Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry

About the William and Katherine Devers Series

a b o u t t h e w i l l i a m a n d k a t h e r i n e d e v e r s s e r i e s i n d a n t e s t u d i e s The William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame supports rare book acquisitions in the university ’s John A. Zahm Dante collections, funds an annual visiting professorship in Dante studies, and supports electronic and print publication of scholarly research in the field. In collaboration with the Medieval Institute at the university, the Devers program has initiated a series dedicated to the publication of the most significant current scholarship in the field of Dante Studies. In keeping with the spirit that inspired the creation of the Devers program, the series takes Dante as a focal point that draws together the many disciplines and lines of inquiry that constitute a cultural tradition without fixed boundaries. Accordingly, the series hopes to illuminate Dante’s position at the center of contemporary critical debates in the humanities by reflecting both the highest quality of scholarly achievement and the greatest diversity of critical perspectives. The series publishes works on Dante from a wide variety of disciplinary viewpoints and in diverse scholarly genres, including critical studies , commentaries, editions, translations, and conference proceedings of exceptional importance. The series is supervised by an international advisory board composed of distinguished Dante scholars and is published regularly by the University of Notre Dame Press. The Dolphin and Anchor device that appears on publications of the Devers series was used by the great humanist, grammarian, editor, and typographer Aldus Manutius (1449–1515), in whose 1502 edition of Dante (second issue) and all subsequent editions it appeared. The device illustrates the ancient proverb Festina lente, “Hurry up slowly.” Theodore J. Cachey, Jr., and Christian Moevs, editors A d v i s o r y B o a r d Albert Russell Ascoli, Berkeley Zygmunt G. Barański, Cambridge Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia Piero Boitani, Rome Patrick Boyde, Cambridge Alison Cornish, Michigan Christopher Kleinhenz, Wisconsin Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale Lino Pertile, Harvard ✝ Michelangelo Picone, Zurich John A. Scott, Western Australia ✝ Tibor Wlassics, Virginia ...