Academic : Literature : Italian literature : Individual authors and works to 1400

Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters, references, and themes. But until the publication in 2007 of Guy Raffa’s guide to the Inferno, students lacked a suitable resource to help them navigate Dante’s underworld. With this new guide to the entire Divine Comedy, Raffa provides readers—experts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Dante neophytes, and everyone in between—with a map of the entire poem, from the lowest circle of Hell to the highest sphere of Paradise.Based on Raffa’s original research and his many years of teaching the poem to undergraduates, The Complete Danteworlds charts a simultaneously geographical and textual journey, canto by canto, region by region, adhering closely to the path taken by Dante himself through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. This invaluable reference also features study questions, illustrations of the realms, and regional summaries. Interpreting Dante’s poem and his sources, Raffa fashions detailed entries on each character encountered as well as on many significant historical, religious, and cultural allusions. more...

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Dante Alighieri is one of the greatest poets in world history. His brilliant epic, "The Divine Comedy", an imagined journey through Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, continues to captivate readers. This work provides an information on his life and work. It covers Dante's canon, including his love poems in "La Vita Nuova" and his philosophical works. more...

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A comprehensive guide to Dante’s life and literature, with an emphasis on his Commedia . This text looks at the influences that shaped Dante’s writing, and the reception of his work by later readers, from the 14th century to the present.:.; Introduces Dante through four main approaches: the context of his life and career; his literary and cultural traditions; key themes, episodes and passages in his own work, especially the Commedia ; and the reception and appropriation of his work by later readers, from the fourteenth century to the present.; Written by an expert Dante scholar.; Provides new translations of substantial passages from Dante’s poems and from the world of his contemporaries.; Includes explanatory diagrams of Dante’s 'other-worlds', and a section of illustrations by medieval and modern artists.; Builds a vivid and complex picture of Dante's imagination, intellect and literary presence.; Helpful bibliographies include relevant web resources. more...

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The British Romantic poets were among the first to realise the centrality of the Divine Comedy for the evolution of the European epic. This study explores the significance of Dante for Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and William Blake. more...

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Exploring the Islamic roots of the Western values of tolerance and religious pluralism, this work considers Dante from the perspective of the Arab-Islamic philosophical tradition. It is of interest to Dante scholars and students, generalist medievalists, scholars of medieval philosophy, and others. more...

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