Dante : a brief history / Peter S. Hawkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawkins, Peter S.

Series:

Blackwell brief histories of religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Dante Alighieri.

Authors, Italian--To 1500--Biography.

Authors, Italian.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 194 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

Summary:

In A Brief History of Dante, Peter S. Hawkins brings the great Italian writer Dante Alighieri to life. Drawing on over 30 years' experience of teaching and writing about Dante, he introduces newcomers to the poet and his masterpiece, the Commedia.Hawkins starts by offering a brief account of the poet's life and works that demonstrates the importance of Dante's personal story to his writing, and by outlining the story of the Commedia. He then goes on to consider the prominence Dante gives to eros as part of spiritual life, and to probe his idiosyncratic interpretation of Christian theology. Finally, he traces how, over the centuries, Dante has been portrayed variously as a lover, a statesman, a Neo-Platonist, a proto-Protestant Reformer, a Romantic visionary, a Byronic hero, a Pre-Raphaelite, the father of his country, a theologian in verse, and "altissimo poeta," the consummate poet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [176]-183) and index.

ISBN:

1405130512

1405130520

9781405130516

9781405130523

OCLC:

62127941