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Dante : a life in works / Robert Hollander.
LIBRA PQ4335 .H63 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hollander, Robert, 1933-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Poets, Italian--To 1500--Biography.
- Poets, Italian.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 222 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- The Divine Comedy, completed around 1320, is a supreme work of the imagination. None of Dante's other works, nor even all of his other works taken together, can rival the Comedy. How did the Florentine exile come to create this masterpiece? What steps in his development can explain the making of this extraordinary poem? In this book, a preeminent Dante scholar turns to the poet's body of works -- the only real biography of Dante that we have -- to illuminate these questions. Through an exposition of Dante's other writings, Robert Hollander provides a concise intellectual biography of the writer whom many consider the greatest narrative poet of the modern era.
- Hollander writes for those who have already encountered the Comedy, suggesting to these readers how Dante's other works relate to the great poem and inviting them to reread the Comedy with new interest and understanding.
- Contents:
- First Lyrics 7
- Vita nuova 12
- Later Lyrics 40
- Convivio I 45
- De vulgari Eloquentia 54
- Convivio II and III 74
- Convivio IV 81
- Commedia 90
- Truth and Poetry 94
- Allegory 97
- The Moral Situation of the Reader 104
- The Moral Order of the Afterworld 109
- Virgil 114
- Beatrice 121
- Bernard 127
- Politics 129
- The Poetry of the Comedy 144
- Monarchia 148
- Late Latin Works 167.
- Notes:
- An Italian version of this study was published by Editalia, Rome, 2000; this English text is longer and differs in format.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0300084943
- OCLC:
- 45087277
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