Boccaccio as Lector Dantis structures his lessons in S. Stefano of Badis around an absolute adherence to the text, assuming as model the self-exegesis offered by Dante’s texts themselves. The exposition of the allegorical text, however, immediately appears to be structurally subordinate to the literal level, and in particular to the erudite one that guides the poem’s reception in an already humanistic and narrative sense, never aesthetic. The tradition of Lecturae Danctis is revitalized in the 1500s by the Florentine Academy, in a way that is often very similar to Boccacio’s. The register changes with the third historical moment of Lecturae, inaugurated on the 27th of April 1899 by the president of Florence’s Dante Society. In this case, broad narrative digressions in Boccaccio’s style are accompanied by brief aesthetic judgements, that converge in the image of Dante poet-artifex promoted by the Prolusion of the Lectura Dantis Tauricensis. An hermeneutic dimension that enters the creative text, and the conception of work as centre of radiation of the critical discourse belong in fact to the entire literary tradition of the Middle Ages: ranging from the Occitan environment of the poet’s at Frederic’s court to the most notable pre-Dante case, Guittone of Arezzo, who offered his very precise poetic conception to the narrative development itself.

Il Boccaccio Lector Dantis imposta le sue lezioni in S.Stefano di Badis su un'assoluta adesione al testo, assumendo come modello l'autoesegesi offerta proprio dai testi danteschi. L'esposizione del testo allegorico,però, appare subito strutturalmente subordinata a quella letterale, e in particolare a quella erudita che guida la ricezione del poema in senso già umanistico e narrativo, mai estetico. La tradizione delle Lecturae Dantis viene rivitalizzata nel '500 dall'Accademia Fiorentina, con una ripresa spesso molto vicina a quella del Boccaccio. Il registro cambia col terzo momento storico delle Lecturae, inaugurato il 27-4-1899 dal Presidente della Società Dantesca a Firenze. Ad ampie digressioni narrative di stampo ancora boccacciano si affiancano ora brevi valutazioni estetiche, confluite nell'immagine promossa dalla Prolusione alla Lectura Dantis Tauricensis di un Dante poeta-artifex. Una dimensione ermeneutica calata nel testo creativo, e la concezione di opera come centro di irradiazione del discorso critico, appartengono infatti a tutta la tradizione letteraria del Medioevo: dall'ambiente occitanico ai poeti della corte federiciana, sino al caso predantesco più vistoso: quello di Guittone d'Arezzo, che affida proprio allo sviluppo narrativo la propria precisissima concezione poetica.

Landoni, E., Lectura Dantis tra istituzionalità e libertà, in Giuseppe De Mattei, G. D. M. (ed.), Dante in lettura, Longo, Ravenna 2005: 51- 62 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/24299]

Lectura Dantis tra istituzionalità e libertà

Landoni, Elena
2005

Abstract

Boccaccio as Lector Dantis structures his lessons in S. Stefano of Badis around an absolute adherence to the text, assuming as model the self-exegesis offered by Dante’s texts themselves. The exposition of the allegorical text, however, immediately appears to be structurally subordinate to the literal level, and in particular to the erudite one that guides the poem’s reception in an already humanistic and narrative sense, never aesthetic. The tradition of Lecturae Danctis is revitalized in the 1500s by the Florentine Academy, in a way that is often very similar to Boccacio’s. The register changes with the third historical moment of Lecturae, inaugurated on the 27th of April 1899 by the president of Florence’s Dante Society. In this case, broad narrative digressions in Boccaccio’s style are accompanied by brief aesthetic judgements, that converge in the image of Dante poet-artifex promoted by the Prolusion of the Lectura Dantis Tauricensis. An hermeneutic dimension that enters the creative text, and the conception of work as centre of radiation of the critical discourse belong in fact to the entire literary tradition of the Middle Ages: ranging from the Occitan environment of the poet’s at Frederic’s court to the most notable pre-Dante case, Guittone of Arezzo, who offered his very precise poetic conception to the narrative development itself.
2005
Italiano
Dante in lettura
88-8063-444-5
Landoni, E., Lectura Dantis tra istituzionalità e libertà, in Giuseppe De Mattei, G. D. M. (ed.), Dante in lettura, Longo, Ravenna 2005: 51- 62 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/24299]
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