The Cambridge Companion to DanteThis book provides an introduction to Dante that is at once accessible and challenging. Fifteen specially-commissioned essays by distinguished scholars provide background information and up-to-date critical perspectives on Dante's life and work, focusing on areas of central importance. Three essays introduce the three canticles of the Divine Comedy, and others explore the literary, intellectual and historical background to Dante's writings, his other works and his reception in the commentary tradition and in literature in English. The book also includes a chronological table and suggestions for further reading. |
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Contents
Life of Dante | 1 |
Dante and the lyric past | 14 |
Approaching the Vita nuova | 34 |
The unfinished author Dantes rhetoric of authority in Convivio and De vulgari eloquentia | 45 |
Dante and the empire | 67 |
Dante and Florence | 80 |
Dante and the classical poets | 100 |
Dante and the Bible | 120 |
A poetics of chaos and harmony | 153 |
Introduction to Inferno | 172 |
Introduction to Purgatorio | 192 |
Shadowy prefaces an introduction to Paradiso | 208 |
Dante and his commentators | 226 |
Dante in English | 237 |
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Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Cambridge Companion to Dante Cambridge Companions to Literature, Rachel Jacoff The Cambridge companions complete collection |
| Author | Rachel Jacoff |
| Editor | Rachel Jacoff |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0521427428, 9780521427425 |
| Length | 270 pages |
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