The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante’s "Commedia"
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The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante’s "Commedia"

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eBook - ePub

The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante’s "Commedia"

About this book

The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante's "Commedia" provides the first systematic overview of the earliest illustrated editions of Dante's poem, stretching from 1481 through 1596, and features over 230 illustrations.

Developing a series of interdisciplinary methods for studying early printed book illustrations, Matthew Collins explores the visual sources for the first illustrated editions of the Commedia, their narrative qualities, and their influence on Renaissance readers. He traces the visual genealogies that link these images to each other and to renderings of the poem in other media, including illuminated manuscripts and drawings, such as those by Sandro Botticelli. Collins additionally delves into a group of cartographically oriented renderings of Dante's afterlife, interpreting them in the context of the Age of Exploration. He addresses the utilitarian aspect of the illustrations as well by revealing the multidimensional role that these images played for Renaissance readers, particularly emphasizing their pedagogical and mnemonic uses.

Of value to numerous disciplines, The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante's "Commedia" fills a gap in Dante studies and will inspire similar investigations into the visual representation of other literary works in the age of early print.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. List of Tables
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Introduction: Images and Genealogies from the Margins of Renaissance Cultural Historiography
  12. One From Manuscript to Print: Broken Links and Bigger Pictures
  13. Two From Print to Manuscript: Ideology and Pedagogy in the Hands of Copyists
  14. Three From Drawing to Print (1): The Botticelli Questions
  15. Four From Drawing to Print (2): The Forgotten Morgan Dante Drawings
  16. Five Dante in the Age of Exploration: Meetings of Fact, Fiction, and Cartography
  17. Six Approaches to Visual Narrative: A Taxonomy
  18. Seven Early Readership, Marginalia, and Mnemonics
  19. Conclusion: The Work of Book Art in the Age of Early Print
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index of Cantos and Verses
  23. General Index