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  • Chapter 1 - Hunt, Byron, and Dante’s Paolo and Francesca

  • Stacey McDowell, University of Warwick
  • Book:
    Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature
    Published online:
    05 January 2026
    Print publication:
    19 February 2026, pp 39-67

  • Summary

    Beginning with the Paolo and Francesca episode from Dante’s Inferno, this chapter focuses on rewritings of the episode by Hunt in The Story of Rimini and by Byron in Don Juan and ‘Francesca of Rimini’. These rewritings provide insight into the erotics of shared reading and the subsequent uncertainty surrounding Francesca’s claim that, when she and Paolo settled down to read together, they did so ‘without suspicion’. Teasing out the ambiguities in Dante’s text, Hunt and Byron suggest that reading allows desire to be acknowledged in tacit ways that invite or evade self-awareness (or self-suspicion). Their interpretations of Francesca’s speech also offer reflections on their own poetic styles, with Hunt questioning the difference between naturalness and artfulness, and Byron questioning the sincerity of veiled self-disclosure.

  • Chapter 1 - Dante’s Ethical Agenda

  • from Part I - Ethical and Political Manifesto
  • George Corbett, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • Book:
    Dante's Christian Ethics
    Published online:
    28 February 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020, pp 15-44
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    This chapter analyses the innovative moral structure of Dante’s afterlife as a whole. Where some scholars, such as Cogan and Moevs, have tried to set out an overarching moral rationale for the Commedia, Dante incorporates diverse ethical criteria for Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.