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Reading Dante.
A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to life in this exploration of the m...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Yale University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Open Yale Courses.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to life in this exploration of the man, his cultural milieu, and his endlessly fascinating works. Based on Mazzotta's highly popular Yale course, this book offers a critical reading of The Divine Comedy and selected other works by Dante. Through an analysis of Dante's autobiographical Vita nuova, Mazzotta establishes the poetic and political circumstances of The Divine Comedy. He situates the three sections of the poem--Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise--within the intellectual and social context of the late Middle Ages, and he explores the political, philosophical, and theological topicswith which Dante was particularly concerned. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 1306168295 9781306168298 0300191359 9780300191356 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |