The Cambridge Companion to Dante
Three essays introduce the three canticles of the Divine Comedy, while twelve explore the literary, intellectual and historical background to Dante's writings, his other works and his reception in the commentary tradition and in literature in English.
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A fully updated new edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.
List of chartsList of contributorsPrefaceChronological table1Life of Dante12Dante and the lyric past143Approaching the Vita nuova344The unfinished author: Dante's rhetoric of authority in Convivio and De vulgari eloquentia455Dante and the empire676Dante and Florence807Dante and the classical poets1008Dante and the Bible1209The theology of Dante13610A poetics of chaos and harmony15311Introduction to Inferno17212Introduction to Purgatorio19213"Shadowy prefaces": an introduction to Paradiso20814Dante and his commentators22615Dante in English237Further reading259Index261
