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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... traditions had on him: the Roman de la Rose, Provenc ̧al poetry, the Sicilian School, Guittone, and Brunetto Latini. These early literary experiments can objectively be viewed as phases in Dante's technical-poetic apprenticeship, but ...
... traditions had on him: the Roman de la Rose, Provenc ̧al poetry, the Sicilian School, Guittone, and Brunetto Latini. These early literary experiments can objectively be viewed as phases in Dante's technical-poetic apprenticeship, but ...
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... traditional, formulaic, Provenc ̧al poetic conventions. If Beatrice is a unique figure of love, it must follow that the poetry that celebrates her cannot but be a unique form of poetry. This poetic quest for a new style, which takes ...
... traditional, formulaic, Provenc ̧al poetic conventions. If Beatrice is a unique figure of love, it must follow that the poetry that celebrates her cannot but be a unique form of poetry. This poetic quest for a new style, which takes ...
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... tradition that had its roots in the Provenc ̧al poetry nourished by the rivalling courts of twelfth-century southern France. The conventions of troubadour love poetry – based on the notion of the lover's feudal service to midons ...
... tradition that had its roots in the Provenc ̧al poetry nourished by the rivalling courts of twelfth-century southern France. The conventions of troubadour love poetry – based on the notion of the lover's feudal service to midons ...
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... tradition of the Provenc ̧al sirventes; he experienced a religious conversion (becoming a member of the Frati Godenti c. 1265) that is reflected in his verse, which moves, by way of the conversion canzone “Ora parr`a s'eo saver`o ...
... tradition of the Provenc ̧al sirventes; he experienced a religious conversion (becoming a member of the Frati Godenti c. 1265) that is reflected in his verse, which moves, by way of the conversion canzone “Ora parr`a s'eo saver`o ...
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... traditional birth year of 1259 has recently been challenged in favor of c. 1250; he died in 1300), Dante (1265–1321), Cino (c. 1270–1336 or 1337), and the lesser Lapo Gianni, Gianni Alfani, and Dino Frescobaldi. In characterizing this ...
... traditional birth year of 1259 has recently been challenged in favor of c. 1250; he died in 1300), Dante (1265–1321), Cino (c. 1270–1336 or 1337), and the lesser Lapo Gianni, Gianni Alfani, and Dino Frescobaldi. In characterizing this ...
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