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  • In Dante's Wake

    Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition

    by John Freccero ...
    Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port. Starting on the sand of that very shore with Dante, John Freccero begins retracing the famous voyage recounted by the poet nearly 700 years ago.Freccero follows pilgrim and poet through the Comedy and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • The Decameron

    by Giovanni Boccaccio, G. H. McWilliam ...
    Translated by G. H. McWilliam ...
    In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each telling a story a day, for the ten days of their confinement - a hundred stories of love and adventure, life and death, and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Dante For Beginners

    by Joe Lee ...
    Series series For Beginners
    Dante For Beginners takes the reader on a trip starting in hell and ending in heaven. The reader gets a quick introduction to Dante and his times. Next, the reader meets a sweet lass named Beatrice and samples a bit of his other literary offerings, such as the great feast, the Convivio. But then it’s on to the big one, the Commedia, and a canto by canto description of the entire work. Characters, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati

    The Reprehension of Vice

    by Fabian Alfie ...
    ‘And by now, mind, it’s too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.’Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty and thievery. But in his Commedia, rather than denying this correspondence, Dante repeatedly acknowledged ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • Serious Play

    Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto

    by Robert Hanning ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage. The resulting depictions of addled lovers and rattled rulers create a unique dynamic of trenchant critique wrapped in amusing, enlightening, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Biblical Dante

    by V. Stanley Benfell ...
    Dante Alighieri cited the Bible extensively in his Commedia, but also used his epic poem to meditate on the meaning of the Scriptures as a 'true' text. The Biblical Dante provides close readings of passages from the Commedia to explore how Dante's concept of Biblical truth differs sharply from modern notions.V. Stanley Benfell examines Dante's argument that the truth of the sacred text could only ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Petrarch's Canzoniere and the Petrarchan Tradition

    Edited by Christopher Kleinhenz, Andrea Dini ...
    Series Book 129 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    One of the most important authors of the Middle Ages, Petrarch occupies a complex position: historically, he is a medieval author, but, philosophically, he heralds humanism and the Renaissance. Teachers of Petrarch's Canzoniere and his formative influence on the canon of Western European poetry face particular challenges. Petrarch's poetic style brings together the classical tradition, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy

    Volume 2

    by George Corbett, Heather Webb ...
    Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to ... Read more

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  • Petrarch's 'Fragmenta'

    The Narrative and Theological Unity of 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta'

    by Thomas E Peterson ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, a collection of lyric poems on sacred and profane love and other subjects, has traditionally been viewed as reflecting the conflicted nature of its author. However, award winning author Thomas E. Peterson argues that Petrarch’s Fragmenta is an ordered and coherent work unified by narrative and theological structures.By concentrating on the poem’s reliance on ... Read more

    $64.09 USD

  • On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities

    by Geoffrey Symcox ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The first treatise ever written on the sociology of cities, On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities (1588) marked a radical departure from previous literature on urban centres. It provided a revolutionary analysis of how cities function, and of the political, economic, demographic and geographic factors that cause their growth and decline. Noteworthy too is Botero’s strikingly ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The World of Dante

    Six Studies in Language and Thought

    Edited by S. Bernard Chandler, Julius Molinaro ...
    Series series Heritage
    In celebration of the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante in 1265 the Dante Society of Toronto invited six internationally known scholars to address its members. Believing that the greatest tribute to Dante lies in the constant acquisition of a deeper knowledge of his work, the Society prescribed no common theme, but asked only that each paper should present an original contribution to Dante ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Dante's Fearful Art of Justice

    by Anthony Cassell ...
    Series series Heritage
    Dante's Fearful Art of Justice deals primarily with the symbolic significance of 'the state of souls after death' in various episodes of the Inferno, the first canticle of Dante's Divina Commedia. The fruitlessness of the Auerbach-Singleton approach to the poem is demonstrated by Professor Cassell's investigations, which are based on the belief that Dante used both the theological system of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD