The Unexpected Dante

Author : Lucia Alma Wolf
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684483570

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The Unexpected Dante by Lucia Alma Wolf Pdf

Dante Alighieri’s long poem The Divine Comedy has been one of the foundational texts of European literature for over 700 years. Yet many mysteries still remain about the symbolism of this richly layered literary work, which has been interpreted in many different ways over the centuries. The Unexpected Dante brings together five leading scholars who offer fresh perspectives on the meanings and reception of The Divine Comedy. Some investigate Dante’s intentions by exploring the poem’s esoteric allusions to topics ranging from musical instruments to Roman law. Others examine the poem’s long afterlife and reception in the United States, with chapters showcasing new discoveries about Nicolaus de Laurentii’s 1481 edition of Commedia and the creative contemporary adaptations that have relocated Dante’s visions of heaven and hell to urban American settings. This study also includes a guide that showcases selected treasures from the extensive Dante collections at the Library of Congress, illustrating the depth and variety of The Divine Comedy’s global influence. The Unexpected Dante is thus a boon to both Dante scholars and aficionados of this literary masterpiece. Published by Bucknell University Press in association with the Library of Congress. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Lydia Yaitsky Kertz,Richard K. Emmerson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501516900

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Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition by Lydia Yaitsky Kertz,Richard K. Emmerson Pdf

Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition honors Ronald B. Herzman, SUNY Geneseo Distinguished Teaching Professor of English. Over more than fifty years Professor Herzman has been a major force in the promotion of medieval studies within academe and public humanities. This volume of essays by his colleagues, students, and friends celebrates Professor Herzman’s outstanding career and reflects the wide range of his scholarly and pedagogical influence, from biblical and early Christian topics to Dante, Langland, and Shakespeare.

Author : Catherine George,Maoko Nagasaki
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596282231

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DANTE'S UNEXPECTED LEGACY by Catherine George,Maoko Nagasaki Pdf

Rose flew to Firenze upon receiving a call for help from her close friend. But it was not her friend who welcomed her when she arrived?it was Dante, an attractive and sexy businessman. The two had fallen in love four years ago and spent a night in each other's arms. Rose was alone when she woke up the following morning, and not long afterward, Dante married his fianc?e. So Dante was a playboy. There's no way Rose can tell the truth to someone like him. The truth that a little angel was created that night with Dante, and Rose has decided to keep it a secret.

Author : Adolph Caso
Publisher : Branden Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0937832162

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Dante in the Twentieth Century by Adolph Caso Pdf

Author : Filippo Gianferrari
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198881780

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Dante's Education by Filippo Gianferrari Pdf

In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent in Florence) and provided a crucial means for the vernacularization and secularization of learning, and for the democratization of citizenship. Dante Alighieri's education and oeuvre sit squarely at the heart of this historical and cultural transition and provide an ideal case study for investigating the impact of Latin education on the consolidation of autonomous vernacular literature in the Middle Ages, a fascinating and still largely unexamined phenomenon. On the basis of manuscript and archival evidence, Gianferrari reconstructs the contents, practice, and readings of Latin instruction in the urban schools of fourteenth-century Florence. It also shows Dante's continuous engagement with this culture of teaching in his poetics, thus revealing his contribution to the expansion of vernacular literacy and education. The book argues that to achieve his unprecedented position of authority as a vernacular intellectual, Dante conceived his poetic works as an alternative educational program for laypeople, who could read and write in the vernacular but had little or no proficiency in Latin. By reconstructing the culture of literacy shared by Dante and his lay readers, Dante's Education shifts critical attention from his legacy as Italy's national poet, and a "great books" author in the Western canon, to his experience as a marginal intellectual engaged in advancing a marginal culture.

Author : William Franke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226259978

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Dante's Interpretive Journey by William Franke Pdf

Franke reads the Divine Comedy through the insights into interpretation developed by hermeneutics, and at the same time uses Dante's poem, with its interpretive praxis based on a theological vision, to challenge prevailing assumptions about interpretation today. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253012401

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Dante's Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition by Dante Alighieri Pdf

This new critical edition, including Mark Musa's classic translation, provides students with a clear, readable verse translation accompanied by ten innovative interpretations of Dante's masterpiece.

Author : Francesco Ciabattoni
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111406824

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Dante’s Performance by Francesco Ciabattoni Pdf

Author : Patrick Boyde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521026652

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Human Vices and Human Worth in Dante's Comedy by Patrick Boyde Pdf

Patrick Boyde brings Dante's thought and poetry into focus for the modern reader by restoring the Comedy to its intellectual and literary context in 1300. He begins by describing the authorities that Dante acknowledged in the field of ethics and the modes of thought he shared with the great thinkers of his time. After giving a clear account of the differing approaches and ideals embodied in Aristotelian philosophy, Christianity and courtly literature, Boyde concentrates on the poetic representation of the most important vices and virtues in the Comedy. He stresses the heterogeneity and originality of Dante's treatment, and the challenges posed by his desire to harmonize these divergent value-systems. The book ends with a detailed case study of the 'vices and worth' of Ulysses in which Boyde throws light on recent controversies by deliberately remaining within the framework of the thirteenth-century assumptions, methods and concepts explored in previous chapters.

Author : Joseph Tusiani
Publisher : Legas / Gaetano Cipolla
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781881901297

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Dante's Divine Comedy by Joseph Tusiani Pdf

A prose retelling of Dante's poem about a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.

Author : James Miller
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780889209275

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Dante & the Unorthodox by James Miller Pdf

During his lifetime, Dante was condemned as corrupt and banned from Florence on pain of death. But in 1329, eight years after his death, he was again viciously condemned—this time as a heretic and false prophet—by Friar Guido Vernani. From Vernani’s inquisitorial viewpoint, the author of the Commedia “seduced” his readers by offering them “a vessel of demonic poison” mixed with poetic fantasies designed to destroy the “healthful truth” of Catholicism. Thanks to such pious vituperations, a sulphurous fume of unorthodoxy has persistently clung to the mantle of Dante’s poetic fame. The primary critical purpose of Dante & the Unorthodox is to examine the aesthetic impulses behind the theological and political reasons for Dante’s allegory of mid-life divergence from the papally prescribed “way of salvation.” Marking the septicentennial of his exile, the book’s eighteen critical essays, three excerpts from an allegorical drama, and a portfolio of fourteen contemporary artworks address the issue of the poet’s conflicted relation to orthodoxy. By bringing the unorthodox out of the realm of “secret things,” by uncensoring them at every turn, Dante dared to oppose the censorious regime of Latin Christianity with a transgressive zeal more threatening to papal authority than the demonic hostility feared by Friar Vernani.

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780429576508

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The Life of Dante by Giovanni Boccaccio Pdf

Published in 1990: This book tells the life story of Dante, the poet and his work.

Author : Mark Vernon
Publisher : Angelico Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781621387480

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Dante's Divine Comedy by Mark Vernon Pdf

Dante Alighieri was early in recognizing that our age has a problem. His hometown, Florence, was at the epicenter of the move from the medieval world to the modern. He realized that awareness of divine reality was shifting, and that if it were lost, dire consequences would follow. The Divine Comedy was born in a time of troubling transition, which is why it still speaks today. Dante's masterpiece presents a cosmic vision of reality, which he invites his readers to traverse with him. In this narrative retelling and guide, from the gates of hell, up the mountain of purgatory, to the empyrean of paradise, Mark Vernon offers a vivid introduction and interpretation of a book that, 700 years on, continues to open minds and change lives.

Author : George Corbett,Heather Webb
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783741724

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Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy by George Corbett,Heather Webb Pdf

Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem. This collection – to be issued in three volumes – offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante. The volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the ‘Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy’ website.

Author : Catherine Spencer
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459251687

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Dante's Twins by Catherine Spencer Pdf

The boss, his bride…and their babies! Leila wasn't marrying her boss, Dante Rossi, for his money, contrary to office gossip. She loved him and she believed he felt the same…until the reappearance of her millionaire ex-boyfriend. Suddenly it wasn't just jealous colleagues who believed she was a gold digger—so did Dante! Only the unexpected news of her pregnancy stopped him from calling off the wedding. But Leila wished Dante was marrying because he loved her, not just because she was the mother of his unborn twins…. She's sexy, she's successful…and she's PREGNANT!