Wheatley, Dante, and the Latin Question
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5246295 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John C Shields (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 17-31 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-4783 • E-ISSN: 1945-6182 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/afa.2015.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W1277339847 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
We can now establish that Phillis Wheatley actually knew Dante's La Divina Commedia in a Latin translation. While a complete English translation of the Commedia did not appear until after 1800, Father Carlo d'Aquino's Latin translation was published in 1728. Also, Wheatley had access to d'Aquino's Latin version, as is demonstrable in her borrowings from this Latin version as they appear in her extant œuvre. Whereas others have written insistently that Wheatley only knew classical myths from the few English mythology handbooks of her period, I believe that this investigation proves unquestionably that Wheatley knew Latin rather well
Art · Literature · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Philosophy
| 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 |