%0 Journal Article
%T Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio XXVI.139-148
%A Simone Marchesi
%J Glossator : Practice and Theory of the Commentary
%D 2011
%I 
%X Dante's famous ten lines on Arnaut Daniel, the "miglior fabbro," the best craftsman in the native tongue, are also the last lines of the canto, the most quoted in English (thanks to T.S. Eliot's citation in The Wasteland), the most extended stretch of non-Italian vernacular in the Commedia, the center of a reflection on the nature of language (Virgil-Arnaut-Adam) and the center of a triangle of oc poets in the poem (between Bertran de Born in Inferno and Foulquet de Marseilles in Paradiso). The thematic triangle of poetic concealment, erotic fire, and affinar (purification) derived from Arnaut's poetry is redeployed by Dante as a reflection on the nature of language and the promise of poetry.
%K Dante
%K Arnaut Daniel
%U http://solutioperfecta.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/g4-marchesi.pdf