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The Cambridge Companion to Dante (Cambridge Companions to Literature) 2nd Edition

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This 2007 second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Dante is designed to provide an accessible introduction to Dante for students, teachers and general readers. The volume was fully updated and includes three new essays on Dante's works. The suggestions for further reading now include secondary works and translations as well as online resources. The essays cover Dante's early works and their relation to the Commedia, his literary antecedents, both vernacular and classical, biblical and theological influences, the historical and political dimensions of Dante's works, and their reception. In addition there are introductory essays to each of the three canticles of the Commedia that analyse their themes and style. This edition will ensure that the Companion continues to be the most useful single volume for new generations of students of Dante.

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A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.

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Rachel Jacoff is Margaret Deffenbaugh and LeRoy Carlson Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies at Wellesley College.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (March 5, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 338 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521844304
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521844307
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.37 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1 x 9.25 inches

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L. MB

Kindle ed. : Worth every penny

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2008

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The endnotes don't link, but that isn't really an issue because they are at the end of each chapter and 90% of the time only give reference to other books. I know that is important, but not to the actual reading. I just bookmark the page as I get to it if it contains a book I want to reference. Or I highlight, add note ect. The book has a couple of format issues, but really small, gaps in strange places, line breaks out of place. But these are few and far between. It is a great collection of essays on the Divine Comedy that really increases the understanding of the readings. I highly recommend it. I don't have the paper copy, only the Kindle, and I am very glad to have it. It is in my top 5 favorite Amazon purchases.

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Bob R Bogle

The Cambridge Companion to Dante

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2022

As ever, the Cambridge Companion series can be counted on to reliably deliver the goods in this 1993 edition on the topic of Dante Alighieri. Anyone who makes it though this book feels a level of accomplishment equivalent to having completed a graduate level course on the famous exile from Florence.

Dante is daunting. Dante lived at the dawn of the 14th century and the whole world he knew seems drastically foreign to our own. No English translation can ever convey the subtleties of the actual words he set down, but I won't be making the effort to learn Italian and read it in the original. His Ptolemaic cosmology is diametrically at odds with our own scientific understanding of the planets and the galaxies and our modern and secular understanding of cosmological history and evolution. In short, I find it a real challenge to dissociate myself sufficiently from my own world and experiences and do the seriously heavy lifting required to try to inhabit Dante's world, which so often seems to have little practical connection to our own.

Of course all history impinges on our present, and there is always something to be learned from studying the past. I now have a better feel for Dante's moment in time, although I acknowledge that my grip on it remains tenuous.

This book may not cover ever aspect of Dante's life and works ― commentators have been laboring to do just that for centuries, and this book is only 270 pages long ― but it certainly covers a good deal of ground. If you're interested in Dante, I expect this book is worth reading, and is probably better than many others you might stumble upon. Having myself now read two translations of the Divine Comedy and the Vita Nuova and now this Cambridge Companion, I am satisfied that I won't aim to be numbered among the dantisti of the world. That's okay. Too many other things I still want to do.

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George E Garcia

The Cambridge Companion to Dante (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2014

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A "Must Have" for reading and understanding Dante. I have read Dante twice before and this book greatly adds to my reading and depth of my understanding.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2016

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Perfect reference to scholarly articles concerning Dante and his work.

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2016

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Wonderful background to Dante.

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David Reimer

Slightly dated scholarship for the penny-wise

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2007

This is an able commentary to Dante, but make sure you are clear on which edition you are purchasing: the most recent (as of this review) is a March 2007 version. Sufficient edits, insights and scholarly arguments (let's not quite call them developments) exist in the 14 years between publications to make it worth being certain what you're buying before you buy.

Then again - the 1993 edition is available used for under three bucks, while the 2007 edition ranges from $25 to $50. So... choose your priority.

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Charles Day

Open my eyes that I may see

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2013

I'm just finishing my first reading of the Divine Comedy. Before tackling this daunting work I went to a good college library and checked out 5 books: The Burton Raffel translation; The Cambridge Companion to Dante (ed. by Rachel Jacoff - focus of this review); The Dante Encyclopedia edited by Richard Lansing; Images of the Journey in Dante's Divine Comedy by Taylor and Finley; and Understanding Dante by John Scott. All were very helpful and I switched back and forth as I read the Dante text. The Raffel text flows nicely and Dante explains his experiences well, but I would be sailing along in the story line then suddenly thinking, I have no idea what Dante is talking about here. The reference books and the Intro and Notes in the Raffel were an attention saver. Dante often launches into deep, detailed discussions without warning or explanation.

It was helpful to go to a great collection of artistic images to get pictures in my mind, so I could visualize what Dante was writing. I was sustained by the almost comic 15th C. picture of Beatrice literally shooting darts at Dante with her eyes, tipping him over with her glance of love, the power of her gaze. Taylor and Finley have organized their work in such a way that it is simple to go right to the part of the Commedia the reader is working on. The Dante Encyclopedia provided scholarly, helpful explanations of the meriad details Dante employs.

As to The Cambridge Companion to Dante, I found the articles by the editor/author especially helpful. She provides easy-to-understand discussions of the basic story and the MEANING AND POINT of what Dante is saying. There is an enormous amount of symbolism and the character, Beatrice, is the primary actor - everything leads to God through Beatrice. But it is easy to forget this because she does not actually appear in the text until the end of Purgatorio. Yet her role is continually referenced.

With such good resources as The Cambridge Companion to Dante by Rachel Jacoff an enjoyable and spiritually enriching experience is all but assured.

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