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Table of Contents:

• Life of Dante / Giuseppe Mazzotta
• Dante and the lyric past / Teodolinda Barolini
• Approaching the Vita nuova / Robert Pogue Harrison
• The unfinished author : Dante's rhetoric of authority in Convivio and De vulgari eloquentia / Albert Russell Ascoli
• Dante and the empire / Charles Till Davis
• Dante and Florence / John M. Najemy
• Dante and the classical poets / Kevin Brownlee
• Dante and the bible / Peter S. Hawkins
• The theology of Dante / Christopher Ryan
• A poetics of chaos and harmony / Joan Ferrante
• Introduction to Inferno / John Freccero
• Introduction to Purgatorio / Jeffrey T. Schnapp
• "Shadowy prefaces" : an introduction to Paradiso / Rachel Jacoff
• Dante and his commentators / Robert Hollander
• Dante in English / David Wallace.

Contributors:

Jacoff, Rachel

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Subjects:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 — Criticism and interpretation

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

Criticism and interpretation

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-260) and index.

Physical Description:

xx, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

PQ4335 .C36 1993

ISBNs:

0521417481 (hc)
0521427428 (pbk)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

92017126

OCLC Numbers:

25964332