Dante : the critical heritage / edited by Michael Caesar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caesar, Michael.

Series:

Critical heritage series.

The Critical heritage series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation.

Dante Alighieri.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1213 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1989.

Summary:

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; General Editor's Preface; Contents; PREFACE; A NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; STANDARD REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 Dante's first readers: self-exegesis and opposition; the special case of the Monarchia; 2 The consensus around Dante: the early diffusion of his work, especially the Divina Commedia; 3 The early fourteenth-century commentaries and the problem of allegory; 4 Cultural shifts in the mid-fourteenth century: Petrarch and Boccaccio

5 Biographies, commentaries, and the merchant-readers of the late fourteenth century6 Dante's fortunes abroad, particularly in Spain; 7 The humanist critique of Dante; 8 Florentine patriotism and Neo-Platonism; 9 Pietro Bembo and the 'question of the language'; 10 Sixteenth-century editions and readers; the Florentine Academy; 11 Dante and Petrarch; comparisons with contemporary painters; 12 Dante's reception abroad in the sixteenth century; the special case of Protestant readings; 13 Aristotelian poetics and the Dante-quarrel of the late sixteenth century

14 The Counter-Reformation and the definition of Christian poetry15 Why was Dante not popular in the seventeenth century?; 16 England, Germany, France. Neo-classicism and Arcadia; 17 Gravina and Vico; 18 The eighteenth century: erudition, primitivism, and emotionalism; 19 Silences and interjections: the limitations of the eighteenth-century reading of Dante; 20 Pre-Romantic stirrings: the themes of energy and originality; 21 The German Romantics; 22 England 1818 and after; 23 The liberal historians and Ugo Foscolo; 24 Dante and history in the nineteenth century

25 History and philology: Dante in France and Germany26 Dante in the Risorgimento and the figure of Beatrice; 27 The popularity of Dante (1). Dante as a best-selling author: the schools and the middle classes; 28 The popularity of Dante (2). Nineteenth-century translations; knowledge of Dante outside France, Germany, and England; 29 The popularity of Dante (3). The sixth centenary, 1865; 30 'Synthesis' gives way to 'analysis'; TEXTS; 1 DANTE ALIGHIERI, letter to Cangrande della Scala, 1314-17 or 1319-20; 2 GIOVANNI DEL VIRGILIO, epistle to Dante, 1319 or first half 1320

3 GIOVANNI DEL VIRGILIO, epitaph intended for Dante's tomb, 13214 CECCO D'ASCOLI, against Dante's 'poetic' treatment of science, not later than 1327; 5 FRA GUIDO VERNANI, censure of Dante's Monarchia, between 1327 and 1334; 6 JACOPO ALIGHIERI, notes to the Inferno, between 1322 and 1333, prob. before 1324; 7 GRAZIOLO DE' BAMBAGLIOLI, Proem to his commentary on the Inferno, 1324; 8 JACOPO DELLA LANA, commentary on Purgatory XXXII, 109-41, between 1323 and 1328, or 1327 and 1333; 9 GUIDO DA PISA, Prologue to his commentary on the Inferno, 1327-8, or 1328-33, or 1343-50

10 L'OTTIMO (ANDREA LANCIA), commentary on Inferno XII, 103-8, 1333-40

Notes:

First issued in paperback 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-134-55246-7

0-415-60448-6

1-315-88868-8

1-134-55239-4

9781315888682

OCLC:

861081956