This collection of facsimile reprints integrates a wide range of Dante scholarship in eight thematic volumes, illuminating the cosmos of Dante and providing the knowledge of a full range of fundamental ideas, issues, events and beliefs that characterized the world view of Dante's age. No poem with the exception of the Bible has necessitated and been the recipient of more interpretive commentary than has The Divine Comedy. The identification of characters and historical events, the explanation of references and images, the citation of sources, the explication of moral concepts, the...

This collection of facsimile reprints integrates a wide range of Dante scholarship in eight thematic volumes, illuminating the cosmos of Dante and providing the knowledge of a full range of fundamental ideas, issues, events and beliefs that characterized the world view of Dante's age. No poem with the exception of the Bible has necessitated and been the recipient of more interpretive commentary than has The Divine Comedy. The identification of characters and historical events, the explanation of references and images, the citation of sources, the explication of moral concepts, the...

This collection of facsimile reprints integrates a wide range of Dante scholarship in eight thematic volumes, illuminating the cosmos of Dante and providing the knowledge of a full range of fundamental ideas, issues, events and beliefs that characterized the world view of Dante's age. No poem with the exception of the Bible has necessitated and been the recipient of more interpretive commentary than has The Divine Comedy. The identification of characters and historical events, the explanation of references and images, the citation of sources, the explication of moral concepts, the...

This collection of facsimile reprints integrates a wide range of Dante scholarship in eight thematic volumes, illuminating the cosmos of Dante and providing the knowledge of a full range of fundamental ideas, issues, events and beliefs that characterized the world view of Dante's age. No poem with the exception of the Bible has necessitated and been the recipient of more interpretive commentary than has The Divine Comedy. The identification of characters and historical events, the explanation of references and images, the citation of sources, the explication of moral concepts, the...

This collection of facsimile reprints integrates a wide range of Dante scholarship in eight thematic volumes, illuminating the cosmos of Dante and providing the knowledge of a full range of fundamental ideas, issues, events and beliefs that characterized the world view of Dante's age. No poem with the exception of the Bible has necessitated and been the recipient of more interpretive commentary than has The Divine Comedy. The identification of characters and historical events, the explanation of references and images, the citation of sources, the explication of moral concepts, the...

This collection of facsimile reprints integrates a wide range of Dante scholarship in eight thematic volumes, illuminating the cosmos of Dante and providing the knowledge of a full range of fundamental ideas, issues, events and beliefs that characterized the world view of Dante's age. No poem with the exception of the Bible has necessitated and been the recipient of more interpretive commentary than has The Divine Comedy. The identification of characters and historical events, the explanation of references and images, the citation of sources, the explication of moral concepts, the...

This is the seventh part of a collection of facsimile reprints integrates a wide range of Dante scholarship in eight thematic volumes, illuminating the cosmos of Dante and providing the knowledge of a full range of fundamental ideas, issues, events and beliefs that characterized the world view of Dante's age.

This is the final part of a collection of facsimile reprints integrates a wide range of Dante scholarship in eight thematic volumes, illuminating the cosmos of Dante and providing the knowledge of a full range of fundamental ideas, issues, events and beliefs that characterized the world view of Dante's age.

A comprehensive reference work that presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works and the cultural context in which his moral and intellectual imagination took shape. This resource brings together recent theories about Dante and his works and summarizes them in clear and vivid prose for readers who seek basic but detailed information on all major aspects of Dante scholarship. It includes entries on all the major characters in, and aspects of, the Divine Comedy. The entry on the Divine Comedy covers far more than the surface details of this masterpiece. In addition, lengthy...