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Roberto Antonelli
The Undivine Comedy
Dante One and Multiple
I extend Barolini’s method by looking at other forms of ‘camouflaging’ through which Dante diverts our attention from his narrative art: the function of the great characters of the poem and their intertextual relations. The figures that populate the poem are united through the technique of memoria verborum: the ‘allusive art’, or intertextuality. It constitutes a principle that is not only structural but also narratological and aesthetic, establishing a second level of narration beyond the literal one.
Keywords: philology; narrative; Virgil; Beatrice; intertextuality
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The Undivine Comedy
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Dante One and Multiple
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Roberto Antonelli
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I extend Barolini’s method by looking at other forms of ‘camouflaging’ through which Dante diverts our attention from his narrative art: the function of the great characters of the poem and their intertextual relations. The figures that populate the poem are united through the technique of memoria verborum: the ‘allusive art’, or intertextuality. It constitutes a principle that is not only structural but also narratological and aesthetic, establishing a second level of narration beyond the literal one.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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November 4, 2025
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philology
narrative
Virgil
Beatrice
intertextuality
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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65
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98
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A World of Possibilities: The Legacy of The Undivine Comedy, ed. by Kristina M. Olson, Cultural Inquiry, 37 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 65–98
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Cite as:
Roberto Antonelli, ‘The Undivine Comedy: Dante One and Multiple’, in A World of Possibilities: The Legacy of The Undivine Comedy, ed. by Kristina M. Olson, Cultural Inquiry, 37 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 65-98 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-37_04>