The Cambridge Companion to DanteRachel Jacoff This 2007 second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Dante is designed to provide an accessible introduction to Dante for students, teachers and general readers. The volume was fully updated and includes three new essays on Dante's works. The suggestions for further reading now include secondary works and translations as well as online resources. The essays cover Dante's early works and their relation to the Commedia, his literary antecedents, both vernacular and classical, biblical and theological influences, the historical and political dimensions of Dante's works, and their reception. In addition there are introductory essays to each of the three canticles of the Commedia that analyse their themes and style. This edition will ensure that the Companion continues to be the most useful single volume for new generations of students of Dante. |
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... Guinizzelli is heading: he does not understand what the “wisdom of Bologna” (a reference to that city's university, noted as a center of philosophical study) has to do with love poetry, and he accuses Guinizzelli of writing pretentious ...
... Guinizzelli is heading: he does not understand what the “wisdom of Bologna” (a reference to that city's university, noted as a center of philosophical study) has to do with love poetry, and he accuses Guinizzelli of writing pretentious ...
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... Guinizzelli, and Guinizzelli's canzone “Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore” is an excellent case in point: its fifth stanza argues that the noble lover should obey his lady in the same way that the angelic intelligence obeys God, thus ...
... Guinizzelli, and Guinizzelli's canzone “Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore” is an excellent case in point: its fifth stanza argues that the noble lover should obey his lady in the same way that the angelic intelligence obeys God, thus ...
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... Guinizzelli both acknowledges the dangers of his audacious yoking of the secular with the divine, and brilliantly defends his analogical procedure. If his original “fault” was a too expansive definition of the likenesses through which ...
... Guinizzelli both acknowledges the dangers of his audacious yoking of the secular with the divine, and brilliantly defends his analogical procedure. If his original “fault” was a too expansive definition of the likenesses through which ...
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... Guinizzelli's theologized courtly love to confect his Beatrice, a lady whose powers to bless (people know her name, “she who beatifies,” “she who gives beatitudine,” without having ever been told) and whose links to the divine are ...
... Guinizzelli's theologized courtly love to confect his Beatrice, a lady whose powers to bless (people know her name, “she who beatifies,” “she who gives beatitudine,” without having ever been told) and whose links to the divine are ...
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... Guinizzelli's lady, supremely endowed with worth and beauty, there is a tragic catch. Yes, she is an “angelicata –criatura” (“angelic creature”) and “Oltra natura umana” (“Beyond human nature”)inthe earlyballata“Frescarosa novella ...
... Guinizzelli's lady, supremely endowed with worth and beauty, there is a tragic catch. Yes, she is an “angelicata –criatura” (“angelic creature”) and “Oltra natura umana” (“Beyond human nature”)inthe earlyballata“Frescarosa novella ...
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