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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... poets of his time, as well as his role in local politics, which unavoidably reflected and shared in the larger struggles between pope and ... poet's life and his art. From this standpoint the role of the biographer 2 giuseppe mazzotta.
... poets of his time, as well as his role in local politics, which unavoidably reflected and shared in the larger struggles between pope and ... poet's life and his art. From this standpoint the role of the biographer 2 giuseppe mazzotta.
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... poet (accompanied, as happens in hagiographies, by an omen, such as the mother's prophetic dream). The two rhetorical strands converge in the central, exalted, narrative of the poet's fated growth and of the splendor of his imagination ...
... poet (accompanied, as happens in hagiographies, by an omen, such as the mother's prophetic dream). The two rhetorical strands converge in the central, exalted, narrative of the poet's fated growth and of the splendor of his imagination ...
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... poet's necessary disengagement from the responsibilities of the history of Florence an unacceptable way of bypassing the vital, empiricalforce of poetry, and of confining it to the realmof abstract metaphysical generalizations. Thus, in ...
... poet's necessary disengagement from the responsibilities of the history of Florence an unacceptable way of bypassing the vital, empiricalforce of poetry, and of confining it to the realmof abstract metaphysical generalizations. Thus, in ...
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... poet's life in Ravenna where she was a nun who had taken the name of Sister Beatrice. Family life had its public ... poet,is told in the Vita nuova. As Dante's love story for Beatrice, which the text primarily purports to be, it relates ...
... poet's life in Ravenna where she was a nun who had taken the name of Sister Beatrice. Family life had its public ... poet,is told in the Vita nuova. As Dante's love story for Beatrice, which the text primarily purports to be, it relates ...
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... poet's anxieties. He was also surrounded, as Giovanni Boccaccio reports, by disciples such as Pier Giardino ... poet of the afterlife experienced at the point of his own death – the inner core of his life seems destined to remain ...
... poet's anxieties. He was also surrounded, as Giovanni Boccaccio reports, by disciples such as Pier Giardino ... poet of the afterlife experienced at the point of his own death – the inner core of his life seems destined to remain ...
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