Martin L. McLaughlin

Zygmunt G. Barański

Celebrated in Italy as the 'Tre Corone' (the three crowns), Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio have exerted an immense influence over western culture. This book looks at their impact on Italian culture up to the Renaissance.

Reading Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio

Italy's Three Crowns

Lino Pertile

With each chapter written by an Italian specialist and a full introduction setting the novelists in their historical and cultural context, The New Italian Novel is essential reading for anyone wanting an English introduction to the best of Italian writing.

The New Italian Novel

Essays on Dante and 'genre'

'Libri Poetarum in Quattuor Species Dividuntur'

Simon Gilson

This newly commissioned volume presents a focused overview of Dante's masterpiece, the Commedia, offering readers of today wide-ranging insights into the poem and its core features. Leading scholars discuss matters of structure, narrative, language and style, characterization, doctrine, and politics, in chapters that make their own contributions to Dante criticism by raising problems and questions that call for renewed attention, while investigating contextual concerns as well as the current state of criticism about the poem. The Commedia is also placed in a variety of cultural and historical contexts through accounts of the poem's transmission and reception that explore both its contemporary influence and its continuing legacy today. With its accessible approach, its unstinting focus on the poem and its attention to matters that have not always received adequate critical assessment, this volume will be of value to all students and scholars of Dante's great poem.

The Cambridge Companion to Dante's ‘Commedia'

Essays in Honour of Giulio Lepschy

In Amicizia

International Dante Seminar 1

Il libro offre un ́analisi delle radici artistiche ed ideologiche della celebrazione dantesca dei segni divini e umani, indagando il rapporto di Dante con la tradizione simbolico-esegetica medievale. Esso mira a fissare le simpatie intellettuali di Dante nel mondo delle dispute tra filosofi, teologi ed esegeti. La tesi centrale è che, in generale, Dante si sente più vicino alla tradizione simbolico-esegetica che a quella filosofico-razionale. Nei modi dell ́esegesi dei segni divini, il poeta scopre un ́ideologia che contribuisce a guidare le sue riflessioni intellettuali, e anche alcune delle forme poetiche della Commedia. La vecchia distinzione critica tra Dante-poeta e Dante-pensatore sparisce se vista alla luce del simbolismo medievale.

saggi per una storia intellettuale di Dante Alighieri

Dante e i segni

In the past seven centuries Dante has become world renowned, with his works translated into multiple languages and read by people of all ages and cultural backgrounds. This volume brings together interdisciplinary essays by leading, international scholars to provide a comprehensive account of the historical, cultural and intellectual context in which Dante lived and worked: from the economic, social and political scene to the feel of daily life; from education and religion to the administration of justice; from medicine to philosophy and science; from classical antiquity to popular culture; and from the dramatic transformation of urban spaces to the explosion of visual arts and music. This book, while locating Dante in relation to each of these topics, offers readers a clear and reliable idea of what life was like for Dante as an outstanding poet and intellectual in the Italy of the late Middle Ages.

Dante in Context

Accessible and informative account of Dante's great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.

Zygmunt G. Barański

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