A new life of Dante /
A New Life Of Dante is the first new biography in English, for nearly eighty years, of Italy's foremost writer and thinker. It weaves into a single narrative thread the whole of Dante's life and works. Beginning with his early activity as a lyric poet and his political career in Florence,...
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| Language: | English |
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Exeter :
University of Exeter Press,
2000
Exeter, UK : 2000 Exeter : 2000 |
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| Summary: | A New Life Of Dante is the first new biography in English, for nearly eighty years, of Italy's foremost writer and thinker. It weaves into a single narrative thread the whole of Dante's life and works. Beginning with his early activity as a lyric poet and his political career in Florence, it then moves to the power struggles leading to his exile in 1302. It goes on to cover his increasingly isolated wanderings ending with his final years in Verona and Ravenna This biography of Italy's foremost writer and thinker weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works. As well as his masterpiece the Divina Commedia, his other works are also given considerable attention Dante is an intensely philosophical writer as well as a sociopolitical one, and these intimately connected aspects are kept constantly in view in the extensive discussion of his writings. As well as his masterpiece the Divina Commedia, other works are also given considerable attention, particularly the De Vulgari Eloquentia, the Convivio, the Monarchia and the political letters. The aim is to make an account of Dante's life accessible to students and to the non-specialist reader |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xxi, 249 p. ; 24 cm xxi, 249 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (234-240) and index Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-240) and index Includes bibliographical references and index "A guide to further reading in English": p. xv-xviii |
| ISBN: | 0859895831 085989584X (pbk.) 085989584X 9780859895835 9780859895842 (pbk.) |