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Dante's Divine Comedy in early Renaissance England : the collision of two worlds / Jonathan Hughes.
Van Pelt Library PQ4385.G7 H84 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Jonathan, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia--Influence.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Appreciation--Great Britain.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
- English literature.
- Literature and society--England--History--To 1500.
- Literature and society.
- England--Intellectual life--1066-1485.
- England.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
- Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri).
- Art appreciation.
- English literature--Middle English.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Intellectual life.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 426 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Dante's Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England compares the intellectual, emotional, and religious world of Dante in 13th-century Florence with that of a group of English intellectuals gathered around Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, uncle of the King, Henry VI. Here, Jonathan Hughes establishes that there was a Renaissance in 15th-century England, encouraged by the discovery and translations of works of Greek philosophers and developments in science and medicine; and that vernacular writers in Gloucester's circle, such as John Lydgate and Robert Hoccleve, were of fundamental importance in exploring the meaning of the self and man's relationship with the natural world and the classical past. However, the appearance in 15th-century England of Dante's 'Commedia', the most popular work of the Middle Ages, served to remind writers and readers of the cost of intellectual enquiry: the loss of faith in a harmonious and beautiful world; the redemptive power of the love of a woman; and the tangible presence of an afterlife. Engagingly written and meticulously researched, this innovative study shines a new perspective on Dante scholarship as well as offering a unique anaylsis of intellectual thought and culture in 15th-century England"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Mercury : the arrival of Dante in England 1370-1450
- Jupiter : ancient Rome
- The sun (Apollo) : the legacy of ancient Greece
- Venus : nature and science
- The fixed stars : Fortune
- Luna (the Moon) women
- The primum mobile and the Empyrean : love and the afterlife
- Saturn : Melancholia
- Terram (the Earth) : conclusion and the afterlife of The divine comedy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hughes, Jonathan, 1952- Dante's Divine Comedy in early Renaissance England.
- ISBN:
- 9781350146273
- 1350146277
- 9781350146280
- 1350146285
- OCLC:
- 1249629409
- Publisher Number:
- 40031092378
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