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

Dante’s Journey to Polyphony

2011· article· fr· W4230890753 on OpenAlex

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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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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.695
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0570.035

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