Dante and His Literary Precursors

Dante and His Literary Precursors
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Publisher : Four Courts Press
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Download or read book Dante and His Literary Precursors written by John C. Barnes and published by Four Courts Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores connections between Dante and literary contexts of periods earlier than his own, from the pre-Christian era to the thirteenth century. Essays include Pamela Williams (U. Hull), "Cato of Utica in Cicero's De Finibus and Dante's Commedia"; Teresa Hankey (U. Kent), "Dante and Statius"; Jean-Michel Picard (UCD), "Dante and Irish vision literature"; Drina Oldroyd (Griffith U.), "Dante and the medieval prophets"; John C. Barnes (UCD), "Dante's knowledge of Florentine history"; Claire Honess (U. Reading), "Dante and political poetry in the vernacular"; Stephen Bemrose (U. Exeter), "Dante's 'Neutral' Angels"; Lynne Press (QUB), "Modes of metamorphosis in the Commedia: Inferno XIII"; June Salmons (U. Wales, Swansea), "Tradition and innovation in Purgatori"; Prue Shaw (University College, London), "A reading of Purgatorio XXVI"; and Joanna Sciortino Nowlan (King's College, London), "Dante and the mystical tradition".


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