The early printed illustrations of Dante's Commedia

• Verfasst von: Collins, Matthew [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The early printed illustrations of Dante's Commedia
• Verf.angabe: Matthew Collins
• Verlagsort: Notre Dame, Indiana
• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: xxix, 458 Seiten, 2 ungezählte Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: The William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and Medieval Italian literature ; volume 25
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographic references (pages 421-448) and indexes
• ISBN: 978-0-268-20838-7
• ISBN: 978-0-268-20837-0
• Schlagwörter: (t)Dante <Alighieri> / Divina commedia / (s)Illustriertes Buch / (z)Geschichte 1480-1600
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Illustration des livres - Histoire
• K10plus-PPN: 1913703673

Abstract

"Developing a series of interdisciplinary methods for studying early printed book illustrations, Matthew Collins explores the visual sources for the first illustrated editions of the Commedia, their narrative qualities, and their influence on Renaissance readers. He traces the visual genealogies that link these images to each other and to renderings of the poem in other media, including illuminated manuscripts and drawings, such as those by Sandro Botticelli. Collins additionally delves into a group of cartographically oriented renderings of Dante's afterlife, interpreting them in the context of the Age of Exploration. He addresses the utilitarian aspect of the illustrations as well by revealing the multidimensional role that these images played for Renaissance readers, particularly emphasizing their pedagogical and mnemonic uses. Of value to numerous disciplines, [this book] fills a gap in Dante studies and will inspire similar investigations into the visual representation of other literary works in the age of early print."--from the back cover