Dante and the grammar of the nursing body Book

	About the William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies
	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Lady Grammar between Nurturing and Discipline	9
	Defining grammatica	9
	Nutrix as magistra	14
	Inter blandimenta nutricum	15
	Lady Grammar's Whip	20
	Sapientia nutrix and Grammatica nutrix	22
	Grammatica in the Metalogicon	25
	Lady Grammar in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries	40
	Lady Grammar in Fourteenth-Century Italy	46
2	The Primal Scene of Suckling in Devulgari eloquentia	49
	A la tetta de la madre s'apprende	49
	Nutricem imitantes	53
	Vir sine matre, vir sine lacte	58
	Quanquam Sarnum biberimus ante dentes	59
	Ut "femina," "corpo"	70
	Os ex ossibus meis et caro de carne mea	72
3	The Body of Gaeta: Burying and Unburying the Wet Nurse in Inferno	77
	From Lady Grammar to the Neoplatontic Nurse and Beyond	77
	La presso a Gaeta, prima che si Enea la nomasse	78
	Ex ore infantium et lactentium	80
	Aeneia nutrix	82
	Circe, the Anti-nurse	85
	Bones and a Name	88
	In misericordia uberi	93
	Ulysses as Circe	97
	Noms de lieu	99
	Poppa and prora at the End of Paradiso	104
	The Nurse in Inferno	106
4	Deconstructing Subjectivity in Antepurgatory	109
	Selfhood and the Body in Purgatorio	109
	Silva from Plato to Dante	113
	Silva and Alma Mater	116
	Silva in Purgatorio 5	118
5	Reconstructing Subjectivity in Purgatorio and Paradiso	135
	Sermo humilis and the Nursing Body of Christ	135
	Dante's Nurse-Poets	138
	The Pilgrim as infans / puer	145
	The Triumph of the Resurrected Breast	154
	Et coram patre le si fece unito	157
	Notes	167
	Bibliography	269
	Index	297