The first comprehensive study of Dante's evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas of authorship and authority.[...]

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 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[...]

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 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[...]

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[...]

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[...]