An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine ComedyFor all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work. Dante's writings are therefore never far away in this authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography
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.
Presents a verse translation of Dante's "Inferno" along with ten essays that analyze the different interpretations of the first canticle of the "Divine Comedy."
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents and his family that he has never asked before.
DANTE/INFERNO VOL 1 (BC)
Sequel to Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe.
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ways in which Dante was Eliot's truest mentor , a mentor who did not have to be overcome , without reducing the complex and extremely productive relationship to an inventory of borrowings and citations . But Dante's presence is in fact ...
Indeed , in the last years of the thirteenth century , Dante and the other practitioners of the " dolce stil novo " seem to me nothing less than theorists of the aesthetic . By emphasizing the marriage of matter and spirit ...
But in the Paradiso , and particularly in the house of Dante's supreme earthly father , Cacciaguida , Mars is vindicated , its essential qualities and powers reclaimed . This is not a defanged Mars under whose auspices Dante receives ...