Dante's Second Love: The Originality and the Contexts of the Convivio

ISBN-13: 9780952590125 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 84 str.

Peter Dronke

Opis

Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile, Dante's 'second love'; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of the third and fourth treatises of the Convivio. An excursus comments on the Donna Gentile's fate at the hands of scholars.

Spis treści

I: From Beatrice to The Donna Gentile; II: The Donna Gentile: Obscuris Vera Involvens; III: ‘Ethics and Aesthetics are One’; Excursus The ‘Rejection’ of the Donna Gentile

O autorze

Peter Dronke