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Record W4230890753 · doi:10.33137/q.i..v32i1.15938

Dante’s Journey to Polyphony

2011· article· fr· W4230890753 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Francesco Ciabattoni, Antonio Rossini

Bibliographic record

VenueQuaderni d italianistica · 2011
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicRenaissance and Early Modern Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolyphonyArtLiterature

Abstract

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Per meglio delineare l'innovativo approccio di questo saggio di Francesco Ciabattoni, assai ben scritto e documentato, conviene affidarsi alla voce stessa dell'autore che, nelle conclusioni dello studio, ne riassume indirettamente la struttura e gli scopi: "In recent years, however, new musicological findings have provided evidence that singing polyphony in liturgy ... was a widespread practice on feast days during the thirteenth century in all of central and northern Italy, and particularly in the cities in which Dante had his cultural formation, including Florence.In light of these findings, it becomes much clearer that when Dante insists on describing the quality of the musical performances of the damned, he does not do so out of mere aesthetic interest.Music is an agent of divine grace and its use is consistent: Dante employs music in Paradiso as a rain to bless the souls and as a mystical means of expression in order to circumvent the engulfment of poetic language, while in Purgatorio plainchant provides a means of purging sins.By the same token, music in Inferno mocks the damned and reminds them of the salvation they will never reach, in a consistent parody of sacred music" (217).Come il titolo del volume sottolinea, l'obiettivo di Ciabattoni è quello di ripercorrere il viaggio dantesco verso la polifonia, a partire dalla cacofonica parodia della musica sacra che ha luogo nell'inferno, per giungere, attraverso la monodia purgatoriale, alle performance polifoniche dei cori paradisiaci.Il capitolo introduttivo, "Music to Dante's Ears: Exposure to Polyphony" (8-42), rappresenta la cornice teorico-musicologica del lavoro ed espone la possibile conoscenza dantesca delle tecniche armonico-polifoniche, e cioè la pratica dell'organum, naturale evoluzione della monodia di tipo gregoriano.Il secondo, terzo e quarto capitolo, seguendo la struttura tripartita della Commedia, studiano gli 'aspetti musicali' delle tre cantiche dantesche, scardinando la concezione prevalente fra gli studiosi, secondo la quale le 'sortite musicali' dell'opus maius dantesco non sarebbero altro che un embellishment letterario."Inferno's Unholy Racket," secondo capitolo della monografia, indaga l'uso distorto della musica nella cantica infernale e ne postula lo status di "systematic reversal of sacred music" (44) e si divide in tre parti: "Musical Instruments" (47-66), che esplora l'imagery infernale degli strumenti musicali; "Perversion of Sacred Chants" (66-85), esposizione delle tecniche dantesche di capovolgimento parodico dei titoli liturgici di cui è costellata la cantica, tecnica che nulla lascia al caso e che mostra la profonda conoscenza che Dante ebbe delle "communitarian religious practices of his day" (80); e, infine, "Secular Music in Inferno: The Crane's Lai" (85)(86)(87)(88)(89)(90)(91), una disamina approfondita della famosa similitudine fra gli spiriti dei lussuriosi e gli stormi di gru che "van cantando lor lai" (Inferno 5. 46), un paragone ricco di riferimenti intertestuali alla materia arturiana e ai Lai di maria di Francia (88).In modo assai convincente, Ciabattoni, dimostra a più riprese come i riferimenti del poema all'arte musicale siano parte di una fitta tramatura di rimandi intratestuali che si illuminano a vicenda presupponendo da parte del lettore la considerazione della Commedia quale "un intero," a whole, che possiede al suo inter-

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.052

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.016
Scholarly communication0.0090.007
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0030.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.125
GPT teacher head0.282
Teacher spread0.157 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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