DanteISBN: 978-0-631-22853-0
Paperback
320 pages
November 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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A comprehensive guide to Dante’s life and literature, with an
emphasis on his Commedia. This text looks at the influences
that shaped Dante’s writing, and the reception of his work by
later readers, from the 14th century to the present.
- 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