Abstract: Written in reaction to Teodolinda Barolini's response ("For the Record...") to their earlier article ("Cursus in the Can Grande Epistle..." for which see LD 5 [1989]). Reasserting their belief in the inauthenticity of the Epistle to Can Grande, Hall and Sowell underline the fact that Barolini's response was not based on the evidence they had offered, clarify the American/European split on the issue, and argue that, though the Comedy is best approached through the text itself, the "privileging of the Pseudo-Dantean Epistle" will continue to distract us from doing so.
Abstract from the American Dante Bibliography 1990
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