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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... poem he wrote, the Divina Commedia, made of his public and private memories; the turning of himself into an ... poets have so quickly entered the domain of myth that they leave readers doubtful about the very reality of their existence ...
... poem he wrote, the Divina Commedia, made of his public and private memories; the turning of himself into an ... poets have so quickly entered the domain of myth that they leave readers doubtful about the very reality of their existence ...
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... poem: his poetic vision, like Byzantine art, is the microcosmic recapitulation of the totality of the world. Dante's poem, like the liturgical representations of the Ravenna basilicas, is an esthetic theology of the totality of history ...
... poem: his poetic vision, like Byzantine art, is the microcosmic recapitulation of the totality of the world. Dante's poem, like the liturgical representations of the Ravenna basilicas, is an esthetic theology of the totality of history ...
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... poets of the “dolce stil novo” or “sweet new style” (Purgatorio 24, 57), as Dante retrospectively baptizes the lyric movement that he helped spearhead in his youth. Like Giacomo, the other Sicilian poets were in the main court ...
... poets of the “dolce stil novo” or “sweet new style” (Purgatorio 24, 57), as Dante retrospectively baptizes the lyric movement that he helped spearhead in his youth. Like Giacomo, the other Sicilian poets were in the main court ...
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... poem) run on from line 11 to line 12: “lo suo bel portamento/e lo bel viso e 'l morbido sguardare.” The lady is in the ascendant, and the poem concludes with a poetic resolution that makes the point that there is no ideological ...
... poem) run on from line 11 to line 12: “lo suo bel portamento/e lo bel viso e 'l morbido sguardare.” The lady is in the ascendant, and the poem concludes with a poetic resolution that makes the point that there is no ideological ...
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