Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati
Title | Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati PDF eBook |
Author | Fabian Alfie |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2011-11-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1442693479 |
‘And by now, mind, it’s too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.’ Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty and thievery. But in his Commedia, rather than denying this correspondence, Dante repeatedly acknowledged and evoked the memory of his youthful put-downs. Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati examines the lasting impact of these sonnets on Dante's writings and Italian literary culture, notably in the work of Giovanni Boccaccio. Fabian Alfie expands on derision as an ethical dimension of medieval literature, both facilitating the reprehension of vice and encouraging ongoing debates about the true nature of nobility. Outlining a broad perspective on the uses of literary insult, Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati also provides an evocative glimpse of Dante's day-to-day life in the twelfth century.
Dante's Poetry of the Donati
Title | Dante's Poetry of the Donati PDF eBook |
Author | Piero Boitani |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Members of the Florentine family of the Donati feature prominently in Dante's Divine Comedy . Their presence is explored by Piero Boitani, as a 'comedy' within the Comedy, in close readings of the three major episodes in which they appear, one for each of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso .
Dante's Poetry of Donati: The Barlow Lectures on Dante Delivered at University College London, 17-18 March 2005: No. 7
Title | Dante's Poetry of Donati: The Barlow Lectures on Dante Delivered at University College London, 17-18 March 2005: No. 7 PDF eBook |
Author | Piero Boitani |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 110 |
Release | 2017-12-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351199374 |
"Members of the Florentine family of the Donati feature prominently in Dante's Divine Comedy . Their presence is explored by Piero Boitani, as a 'comedy' within the Comedy, in close readings of the three major episodes in which they appear, one for each of Inferno , Purgatorio , and Paradiso ."
The Cambridge Companion to Dante
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Dante PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Jacoff |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2007-02-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521844304 |
A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.
Dante's Lyric Poems
Title | Dante's Lyric Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Dante Alighieri |
Publisher | Legas / Gaetano Cipolla |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1881901181 |
Dante's Aesthetics of Being
Title | Dante's Aesthetics of Being PDF eBook |
Author | Warren Ginsberg |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780472109715 |
Explores the domain of the aesthetic in Dante
Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective
Title | Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Sherberg |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 148750747X |
This compilation of eleven essays offers exciting new perspectives on one of the greatest works of Italian literature.