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Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft volume Band 56
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Deutsch
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Helps readers through the literary experience of "The Divine Comedy," explaining the melding of poetry and mythology in the context of fourteenth century Florence and what it still means for modern day readers.
16) Dante Alighieri
Author
Series
Twayne's world authors volume TWAS 563
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Dante is the poet that everyone knows of yet also knows little about. And yet he was probably the most important and powerful poet that the Western world has ever produced. There are many translations of his work in English, but of Dante himself, most people only know about his love object Beatrice, that he was exiled from Florence and that he wrote The Divine Comedy--but maybe little else. In his Intelligent Person's Guide, Professor John Took introduces...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
This book provides an introduction to Dante that is at once accessible and challenging. Fifteen essays provide background information and up-to-date critical perspectives on Dante's life and work, focusing on areas of central importance. Three essays introduce the three canticles of the Divine Comedy, and others explore the literary, intellectual and historical background to Dante's writings, his other works and his reception in the commentary tradition...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Dante, whose Divine Comedy gave the world its most vividly imagined story of the afterlife, endured an extraordinary afterlife of his own. Exiled in death as in life, the Florentine poet has hardly rested in peace over the centuries. Like a saint's relics, his bones have been stolen, recovered, reburied, exhumed, examined, and, above all, worshiped. Actors in this graveyard history range from Lorenzo de' Medici, Michelangelo, and Pope Leo X to the...
