the First World War and the
acquisition of the so–called “unredeemed” territories. Conceived in the peculiar
historical context of an Italian-speaking territory under the rule of the Austro-
Hungarian Empire, the Trento monument reveals the enduring power of
Dante as a symbol of the Risorgimento. However, the article aims to challenge
the long–lasting interpretation of it as an overtly irredentist artwork advocating
for annexation to Italy. This reading became standard after the First World
War, overshadowing the complex negotiations of national cultures within the
multinational perspective of the Empire. Rather, it retraces the complex development
of the monument’s propagandist role, starting from the ode dedicated
to its inauguration by Giosuè Carducci and extending to the Great War
and the 1921 celebrations. Throughout this period, the artwork became increasingly
instrumental in the irredentist and warmongering rhetoric.
development during the thirteenth century, the essay shows how the explanation skectched in the Convivio was just a version of a theory that can be traced back to the Arab philosopher only partially, and that was variously endorsed by both philosophers and theologians. Finally, the essay reconsiders the role played by moonspots in the context of Paradiso II.
overview of the translation practices used in the complex world of the Franciscans,
this essay sheds light on various open issues, also on major dossiers
often analyzed in recent studies, such as those of the Actus / Fioretti
or the Meditationes vitae Christi. Franciscan volgarizzamenti are characterized,
on the one hand, by the importance and substantial presence of texts
concerning the difficult history of the Order itself, in an unremitting, always
militant, and oftentimes self-referential collective reflection, and on
the other hand by the lack of a precise translation program guided by paraenetic
or pastoral intentions.
«Studi sul Boccaccio», vol. XLIII, 2015
Boccaccio e la Romagna, Atti del Convegno di studi (Forlì,
22-23 novembre 2013), a cura di Gabriella Albanese e Paolo
Pontari (Ravenna, Longo, 2015)
Carocci (Roma) in due volumi, che usciranno nel settembre 2021. La lettura del singolo canto sarà seguita da un’ampia discussione, che sarà pure compresa nei volumi.
6-8 marzo 2019: canti I-VII
23-25 ottobre 2019: canti VIII-XIV
11-13 marzo 2020: canti XV-XXI
21-23 ottobre 2020: canti XXII-XXVIII
10-12 marzo 2021: canti XXIX-XXXIV
Ogni sessione sarà introdotta da una lezione serale aperta anche al pubblico su un tema attinente all’Inferno, ma non direttamente trattato nelle letture dei canti:
• Introduzione all’‘Inferno’
• Composizione e trasmissione dell’‘Inferno’
• Amore e colpa: la ‘Vita nova’, l’esperienza lirica e l’‘Inferno’
• Dottrina e dannazione: il ‘Convivio’ e l’‘Inferno’
• Il problema della lingua: il ‘De vulgari eloquentia’ e l’‘Inferno’
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Florence, the celebrated city-republic, dominates the historiography of medieval Italy still today. The birth and growth of the Mendicant Orders paralleled the rise of urban Europe. As attention to medieval cities has increased, so too the history of the Dominican Order has constituted a major field of study, since the Dominicans were at the forefront of the cultural and religious life of Medieval cities. The combination of these two traditions of studies precipitates a particularly fruitful research field: the reciprocal influences and interactions between the activities of Dominican intellectuals and the making of Florentine cultural identity. The essays collected in this volume explore various facets of such an interaction. Without presuming to be exhaustive, these contributions restore the complexity of the relationship between the Dominicans and the city of Florence, as well as the communal society in the broadest sense of the term.
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The identification of all the friars who were active in Santa Maria Novella on a regular basis or only temporarily is a puzzling issue, due to the high mobility of Dominican friars as well as the complexities of the internal organization of the convent. This contribution offers a schematic chronology of the Florentine Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella between 1291 and 1319. For each year, the prior, the main lector, the lector of the Sentences, the students, and other friars active in the convent are listed, together with further information about the major events taking place at the convent. Archival and bibliographical references supporting this reconstruction can be found in the footnotes.