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Buch 13-24
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 307.00In 1350, the Italian humanist and poet Francesco Petrarca decided to form a collection of all his correspondence. The letters deal with multifarious topics, switch between narration and instruction, the personal and the general, and are addressed to various of his learned friends and contemporaries. Theyconstitute a treasure trove for the history of... more...
Thinking Poetry
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come. more...
Dante: De vulgari eloquentia
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 27.00The first Latin-English text of Dante's treatise on language, together with notes and introduction. more...
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, 1: Inferno
Oxford University Press, USA 1996; US$ 18.99This new translation presents the Italian text of the Inferno, and, on facing pages, Robert Durling's new prose translation, which brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dantes extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and sardonic humor, and its penetrating analyses of the psychology of sin and the ills that plague... more...
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2
Oxford University Press, USA 2003; US$ 18.99The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining of the Garden of Eden and the reunion there... more...
The Divine Comedy, 1: Inferno
Oxford University Press, USA 1961; US$ 19.99An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries, appearing after each canto, which... more...
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 18.99Purgatorio' is the second of three volumes of a new edition and translation of Dante's masterpiece, 'The Divine Comedy'. Similar to volume I, 'The Inferno', this translation in English prose emphasizes the literal-vs-phonetic. A newly edited version of the Italian text is on facing pages and includes comprehensive notes. more...
Dante and the Making of a Modern Author
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 27.00The first comprehensive study of Dante's evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas of authorship and authority. more...
The Undivine Comedy
Princeton University Press 1992; US$ 49.95Accepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their own terms, Teodolinda Barolini proposes a "detheologized" reading as a global new approach to the Divine Comedy . Not aimed at excising theological concerns from Dante, this approach instead attempts to break out of the hermeneutic guidelines that Dante structured into his poem and that have resulted... more...
Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation
BRILL 2007; US$ 144.00Addresses the aspects of Petrarch research and interpretation: the interplay between Petrarch's texts and their material preparation and reception. This book aims to show how a Petrarchan hermeneutics must be based on an understanding of Petrarchan philology. more...









