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Dante

ISBN: 978-0-631-22852-3
Hardcover
320 pages
August 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
List Price: US $138.95
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  • Introduces Dante through four main approaches: the context of his life and career; his literary and cultural traditions; key themes, episodes and passages in his own work, especially the Commedia; and the reception and appropriation of his work by later readers, from the fourteenth century to the present
  • Written by an expert Dante scholar
  • Provides new translations of substantial passages from Dante’s poems and from the world of his contemporaries
  • Includes explanatory diagrams of Dante’s 'other-worlds', and a section of illustrations by medieval and modern artists
  • Builds a vivid and complex picture of Dante's imagination, intellect and literary presence
  • Helpful bibliographies include relevant web resources

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