Translating Dante

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" Translating Dante "
Linda J. Docherty

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081903
Doc. No	:	LA125532
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02201016‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Linda J. Docherty
Title & Author	:	Translating Dante [Article]\ Linda J. Docherty
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	22/1-2
Page No	:	194–217
Abstract	:	Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum (Fenway Court) owes its distinctive character to the influence of Dante Alighieri. Gardner’s interest in the Italian poet originated in a context of late nineteenth-century Boston’s enthusiasm for his writing and her personal quest for a meaningful life’s work. As a student of Charles Eliot Norton, a member of the Cambridge Dante Society, and a collector of rare editions of The Divine Comedy, Gardner became apprised of issues surrounding literary translation. When she began to study visual images inspired by Dante’s poetry and to acquire European masterpieces, she was poised to conceive a variation on this practice. As a visual translation of Paradiso, Fenway Court was not an illustration of a classic text but rather a conversion of a spiritual idea of love and beauty from one art form to another. In creating a museum for public education and enjoyment, Gardner exemplified Dante’s moral concept of free will and evoked his poetic vision of heavenly beauty.
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	beauty
Descriptor	:	Bernard Berenson
Descriptor	:	Charles Eliot Norton
Descriptor	:	collection
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Dante
Descriptor	:	Fenway Court
Descriptor	:	free will
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	Isabella Stewart Gardner
Descriptor	:	museum
Descriptor	:	paradise
Descriptor	:	Paradiso
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	translation
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02201016‬