Il libro della Scrittura, il libro della Natura, il libro della Memoria: l'esegesi dantesca di C.S. Singleton fra tradizione giudaico-cristiana e trascendentalismo emersoniano

Abstract

This article analyzes the key function and meaning of Dante's imitation of God's creation through three Books of revelation (Scripture, Nature, History-Memory), as elaborated in Singleton's major critical works on Dante written between 1949 and 1958 (An Essay on the "Vita Nuova;" Dante Studies 1. "Commedia:" Elements of Structure; Dante Studies 2. Journey to Beatrice). It also aims to connect Singleton's investigation of Dante's use of allegory and symbolism to the Judaio-Christian tradition as primary source as well as to the American philosophical tradition from Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendentalism to George Santayana's thought which served as a foundation for the American Dante Scholar.