Lucia Boldrini's study examines how the literary and linguistic theories of Dante's Divine Comedy helped shape the radical narrative techniques of Joyce's last novel, Finnegans Wake. Through detailed parallel readings, she explores a range of connections: issues such as the question of Babel, litera[...]
The first comprehensive study of Dante's evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas of authorship and authority.[...]
De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Its opening consideration[...]
In this accessible critical introduction to Dante?s Divine Comedy Robin Kirkpatrick principally focuses on Dante as a poet and storyteller. He addresses important questions such as Dante?s attitude towards Virgil, and demonstrates how an early work such as the Vita nuova is a principal source of the[...]
This is the first new translation for forty years of a fascinating work of political theory, until now only available in academic libraries. Dante?s Monarchy addresses the fundamental question of what form of political organization best suits human nature; it embodies a political vision of startling[...]
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 w[...]
Simon Gilson explores Dante?s reception in his native Florence between 1350 and 1481. He traces the development of Florentine civic culture and the interconnections between Dante?s principal ?Florentine? readers, from Giovanni Boccaccio to Cristoforo Landino, and explains how and why both supporters[...]
From Mathew Pearl, the bestselling author of The Dante Club, a masterful tale of literature, obsession, and murder The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around his neck [...]
This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Cele[...]
This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of[...]
This Printz Honor Book is a "tender, honest exploration of identity" ("Publishers Weekly") that distills lyrical truths about family and friendship.
Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at th[...]
Marco Santagata s "Dante: The Story of His Life" illuminates one of the world s supreme poets from many angles writer, philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. Santagata brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dante s medieval world, untangles a complex web of family and poli[...]
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearMarco Santagata's Dante: The Story of His Life illuminates one of the[...]
Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of "The Divine Comedy", this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the "Paradiso". This volume consists of the prose translation of Giorgio Petrocchi's Italian text (which faces[...]
In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the cycle of the liberal arts, ethics, politics, and theology--interacted with poetry and elevated the Divine Comedy to a central position in shaping all other forms of discursive kno[...]
By systematically analyzing Dante's attitudes toward the poets who appear throughout his texts, Teodolinda Barolini examines his beliefs about the limits and purposes of textuality and, most crucially, the relationship of textuality to truth. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Librar[...]
Haven Irena Dante, seventeen, struggles with a dysfunctional family. Her workaholic father is never there, but his absence is filled by a loving mother harboring the secret and mysterious past of their family. The Dantes are inheritors of a centuries old legacy stretching back to Dante Alighieri him[...]