{"product_id":"rewriting-dante-laura-banella-9780197905562","title":"Rewriting Dante: Lyric Books and Cultural Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Ca. 1290-1550)","description":"\u003cem\u003eRewriting Dante\u003c\/em\u003e explores how Dante Alighieri's lyric poetry was copied, edited, and printed across manuscripts and early printed books from ca. 1290 to 1550, revealing the ways in which these processes produced a distinct cultural figure: 'Dante the lyric poet.' By tracing the material and textual 'rewriting' of his lyrics, the book reconstructs the formation of Dante's \u003cem\u003eauthoriality\u003c\/em\u003e and the evolving perception of lyric authority in medieval and Renaissance Italy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe study begins with the earliest anthologies (1290-1325), showing how Dante's lyric presence was established before the \u003cem\u003eCommedia\u003c\/em\u003e and how manuscript circulation generated multiple 'Dantes' independent of his intentions. It then re-examines the \u003cem\u003eVita nova\u003c\/em\u003e as a lyric sequence whose narrative structure redefined the boundaries between the lyric and other forms of writing. Subsequent chapters follow Dante's lyrics through illuminated codices, urban readers and middle-class libraries in Florence, and anthologies compiled by poet-scribes who inserted their own verse alongside Dante's in order to lay claim to a lineage within the Tuscan canon. The final section moves into the age of print, analyzing the editions encompassing Dante's lyric poems (1491-1532), paying particular attention to the 1518 Venetian-Milanese edition and to annotated volumes -- both manuscripts and printed copies -- that reconfigure the texts and transform books into means of personal or amorous expression and exchange. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough the lens of material transmission, \u003cem\u003eRewriting Dante\u003c\/em\u003e redefines what it meant to be an 'author' and a 'poet' between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, showing how scribes, readers, and editors continually reshaped Dante's authority as a lyric figure distinct, yet inseparable, from the poet of the \u003cem\u003eCommedia\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Banella\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197905560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197905562\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Laura Banella","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48623629730047,"sku":"9780197905562","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rewriting-dante-laura-banella-9780197905562","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}