Inferno X
Guido's Disdain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10613005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles S Singleton |
| Year | 1962 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49 |
| Publication date | 1962-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-6611 • E-ISSN: 2326-1978 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3042682 |
| OpenAlex | W2325750760 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Giovanni Boccaccio ends his gloss on the Canto with the terse (and, one feels, rather satisfied) judgment: In questo canto non ci e allegoria alcuna, 1 and some five centuries later Francesco D'Ovidio picks up Boccaccio's words with evident satisfaction on his own part, adding: I inutile dire che il buon senso e il buon gusto stan dalla parte del Boccaccio, che in cio precorse la buona critica moderna. 2 Slowly we recover from a six-hundred-year-old aversion to allegory-that is, to Dante's kind of allegory-as we gradually recover a whole dimension of the poem. To be sure, our recovery of it is sometimes challenged and more than frowned upon as a relapse into obscurantism and I don't know what other dangerous loss of Enlightenment. But the front with Dante in this regard (I may report) is relatively quiet (here in this country, at least) as even the hottest protesters begin to concede that, in the matter of allegory, of medieval allegory, Dante may be a special case. They begin to admit that they do recognize that this poem, yes, this poem, is allegorical-and always when one hears the brave concession one some
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |