Dante's Parere

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Marco Grimaldi
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7388-0617

Abstract

In old Italian the verb parere oscillates between the meanings of ‘to appear clearly’ and ‘to seem’. Dante, in the sonnet Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare and in general in the Vita nova, would instead eliminate, according to modern criticism, any ambiguity: starting from Gianfranco Contini it is in fact believed that the apparition of Beatrice is represented in the pamphlet as a universal phenomenon and not as a subjective perception. In this contribution I try to reconstruct the prehistory of Dante’s parere.

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Grimaldi, Marco. 2024. “Dante’s Parere”. Reti Medievali Journal 25 (2), 339-47. https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-2214/11446.
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Essayes in Monographic Section - 2