Seven Centuries Too Late
Barbara Newman: Popes in Hell, 15 July 2021
Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy
by Guy Raffa.
Harvard, 370 pp., £28.95, May 2020,978 0 674 98083 9 Show More
by Guy Raffa.
Harvard, 370 pp., £28.95, May 2020,
Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante
by David Bowe.
Oxford, 225 pp., £60, November 2020,978 0 19 884957 5 Show More
by David Bowe.
Oxford, 225 pp., £60, November 2020,
Dante’s Christian Ethics: Purgatory and Its Moral Contexts
by George Corbett.
Cambridge, 233 pp., £75, March 2020,978 1 108 48941 6 Show More
by George Corbett.
Cambridge, 233 pp., £75, March 2020,
Why Dante Matters: An Intelligent Person’s Guide
by John Took.
Bloomsbury, 207 pp., £20, October 2020,978 1 4729 5103 8 Show More
by John Took.
Bloomsbury, 207 pp., £20, October 2020,
Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Literature, Doctrine, Reality
by Zygmunt Barański.
Legenda, 658 pp., £75, February 2020,978 1 78188 879 7 Show More
by Zygmunt Barański.
Legenda, 658 pp., £75, February 2020,
“... such as Guido Cavalcanti, each vying to surpass his peers in formal intricacy and praise of his lady. Their poetics required a donna angelicata, often more symbol than person. As a pretext for the poet’s introspection and romantic projections, the lady could signify anything from divine wisdom to poetic glory; she ... ”