Michelangelo on Parnassus

Gandolfo Cascio is Assistant Professor of Italian Literature and Translation at the University of Utrecht, where he also directs the Observatory on Dante Studies research project. His research interests are poetry and aesthetic reception. His latest books are Le ore del meriggio. Saggi critici (Il Convivio 2020; winner of the G.A. Borgese Prize) and Dolci detti. Dante, la letteratura e i poeti (Marsilio 2021; N. Martoglio Award).

Translator’s Note

Bibliographical Note and Abbreviations

Illustrations



Introduction: Conversations among Writers



1 The Cinquecento

 1 Responding in Verse

 2 The Prose Writers

 3 Michelangelo on Parnassus



2 From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

 1 The First Edition

 2 Beyond Italy



3 The Twentieth Century: Critical Reception

 1 Dante, Petrarch and Michelangelo

 2 For the Quincentenary

 3 Anthologies between the Two Millennia

 4 Seductions



4 The Twentieth Century: Creative Reception

 1 The Strong Poets

 2 Distillations



5 Translations

 1 Translations by Poets

 2 The Poems in Music

 3 Portraits as a Poet



Conclusion



Illustrations



Index of Names