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The Dante commentary of Giovanni Bertoldi da Serravalle with reference to the proceedings at the Council of Constance and the Ferrara Recollectae of Benvenuto da Imola
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Helps, John David (2020) The Dante commentary of Giovanni Bertoldi da Serravalle with reference to the proceedings at the Council of Constance and the Ferrara Recollectae of Benvenuto da Imola. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
Previous scholarship has established that the Comentum of Giovanni Bertoldi da Serravalle on Dante's Commedia (1416-1417) was influenced by the recollectae (student notes) of lectures on the poem delivered at Ferraraby Benvenuto da Imoladuring 1375-1376, with codex Ashburnham 839 held in the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Florence being the only manuscript version to have survived substantially intact. The first objective of this dissertation is to offer further detailed study into how Serravalle incorporates the recollectae, or a version related to it, into his Comentum. The second objective is to investigate the influence of the Council of Constance (1414-1418) on Serravalle's commentary. To facilitate the second objective, three themes were chosen, namely Dante's treatment of Florence, his understanding of the effect of Anglo-French relations on the politics of Western Europe, and his condemnation of heresy, schism and simony.
The dissertation comprises six chapters. Chapter 1 discusses Serravalle's career, his relationship with the recollectae, and judgments on the Comentum. Chapter 2 presents an overview of the Council itself and its deliberations. Chapter 3 provides new research with an in-depth investigation into the influence of the prologue of Benvenuto's recollectae on the wider ranging preambula provided by Serravalle as an introduction to his commentary. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 investigate the three themes noted above, by comparing relevant passages drawn from the recollectaeand the Comentum. A new understanding is provided of Serravalle's practice of embedding the often sparse material of the recollectae into a longer gloss where a terse contribution is enhanced with his personal insight. It is shown that, although there are some hints of the deliberations of the Council infiltrating the Comentum, there is little hard evidence to demonstrate that they provided a major influence on Serravalle's commentary.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Bertoldo, di Giovanni, approximately 1420-1491 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses. , Benvenutus, de Imola, -1387 or 1388 -- Criticism and interpretation, Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses, Council of Constance (1414-1418 : Konstanz, Germany) | ||||
| Official Date: | November 2020 | ||||
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| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Theses Department: | Department of Italian | ||||
| Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
| Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Gilson, Simon A. | ||||
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| Extent: | vii, 227 leaves | ||||
| Language: | eng |
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