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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... exile from his native Florence because of the civil war ravaging the city; the poem he wrote, the Divina Commedia, made of his public and private memories; the turning of himself into an archetypal literary character, such as Ulysses ...
... exile from his native Florence because of the civil war ravaging the city; the poem he wrote, the Divina Commedia, made of his public and private memories; the turning of himself into an archetypal literary character, such as Ulysses ...
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... exile? Was Brunetto Latini an actual teacher of Dante? Was Dante ever a Franciscan novice? Did he attend both the theological schools of Santa Croce and Santa MariaNovellainFlorence? Andwhowas the “montanina” for whomDante, late in his ...
... exile? Was Brunetto Latini an actual teacher of Dante? Was Dante ever a Franciscan novice? Did he attend both the theological schools of Santa Croce and Santa MariaNovellainFlorence? Andwhowas the “montanina” for whomDante, late in his ...
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... exile. Yet, this tragic mistake notwithstanding, Dante still clung to his faith in his own comprehensive visionary powers to recall the muses from their banishment. To a civic humanist such as Leonardo Bruni, Boccaccio's celebration of ...
... exile. Yet, this tragic mistake notwithstanding, Dante still clung to his faith in his own comprehensive visionary powers to recall the muses from their banishment. To a civic humanist such as Leonardo Bruni, Boccaccio's celebration of ...
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... exile. Among the exiles was Dante's own friend, Guido Cavalcanti, who died late in August of that year. The events that followed the priors' momentous decision are so muddled and complex that a simplification is necessary. As soon as ...
... exile. Among the exiles was Dante's own friend, Guido Cavalcanti, who died late in August of that year. The events that followed the priors' momentous decision are so muddled and complex that a simplification is necessary. As soon as ...
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... exile to the year of his death, Dante's history is essentially the history of his works, and they cannot be understood without understanding the bleak clarity exile brought to his vision. He knew despair and almost certainly he ...
... exile to the year of his death, Dante's history is essentially the history of his works, and they cannot be understood without understanding the bleak clarity exile brought to his vision. He knew despair and almost certainly he ...
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