Dante : the critical heritage

Author(s)

• Caesar, Michael

Bibliographic Information

Dante : the critical heritage

edited by Michael Caesar

（The critical heritage series）

Routledge, 1995

[Reprint ed.]

Note

First published in 1989

Bibliography: p. 638-646

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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

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Details

• NCID: BA26544085
• ISBN:
  • 0415133971
• LCCN: 88014886
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 656 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PQ4390.A2
  • DC19 : 851/.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA26544198