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Informationen zum Autor Michael Caesar Klappentext First published in 1995. The Critical Heritage series collects together a large body of criticism on major figures in literature. Each volume presents the contemporary responses to a particular writer, enabling the student to follow the formation of critical attitudes to the writer's work and its place within a literary tradition. This collection of critical writings about Dante, many of them published here in English for the first time, tries to offer a balanced survey of the poet's reception in both time and space. Its scope therefore differs from that of its main predecessors in both English and Italian. Zusammenfassung As part of the Critical Heritage series, this volume gathers together a body of critical sources on Dante. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Dante Alighieri, letter to Cangrande della Scala; Chapter 2 Giovanni del Virgilio, epistle to Dante; Chapter 3 Giovanni del Virgilio, epitaph intended for Dante's tomb; Chapter 4 Cecco d'Ascoli, against Dante's‘poetic’ treatment of science; Chapter 5 Fra Guido Vernani, censure of Dante's Monarchia; Chapter 6 Jacopo Alighieri, notes to the Inferno; Chapter 7 Graziolo de’ Bambaglioli, Proem to his commentary on the Inferno; Chapter 8 Jacopo della Lana, commentary on Purgatory XXXII, 109–41; Chapter 9 Guido da Pisa, Prologue to his commentary on the Inferno; Chapter 10 L'Ottimo (Andrea Lancia), commentary on Inferno XIII, 103–8; Chapter 11 Pietro Alighieri, Dante's seven kinds of meaning; Chapter 12 The six early commentaries on the opening lines of Inferno III, the inscription above the gate of hell; Chapter 13 Giovanni Villani, Chronicle of Florence: the first biography of Dante; Chapter 14 Francesco Petrarca, letter to Boccaccio; Chapter 15 Giovanni Boccaccio, life of Dante; Chapter 16 Giovanni Boccaccio, commentary on Inferno X, 52–72; Chapter 17 Geoffrey Chaucer, Ugolino and gentillesse in The Canterbury Tales; Chapter 18 Benvenuto da Imola, Guido da Montefeltro ( Inferno XXVII, 25–30); Chapter 19 Francesco da Buti, the allegorical interpretation of Beatrice; Chapter 20 Filippo Villani, on the life and customs of the distinguished comic poet Dante; Chapter 21 Coluccio Salutati, appeal for a decent text of the Comedy; Chapter 22 Leonardo Bruni, censure and exaltation of Dante; Chapter 23 Francisco Imperial, the seven virtues; Chapter 24 Christine de Pizan, the path of long study; Chapter 25 Alain Chartier, the Donation of Constantine; Chapter 26 Leonardo Bruni, Life of Dante, and comparison with Petrarch; Chapter 27 St Antoninus, the Florentine poet Dante and his errors; Chapter 28 Marsilio Ficino, Preface to his translation of the Monarchia; Chapter 29 Cristoforo Landino, commentary to the Divine Comedy; Chapter 30 Hartmann Schedel, Chronicle of the Worl...
