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
Innehållsförteckning
List of Plates and Diagrams.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: How to Use This Book.
Abbreviations.
Chronology of Significant Events, c.1200-1321.
Map: Dante’s Italy, c.1300.
Landmarks of a Life.
From the Baptistery to the Ponte Vecchio.
Learning in Florence.
From Florence to San Godenzo.
Landscapes of Exile.
Texts and Traditions.
Books, Authors, Libraries, Media.
Pagan Culture.
The Bible.
Faith Seeking Understanding: Christian Traditions of Thought
before Dante.
Saints, Contemplatives, Visionaries.
History, Politics, Science.
The Mother Tongue and the New Style.
Reading Dante.
Seeking Guidance.
Writing the City.
Confronting the Church.
Imagining Sin and Sainthood.
Understanding Love.
The Shadow of the Argo: Travel, Poetics, Language.
Postscript: Dante’s Readers.
Chronology of Significant Events in Dante’s Afterlife,
1322-2006.
Commentary, Criticism, Canonization.
Picturing and Performing the Commedia.
Controversy, Conflict, Crime.
Purgatorio: Poetics and Politics.
A Conversation about the Paradiso.
Glossary of Literary Terms.
Works Cited.
Electronic Resources.
Index
Om författaren
Nick Havely has taught courses on Dante and on medieval
literature for over thirty years at the University of York. His
published work on Italian trecento poetry began with a volume of
translations: Chaucer’s Boccaccio: Sources for Troilus and the
Knight’s and Franklin’s Tales (1980; reissued 1992) and
includes Dante’s Modern Afterlife: Reception and Response from
Blake to Heaney (1998) and Dante and the Franciscans:
Poverty and the Papacy in the ’Commedia’ (2004). He has recently
been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his next project,
which is a study entitled Dante in the English-Speaking World,
from the Fourteenth Century to the Present.
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