Dino S. Cervigni

Beginnings, Endings, Beginnings

Literary Tradition and Genre

The Vita of Benvenuto Cellini

Literature, Criticism, and Ethics

Heather Webb

Christopher Kleinhenz

Giuseppe Ledda

Unholy & Holy Violence in Dante's Comedy

The Modern and the Postmodern

Italy 1991

Literature & Science

Franco Fido

Goldoni 1993

This essay analyzes the topos of the dream, as basic in Dante's work as in the history of literature, in Dante's poetics.

Dante's Poetry of Dreams

Francis Petrarch & the European Lyric Tradition

Dante and Modern American Criticism

Exile Literature

Dante Alighieri

Dante (Alighieri)

nte Alighieri

This celebration of the poet's passionate love for his immortal Beatrice weaves together rapturous sonnets and canzoni with prose commentaries and an autobiographical narrative. A predecessor to The Divine Comedy, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) also serves as an ever-relevant treatise on the art and technique of poetry.

Dino S. Cervigni

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