Dante: The Critical Heritage / Edition 1

by Michael Caesar

Overview

First published in 1995. The Critical Heritage series collects together a large body of criticism on major figures in literature. Each volume presents the contemporary responses to a particular writer, enabling the student to follow the formation of critical attitudes to the writer's work and its place within a literary tradition. This collection of critical writings about Dante, many of them published here in English for the first time, tries to offer a balanced survey of the poet's reception in both time and space. Its scope therefore differs from that of its main predecessors in both English and Italian.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415133975
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/09/1995
Series:	Critical Heritage Series
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	678
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Caesar

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Dante Alighieri, letter to Cangrande della Scala; Chapter 2 Giovanni del Virgilio, epistle to Dante; Chapter 3 Giovanni del Virgilio, epitaph intended for Dante's tomb; Chapter 4 Cecco d'Ascoli, against Dante's‘poetic’ treatment of science; Chapter 5 Fra Guido Vernani, censure of Dante's Monarchia; Chapter 6 Jacopo Alighieri, notes to the Inferno; Chapter 7 Graziolo de’ Bambaglioli, Proem to his commentary on the Inferno; Chapter 8 Jacopo della Lana, commentary on Purgatory XXXII, 109–41; Chapter 9 Guido da Pisa, Prologue to his commentary on the Inferno; Chapter 10 L'Ottimo (Andrea Lancia), commentary on Inferno XIII, 103–8; Chapter 11 Pietro Alighieri, Dante's seven kinds of meaning; Chapter 12 The six early commentaries on the opening lines of Inferno III, the inscription above the gate of hell; Chapter 13 Giovanni Villani, Chronicle of Florence: the first biography of Dante; Chapter 14 Francesco Petrarca, letter to Boccaccio; Chapter 15 Giovanni Boccaccio, life of Dante; Chapter 16 Giovanni Boccaccio, commentary on Inferno X, 52–72; Chapter 17 Geoffrey Chaucer, Ugolino and gentillesse in The Canterbury Tales; Chapter 18 Benvenuto da Imola, Guido da Montefeltro ( Inferno XXVII, 25–30); Chapter 19 Francesco da Buti, the allegorical interpretation of Beatrice; Chapter 20 Filippo Villani, on the life and customs of the distinguished comic poet Dante; Chapter 21 Coluccio Salutati, appeal for a decent text of the Comedy; Chapter 22 Leonardo Bruni, censure and exaltation of Dante; Chapter 23 Francisco Imperial, the seven virtues; Chapter 24 Christine de Pizan, the path of long study; Chapter 25 Alain Chartier, the Donation of Constantine; Chapter 26 Leonardo Bruni, Life of Dante, and comparison with Petrarch; Chapter 27 St Antoninus, the Florentine poet Dante and his errors; Chapter 28 Marsilio Ficino, Preface to his translation of the Monarchia; Chapter 29 Cristoforo Landino, commentary to the Divine Comedy; Chapter 30 Hartmann Schedel, Chronicle of the Worl