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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... emperor. They have also tried to assess how real were the shifts in his philosophical and theological allegiances (whether or not he was ever an “Averroist” and what were the limits of his Thomism). And they have not neglected to ...
... emperor. They have also tried to assess how real were the shifts in his philosophical and theological allegiances (whether or not he was ever an “Averroist” and what were the limits of his Thomism). And they have not neglected to ...
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... emperor, arranged to mark the reconciliation of the popular factions, had no noticeable practical effects on the mood of the city, nor did it manage to efface the tragic memories of the defeat of Montaperti (1260), recalled in Inferno ...
... emperor, arranged to mark the reconciliation of the popular factions, had no noticeable practical effects on the mood of the city, nor did it manage to efface the tragic memories of the defeat of Montaperti (1260), recalled in Inferno ...
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... emperor. There were, however, other events which signalled ominous and disastrous consequences. Chief among them was the inauguration of Boniface VIII's theocratic papacy (1294) in the aftermathofthe collapse ofCelestine V's ideals ...
... emperor. There were, however, other events which signalled ominous and disastrous consequences. Chief among them was the inauguration of Boniface VIII's theocratic papacy (1294) in the aftermathofthe collapse ofCelestine V's ideals ...
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... . Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle's Ethics. From the viewpoint of Dante's own existential concerns, the Convivio addresses the issue of the relationship between philosophy and political power (the intellectual and the emperor), 9 Life of Dante.
... . Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle's Ethics. From the viewpoint of Dante's own existential concerns, the Convivio addresses the issue of the relationship between philosophy and political power (the intellectual and the emperor), 9 Life of Dante.
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... emperor. Henry, who was on his way to Rome where in 1312 he would be crowned by the pope, was expected to redress the political imbroglios in the various Italian cities of the north and of Tuscany. Dante himself hailed his arrival as a ...
... emperor. Henry, who was on his way to Rome where in 1312 he would be crowned by the pope, was expected to redress the political imbroglios in the various Italian cities of the north and of Tuscany. Dante himself hailed his arrival as a ...
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