Guy P. Raffa: Publications

• The Complete Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the "Divine Comedy." Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Reviewed in Medium Aevum 78.2 (2009), Italian Quarterly 44.173-74 (2009 for 2007), Speculum 85.3 (2010), Annali d'Italianistica 28 (2010), Notes and Queries 57.4 (2010), Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 41 (2010), Modern Language Studies 39.2 (2010), Forum Italicum 46.1 (2012). Second Printing in 2011.
  
  
• Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the "Inferno." Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Reviewed in Rivista di Studi Italiani 24.1 (2006), The Medieval Review (Spring 2008), Speculum 83.3 (2008), Medium Aevum 77.2 (2008), Forum Italicum 42.2 (2008)
  
  
• Divine Dialectic: Dante's Incarnational Poetry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Reviewed in Symposium 56.1 (2002), Christianity and Literature 51.3 (2002), Speculum 77.3 (2002), Annali d'italianistica 20 (2002), La rassegna della letteratura italiana 106 (January-June 2002), The Medieval Review (Spring 2003), Renaissance Quarterly 56.2 (2003), Letteratura Italiana Antica 4 (2003), South Central Review 20.2-4 (2003)

• "Medieval Facial Hair in the Major Leagues," Not Even Past, ed. Joan Neuberger. October 8, 2018.
  
  
• "Dan Brown's Infernal Riddle," Dante Notes, Dante Society of America, March 22, 2018.
  
  
• "George Washington in Cambridge and the Birth of a Nation," Process: A Blog for American History, Organization of American Historians, February 22, 2017.
  
  
• "Longfellow's Great Liberators: Abraham Lincoln and Dante Alighieri," Not Even Past, ed. Joan Neuberger. January 18, 2017.
  
  
• "Fragments of Freedom: Dante's Relic in the Re-United States," California Italian Studies 6.1 (2016): http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1ps8s9kd
  
  
• "Danteworlds: Digital Humanities as Public Scholarship," Thinking in Public: Public Scholarship at the University of Texas at Austin, ed. Joan Neuberger, Sept. 9, 2016.
  
  
• "Dante at Arms," MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 28.4 (2016): 86-89.
  
  
• "What Rod Dreher Ought to Know about Dante and Same-Sex Love," Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, Nov. 2, 2015. Reprinted in PopMatters, January 22, 2016.
  
  
• "Bones of Contention: Ravenna's and Florence's Claims to Dante's Remains," Italica 92.3 (2015): 565-81.
  
  
• "Dante's Hell and Its Afterlife," Signature Course Stories: Transforming Undergraduate Education, ed. Lori Holleran Steiker (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015), 43-45.
  
  
• "Dante and Don: The Word Made Flesh and the Word Made Cash", PopMatters, Sept. 2, 2015. Reprinted as "Happy Birthday to Dante and Don" in Life & Letters: College of Liberal Arts Magazine (Fall 2015): 31-32
  
  
• "Calvino's Scientific Humanism," in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Italo Calvino, ed. Franco Ricci. New York: MLA, 2013. 37-41.
  
  
• "A Beautiful Friendship: Dante and Vergil in the Commedia," MLN 127.1 (Supplement) (2012): 72-80.
  
  
• "Eco's Scientific Imagination," in New Essays on Umberto Eco, ed. Peter Bondanella. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 34-49.
  
  
• "'Io amo New York': Calvino's Creatively Chaotic City," in Literature and Science in Italian Culture from Dante to Calvino, ed. Pierpaolo Antonello and Simon A. Gilson. Oxford: Legenda, 2004. 276-291.
  
  
• "Dante's Poetics of Exile," Annali d'italianistica 20 (2002): 73-87.
  
  
• "Walking and Swimming with Umberto Eco," MLN 113.1 (1998): 164-185.
  
  
• "Carlo Levi's Sacred Art of Medicine," Annali d'italianistica 15 (1997): 203-220.
  
  
• "Dante's Mocking Pastoral Muse," Dante Studies 114 (1996): 271-291.
  
  
• "Eco and Calvino Reading Dante," Italica 73.3 (1996): 388-409.
  
  
• "Dante's Beloved Yet Damned Virgil," in Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition, ed. Mark Musa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. 266-285.
  
  
• "Paradiso VI," Lectura Dantis 16-17 (1995): 91-106.
  
  
• "Enigmatic 56's: Cicero's Scipio and Dante's Cacciaguida," Dante Studies 110 (1992): 121-134.
  
  
• "Love's Duplicity in the Vita Nuova," Italian Culture 10 (1992): 15-26.
  
  
• "From Two's to Three's in Inferno II," Lectura Dantis 10 (1992): 91-108.
  
  
• "La bestialità ne Il Decameron e due strutture contrapposte," The Rackham Journal of the Arts and Humanities (1991-92): 35-42.

• Jason M. Houston, Building a Monument to Dante: Boccaccio as Dantista, The Medieval Review (May 2011).
  
  
• Christopher Kleinhenz, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, Italica 83.2 (2006): 309-10.
  
  
• Stephen Bemrose, A New Life of Dante, Speculum 77.2 (2002): 471-473.
  
  
• Marianne Shapiro, Dante and the Knot of Body and Soul, Symposium 54.2 (2000): 129-131.
  
  
• Frederic J. Jones, The Structure of Petrarch's "Canzoniere": A Chronological, Psychological and Stylistic Analysis, Speculum 72.1 (1997): 180-181.
  
  
• Ricardo J. Quinones, Foundation Sacrifice in Dante's "Commedia", Italica 73.2 (1996): 267-269.
  
  
• James J. Wilhelm, trans. and ed., Lyrics of the Middle Ages: An Anthology; and Joseph Tusiani, trans., Dante's Lyric Poems, Lectura Dantis 14-15 (1994): 129-131.
  
  
• Guglielmo Gorni, Lettera, nome, numero: l'ordine delle cose in Dante, Annali d'italianistica 11 (1993): 296-298.
  
  
• Penelope Reed Doob, The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Lectura Dantis 13 (1993): 105-106.

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