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The Cambridge Companion to Dante » (REV)
Authors: Rachel Jacoff
ISBN-13: 9780521605816, ISBN-10: 0521605814
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2007
Edition: REV
Author Biography: Rachel Jacoff
Rachel Jacoff is Margaret Deffenbaugh and LeRoy Carlson Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies at Wellesley College.
Book Synopsis
A fully updated new edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.
Table of Contents
| 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 |
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