Dante and Polish Writers

Andrea Ceccherelli is Full Professor of Slavistics – Polish Language and Literature at the University of Bologna and Chair of the Center for Contemporary Poetry at the same university. His main fields of research are Polish literature of the sixteenth–seventeenth and twentieth centuries, Polish-Italian comparative studies (e.g. the presence of Dante in Miłosz’s works), translation and self-translation (e.g. Gombrowicz). He has authored a monograph on Piotr Skarga’s collection of the lives of Saints (2003) and contributed chapters on Renaissance and Modernism to the Einaudi History of Polish Literature (2004, translated into Polish in 2009), and co-authored a book on Wisława Szymborska, Szymborska. Un alfabeto del mondo (An Alphabet of the World) (2016). He is also a translator of Polish contemporary literature into Italian (Czesław Miłosz, Zbigniew Herbert, Józef Czapski, Anna Świrszczyńska, Kornel Filipowicz, Jan Twardowski, Wisława Szymborska, and Adam Zagajewski). In addition, he has translated Szymborska’s biography by Anna Bikont and Joanna Szczęsna (2015), as well as the memories of Szymborska’s secretary Michał Rusinek (2019).

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Acknowledgments

Inhuman, transhuman, posthuman: An introduction to Polish Danteism over the centuries

Andrea Ceccherelli

1. Dante and Mickiewicz. The story of a common journey

Tomasz Jędrzejewski

2. Słowacki’s Poem of Piast Dantyszek, or the macabre despair of a father-land

Krystyna Jaworska

3. Reason and will: Dante and Krasiński, a comparison

Marina Ciccarini

4. Dante in Norwid’s Prayer Book

Francesco Cabras

5. Echoes of Inferno V in Kraszewski’s narrative and lyrical work

Andrea F. De Carlo

6. “Better to fall with Alighieri than to triumph with Nogaret”: Klaczko’s personal Dante

Luca Bernardini

7. The Dante of Stanisław Vincenz

Lorenzo Costantino

8. Teodor Parnicki encounters Dante. Only Beatrice and not only

Marcin Wyrembelski

9. From parody to polemical pamphlet: Gombrowiczian deformations of Dante

Andrea Ceccherelli

10. On Czesław Miłosz’s debt to Dante

Luigi Marinelli

11. What Dante owes to Stanisław Barańczak

Marcello Piacentini

12. Dante in twenty-first-century Poland: The case of Jarosław Mikołajewski

Leonardo Masi

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