Dante / John Took.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Took, J. F., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Dante Alighieri.

Genre:

Biographies.

Early works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine ComedyFor all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work. Dante's writings are therefore never far away in this authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography, which offers a fresh account of the medieval Florentine poet's life and thought before and after his exile in 1302.Beginning with the often violent circumstances of Dante's life, the book examines his successive works as testimony to the course of his passionate humanity: his lyric poetry through to the Vita nova as the great work of his first period; the Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia and the poems of his early years in exile; and the Monarchia and the Commedia as the product of his maturity. Describing as it does a journey of the mind, the book confirms the nature of Dante's undertaking as an exploration of what he himself speaks of as "maturity in the flame of love."The result is an original synthesis of Dante's life and work.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Preface: In fondo, una serietà terribile

Chapter 1. Historical Considerations

Chapter 2. Biographical Considerations

Chapter 1. Preliminary Remarks: Love and Love- Intelligence

Chapter 2. Literary Hinterland: From Provençal to the stilo de la loda

Chapter 3. Literary Apprenticeship and a Coming of Age

Chapter 4. The Vita nova

Chapter 1. Compassionate Lady of the Casement and a Woman of Stone: The Pre-Exilic Rime

Chapter 2. The Convivio

Chapter 3. The De vulgari eloquentia: Language, Literature and the Ontologization of Art

Chapter 4. The Post- Exilic Rime

Chapter 1. The Commedia

Chapter 2. The Monarchia and the Political Letters

Chapter 3. The Questio de situ aque et terre, the Letter to Cangrande della Scala and the Eclogues

Afterword. A Coruscation of Delight

Select Bibliography

Index of names

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780691195407

0691195404

OCLC:

1134485796