Teodolinda Barolini (2003)

Beyond (courtly) dualism: thinking about gender in Dante's lyrics

In: Dante for the New Millennium, ed. by Teodolinda BAROLINI and H. Wayne STOREY, New York: Fordham University Press Fordham Series in Medieval Studies. 2. , pp. 65-89.

Abstract

Discusses developments in Dante's presentation of femininity and desire, arguing that in Doglia mi reca in particular both desire and femininity are conceived as continua, embracing but not identical with extremes of animal and spiritual or good and bad.