Life Of Dante

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714546162

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Life of Dante by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

"e;Life of Dante"e; brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni Boccaccio together with the historical analysis of leading humanist Leonardo Bruni. Their writings, along with the other sources included in this volume, provide a wealth of insight and information into Dante's unique character and life, from his susceptibility to the torments of passionate love, his involvement in politics, scholastic enthusiasms and military experience, to the stories behind the greatest heights of his poetic achievements.Not only are these accounts invaluable for their subject matter, they are also seminal examples of early biographical writing. Also included in this volume is a biography of Boccaccio, perhaps as great an influence on world literature as Dante himself.

Author : Alessandro Barbero
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1643139134

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Dante by Alessandro Barbero Pdf

Dante brings the legendary author—and the medieval Italy of his era— to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing. Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries. However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the context he wrote them in. In Dante, Barbero brings the legendary author’s Italy to life, describing the political intrigue, battles, city and society that shaped his life and work. The son of a shylock who dreams of belonging to the world of writers and nobles, we follow Dante into the dark corridors of politics where ideals are shattered by rampant corruption, and then into exile as he travels Italy and discovers the extraordinary color and variety of the countryside, the metropolises, and the knightly courts. This is a book by a serious scholar with real popular appeal, as evidenced by its bestseller ranking in Italy. It is a remarkable piece of forensic investigation into medieval Italian life.

Author : Stephen Bemrose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015050514978

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A New Life of Dante by Stephen Bemrose Pdf

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.

Author : Martin Eisner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192640932

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Dante's New Life of the Book by Martin Eisner Pdf

Dante's Vita nuova has taken on a wide variety of different forms since its first publication in 1294. How could one work have generated such different physical forms? Through examining the work's transformations in manuscripts, printed books, translations, and adaptations, Eisner reconceives of the relationship between the work and its reception. Dante's New Life of the Book investigates how these different material manifestations participate in the work, drawing attention to its distinctive elements. Dante framed his book as an attempt to understand his own experiences through the experimental form of the book, and later scribes, editors, and translators use different material forms to embody their interpretations of Dante's collection of thirty-one poems surrounded by prose narrative and commentary. Traveling from Boccaccio's Florence to contemporary Hollywood with stops in Emerson's Cambridge, Rossetti's London, Nerval's Paris, Mandelstam's Russia, De Campos's Brazil, and Pamuk's Istanbul, this study builds on extensive archival research to show how Dante's strange poetic forms, including incomplete canzoni and sonnets with two beginnings, continue to challenge readers. Each chapter focuses on how one of these distinctive features has been treated over time, offering new perspectives on topics such as Dante's love of Beatrice, his relationship with Guido Cavalcanti, and his attraction to another woman. Numerous illustrations show the entanglement of the work's poetic form and its material survival. Eisner provides a fresh reading of Dante's innovations, demonstrating the value of this philological analysis of the work's survival in the world.

Author : Rod Dreher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781941393772

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How Dante Can Save Your Life by Rod Dreher Pdf

The opening lines of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri launched Rod Dreher on a journey that rescued him from exile and saved his life. Dreher found that the medieval poem offered him a surprisingly practical way of solving modern problems. Following the death of his little sister and the publication of his New York Times bestselling memoir The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Dreher found himself living in the small community of Starhill, Louisiana where he grew up. But instead of the fellowship he hoped to find, he discovered that fault lines within his family had deepened. Dreher spiraled into depression and a stress-related autoimmune disease. Doctors told Dreher that if he didn’t find inner peace, he would destroy his health. Soon after, he came across The Divine Comedy in a bookstore and was enchanted by its first lines, which seemed to describe his own condition. In the months that followed, Dante helped Dreher understand the mistakes and mistaken beliefs that had torn him down and showed him that he had the power to change his life. Dreher knows firsthand the solace and strength that can be found in Dante’s great work, and distills its wisdom for those who are lost in the dark wood of depression, struggling with failure (or success), wrestling with a crisis of faith, alienated from their families or communities, or otherwise enduring the sense of exile that is the human condition. Inspiring, revelatory, and packed with penetrating spiritual, moral, and psychological insights, How Dante Can Save Your Life is a book for people, both religious and secular, who find themselves searching for meaning and healing. Dante told his patron that he wrote his poem to bring readers from misery to happiness. It worked for Rod Dreher. Dante saved Rod Dreher’s life—and in this book, Dreher shows you how Dante can save yours.

Author : Paget Jackson Toynbee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Authors, Italian
ISBN : HARVARD:32044015588577

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Dante Alighieri by Paget Jackson Toynbee Pdf

Author : Robert Hollander
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300084948

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Dante by Robert Hollander Pdf

The Divine Comedy, completed around 1320, is a supreme work of the imagination None of Dante's other works, nor even all of his other works taken together, can rival the Comedy. How did the Florentine exile come to create this masterpiece? What steps in his development can explain the making of this extraordinary poem? In this book, a preeminent Dante scholar turns to the poet's body of works - the only real biography of Dante that we have - to illuminate these questions. Through an exposition of Dante's other writings, Robert Hollander provides a concise intellectual biography of the writer whom many consider the greatest narrative poet of the modern era. Hollander writes for those who have already encountered the Comedy, suggesting to these readers how Dante's other works relate to the great poem and inviting them to reread the Comedy with new interest and understanding.

Author : R. W. B. Lewis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101162989

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Dante by R. W. B. Lewis Pdf

An insightful biography of Florence?s famous son Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here we meet the boy who first encounters the mythic Beatrice, the lyric poet obsessed with love and death, the grand master of dramatic narrative and allegory, and his monumental search for ultimate truth in The Divine Comedy. It is in this masterpiece of self-discovery and redemption that Lewis finds Dante?s own autobiography?and the sum of all his shifting passions and epiphanies.

Author : John Took
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691208930

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Dante by John Took Pdf

"For 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." --Amazon.com.

Author : Marco Santagata
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674984064

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Dante by Marco Santagata Pdf

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year A Times Higher Education Book of the Week A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Marco Santagata’s Dante: The Story of His Life illuminates one of the world’s supreme poets from many angles—writer, philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. Santagata brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dante’s medieval world, untangles a complex web of family and political relationships for English readers, and shows how the composition of the Commedia was influenced by local and regional politics. “Reading Marco Santagata’s fascinating new biography, the reader is soon forced to acknowledge that one of the cornerstones of Western literature [The Divine Comedy], a poem considered sublime and universal, is the product of vicious factionalism and packed with local scandal.” —Tim Parks, London Review of Books “This is a wonderful book. Even if you have not read Dante you will be gripped by its account of one of the most extraordinary figures in the history of literature, and one of the most dramatic periods of European history. If you are a Dantean, it will be your invaluable companion forever.” —A. N. Wilson, The Spectator

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002565922

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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015046445063

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Dante: His Life, His Times, His Works by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : Robert Hollander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300212593

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Dante by Robert Hollander Pdf

How did Dante come to create his masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, a work unrivaled by any of his other writings? In this book, a preeminent Dante scholar analyzes the only real biography of the poet that we have--his body of works--to illuminate this question. Robert Hollander considers Dante's political writings, commentary, and other poems as well as the Comedy to construct an intellectual biography of the great poet. "Hollander's lucid and brilliant discussion . . . is a joy to read."--Bernard Knox, New York Review of Books

Author : Paget Toynbee
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780486146423

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Dante Alighieri by Paget Toynbee Pdf

This invaluable study is a concise, accessible account which covers historical background, traces the poet's private and public life, and explores the Vita Nuova, the Convivio, the Divine Comedy, and Dante's Latin works.

Author : Maria Luisa Rizzatti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:39000000687017

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Dante by Maria Luisa Rizzatti Pdf