Marco Santagata illuminates one of the world’s supreme poets from many angles—philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. He brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dante’s medieval world, untangles a complex web of family relationships for English readers, and shows the influence of local and regional politics on his writing.
The poem discusses "the state of the soul after death and presents an image of divine justice meted out as due punishment or reward", and describes Dante's travels through Hell,...
New translation of a fascinating work by one of the world's great poets This is the first new translation for forty years of a fascinating work of political theory.
Includes "The Divine Comedy," "The New Life," and other selected poems, prose, and letters accompanied by biographical and introductory sections.
Originally published in 1965, these seven essays reproduce the lectures that were delivered in Cambridge to mark the seventh centenary of the birth of Dante.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This edition is illustrated with astonishing artworks, from Hieronymus Bosch's depictions of a surreal, hellish landscapes and other Renaissance visions of the Last Judgement, to Gustave Doré's intricate engravings of the pilgrim's ...
To readers who view secrecy as a writerly virtue, the central pattern might well appear to be evidence of a brilliantly executed reticence: in the Vita nuova, Dante strives for From Mismapping the Underworld: Daring and Error in Dante's ...
Despite the polysemy of the word Romanticism, as explained by Lovejoy in his influential essay 'On the Discrimination of Romanticism' (1924), chronological definitions have progressively displaced ideological ones; moreover, ...
In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its “three crowns”: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.