A comprehensive guide to <strong>Dante</strong>s life and literature with an emphasis on hisCommedia. This text looks at the influences that shaped Dantes writi... » 

A comprehensive guide to Dantes life and literature with an emphasis on hisCommedia. This text looks at the influences that shaped Dantes writing andthe reception of his work by later readers from the 14th century to thepresent. Introduces Dante through four main approaches the context of his lifeand career his literary and cultural traditions key themes episodes andpassages in his own work especially the Commedia and the reception andappropriation of his work by later readers from the fourteenth century to thepresent Written by an expert Dante scholar Provides new translations ofsubstantial passages from Dantes poems and from the world of hiscontemporaries Includes explanatory diagrams of Dantes otherworlds and asection of illustrations by medieval and modern artists Builds a vivid andcomplex picture of Dantes imagination intellect and literary presence Helpfulbibliographies include relevant web resources «