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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... theological allegiances (whether or not he was ever an “Averroist” and what were the limits of his Thomism). And they have not neglected to unearth numberless details about his family circumstances in the effort to grasp the elusive ...
... theological allegiances (whether or not he was ever an “Averroist” and what were the limits of his Thomism). And they have not neglected to unearth numberless details about his family circumstances in the effort to grasp the elusive ...
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... theological schools of Santa Croce and Santa MariaNovellainFlorence? Andwhowas the “montanina” for whomDante, late in his life, wrote exquisite poems? The only remarkable exception to this pattern of the biographical genre is Giovanni ...
... theological schools of Santa Croce and Santa MariaNovellainFlorence? Andwhowas the “montanina” for whomDante, late in his life, wrote exquisite poems? The only remarkable exception to this pattern of the biographical genre is Giovanni ...
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... theology (Remigio dei Girolami). This deepening of the intellectual horizon of his youth meant that the idea of poetry embodied in the Vita nuova appeared now as a coiled cipher, as a severely limited experience because it was ...
... theology (Remigio dei Girolami). This deepening of the intellectual horizon of his youth meant that the idea of poetry embodied in the Vita nuova appeared now as a coiled cipher, as a severely limited experience because it was ...
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... theological discourse. The De vulgari eloquentia envisions the vitality of the vernacular as the root and bark of the politics, law, poetry, and theology of the whole of Italy. The Convivio, on the other hand, presents itself as an ...
... theological discourse. The De vulgari eloquentia envisions the vitality of the vernacular as the root and bark of the politics, law, poetry, and theology of the whole of Italy. The Convivio, on the other hand, presents itself as an ...
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... theological principles that shape his poem: his poetic vision, like Byzantine art, is the microcosmic recapitulation ... theology of the totality of history, eclectically made up of elements from the theologies and philosophies of ...
... theological principles that shape his poem: his poetic vision, like Byzantine art, is the microcosmic recapitulation ... theology of the totality of history, eclectically made up of elements from the theologies and philosophies of ...
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