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Dante: Convivio
A Dual-Language Critical Edition
Author: Alighieri Dante
This up-to-date and engaging translation of Dante's Convivio makes this important text accessible to scholars and students.
Language: English
Dante: Convivio
Publication date: 01-2022
728 p. · 15.3x22.9 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 01-2022
728 p. · 15.3x22.9 cm · Paperback
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Dante: Convivio
Publication date: 12-2017
726 p. · 16.1x23.5 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 12-2017
726 p. · 16.1x23.5 cm · Hardback
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Dante's Convivio, composed in exile between 1304 and 1307, is a series of self-commentaries on three of Dante's long poems. These allegorical love poems and philosophical verse become the basis for philosophical, literary, moral, and political exposition. The prose is written in Italian so that those who were not educated in Latin could take part in what Dante called his 'banquet of knowledge'. In this edition, eminent Dante translator-scholar Andrew Frisardi offers the first fully annotated translation of the work into English, with an extensive introduction, making Dante's often complex writings accessible to scholars and students. The parallel Italian text is also included for the first time in an English translation of the Convivio. Readers of this work can gain a strong understanding of the philosophical themes across Dante's work, including the Divine Comedy, as well as the logic, politics and science of his time.
Translator's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the Convivio: a portrait; Dante and Lady Philosophia-Sapientia; Dante's quest for knowledge; Dante and nobility; Convivio: Book I; Book II; Book III; Book IV; Appendix: prose translations of the 'Three Canzoni'; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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