Table of Contents

Introduction: Dante’s Plurilingualism Part I: Theories 1. Mother Tongues in the Middle Ages and Dante 2. Millena variatio: Overcoming the Horror of Variation 3. Man as a Speaking and Political Animal: A Political Reading of Dante's De vulgari eloquentia 4. Volgare e latino nella storia di Dante 5. Le idee linguistiche di Dante e il naturalismo fiorentino-toscano del Cinquecento 6. Aristotele e Dante, filosofi della variabilità  linguistica Part II: Authority 7. The Roots of Dante's Plurilingualism: 'Hybridity' and Language in the Vita nova 8. Language as a Mirror of the Soul: Guilt and Punishment in Dante's Concept of Language 9. Plurilingualism sub specie aeternitatis and the Strategies of a Minority Author Part III: Subjectivity 10. Dante's Blind Spot (Inferno XVI-XVII) 11. Trasmutabile per tutte guise': Dante in the Comedy 12. Is Ulysses Queer? The Subject of Greek Love in Inferno XV and XXVI 13. Lost for Words: Recuperating Melancholy Subjectivity in Dante's Eden 14. (In-)Corporeality, Language, Performance in Dante's Vita Nuova and Commedia 15. Dante After Wittgenstein: 'Aspetto', Language, and Subjectivity from Convivio to Paradiso

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Sara Fortuna