Dante and Medieval Latin Traditions Paperback / softback
by Peter Dronke
Paperback / softback
Description
In this book, Peter Dronke illustrates how medieval Latin traditions can help us to understand Dante's great poem 'The Divine Comedy'.
He first discusses medieval conceptions of allegory and vision, image and metaphor, symbol and myth, as well as some of Dante's own insights into the nature of poetic meaning.
Later chapters relate particular moments in the Comedy - the giants in Inferno, the apocalyptic showings in Purgatorio, and the solar heaven in Paradiso - to Dante's Latin inheritance.
All quotations from Italian are accompanied by English translations.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:24/02/1989
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- ISBN:9780521379601
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:24/02/1989
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521379601