Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Life of Dante
- 2 Dante and the lyric past
- 3 Approaching the Vita nuova
- 4 The unfinished author
- 5 Dante and the empire
- 6 Dante and Florence
- 7 Dante and the classical poets
- 8 Dante and the Bible
- 9 The theology of Dante
- 10 A poetics of chaos and harmony
- 11 Introduction to Inferno
- 12 Introduction to Purgatorio
- 13 "Shadowy prefaces"
- 14 Dante and his commentators
- 15 Dante in English
- Further reading
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- 1 Life of Dante
- 2 Dante and the lyric past
- 3 Approaching the Vita nuova
- 4 The unfinished author
- 5 Dante and the empire
- 6 Dante and Florence
- 7 Dante and the classical poets
- 8 Dante and the Bible
- 9 The theology of Dante
- 10 A poetics of chaos and harmony
- 11 Introduction to Inferno
- 12 Introduction to Purgatorio
- 13 "Shadowy prefaces"
- 14 Dante and his commentators
- 15 Dante in English
- Further reading
- Index
Summary
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- The Cambridge Companion to Dante , pp. 261 - 270Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993