| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxix, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante and she brings the general reader an an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem. This is far more than an exegesis of Dante?s three-part Commedia. The book provides a graphic account of the complicated geography of Dante's version of the afterlife and a sure guide to thirteenth-century Florence and the people and places that influenced him. At the same time it offers a literary experience that lifts the reader into the universal realms of poetry and mythology. Dante's questions are our questions: What is it to be a human being? How should we judge human behavior? What matters in life and in death? Reading Dante helps the reader to understand Dante?s answers to these timeless questions and to see how surprisingly close they sometimes are to modern answers; it underscores Dante's belief that poetry can change human lives. |
| Contents |
Friendship -- Power -- Life -- Love -- Time -- Numbers -- Words. |
| Subject |
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| ISBN |
9780871407429 hardback |
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0871407426 hardback |
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9781631490064 17.95 |
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1631490060 17.95 |
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