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Authors: Rachel Jacoff
ISBN-13: 9780521844307, ISBN-10: 0521844304
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2007
Edition: REV
Rachel Jacoff is Margaret Deffenbaugh and LeRoy Carlson Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies at Wellesley College.
A fully updated new edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.
List of charts | ||
List of contributors | ||
Preface | ||
Chronological table | ||
1 | Life of Dante | 1 |
2 | Dante and the lyric past | 14 |
3 | Approaching the Vita nuova | 34 |
4 | The unfinished author: Dante's rhetoric of authority in Convivio and De vulgari eloquentia | 45 |
5 | Dante and the empire | 67 |
6 | Dante and Florence | 80 |
7 | Dante and the classical poets | 100 |
8 | Dante and the Bible | 120 |
9 | The theology of Dante | 136 |
10 | A poetics of chaos and harmony | 153 |
11 | Introduction to Inferno | 172 |
12 | Introduction to Purgatorio | 192 |
13 | "Shadowy prefaces": an introduction to Paradiso | 208 |
14 | Dante and his commentators | 226 |
15 | Dante in English | 237 |
Further reading | 259 | |
Index | 261 |