Martin Eisner's monograph marks a much-awaited breakthrough in the history of Dante Studies. It is the first full-length study to attempt and succeed at reconciling and transnational comparativism in Reception Studies...Dante's New Life of the Book sets a whole new course for the field demonstrating that the synergy between textual, book-historical, and reception studies illuminates the darkest corners in the history of a work's 'continued survival' across time, editorial formats, and world literatures.
Martin Eisner is Professor of Italian and Chair of Romance Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature (Cambridge, 2013) and Boccaccio: A Life in Books (Reaktion Books, forthcoming).