Autocitation and Autobiography
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so that the literary and literal moments of the poet's life are fused together in a highly suggestive pattern. In the same way that the personal encounters of the Comedy have furnished clues to Dante's actual biography-for instance, by alloWing us to date the canzone "Voi che 'ntendendo" with respect to the year in which Charles Martel visited Florence-the Comedy's autocitations may furnish clues to a more illternal poetic biography. 9 The linking of all three self-quotatlOns to episodes that relate to Dante's previous life is a signposti meetings reflect an experiential history, so the autocItatIOns. reflect a poetic history. In that they are depositories of a past, deliberately inscribed into a poetic present, the autocItatlOns are markers of a space in the text, a space defined as the relation between their previous existence outside the poem and their new existence within it. Why did Dante choose these specific poems for inclusion in the Comedy? Why did he place them where he did? Such questions face us with authorial decisions whose unraveling yields a definitive autobiography of the poet's lyric past,. Dante's final statement regarding the way he wants us to perceIve hIS poetic development, from its origins to the engendering of the great poem.
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