This is the first new biography in English for nearly eighty years of Italy's foremost writer and thinker, and weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works. Dante is an intensely philosophical writer as well as a socio-political one, and both these intimately connected aspects are kept constantly in view in this extensive discussion of his writings. As well as his masterpiece the "Divina Commedia", his other works are also given considerable attention. The aim is to make an account of Dante's life accessible to students and to the curious and intelligent but non-specialist reader. All quotations are fully translated. This new edition has been fully revised and updated, including an updated bibliography.
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'clear, accurate, judicious, and... highly readable...[It] deserves to become recommended reading for undergraduates, especially those approaching Dante for the first time.' --Modern Languages Review<br /><br />'Bemrose does a fine job... This book fulfils an important need for students and their teachers by placing in historical context Dante's works and what we know or can surmise of his life.' --Speculum<br /><br />'[The reader] will be able to turn to Dante's works with an enhanced understanding of the period in which they were written and of the poet who wrote them.' --Italian Studies<br /><br />'Bemrose does a fine job... This book fulfils an important need for students and their teachers by placing in historical context Dante's works and what we know or can surmise of his life.' --Speculum<br /><br />'[The reader] will be able to turn to Dante's works with an enhanced understanding of the period in which they were written and of the poet who wrote them.' --Italian Studies
'Bemrose does a fine job... This book fulfils an important need for students and their teachers by placing in historical context Dante's works and what we know or can surmise of his life.' --Speculum
'[The reader] will be able to turn to Dante's works with an enhanced understanding of the period in which they were written and of the poet who wrote them.' --Italian Studies
'Bemrose does a fine job... This book fulfils an important need for students and their teachers by placing in historical context Dante's works and what we know or can surmise of his life.' --Speculum
'[The reader] will be able to turn to Dante's works with an enhanced understanding of the period in which they were written and of the poet who wrote them.' --Italian Studies
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Until his recent retirement, Stephen Bemrose taught courses on Dante for over 20 years at Exeter University, where he was Lecturer in Italian.
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There is little known about Dante Alighieri. And yet the profundity of his work and the extent of his influence cannot be understated. Having enjoyed the Divine Comedy (in English translation) as one of the finest works of literature I have read, I delighted in reading this account of Dante's life.
This book is written as a literary and a political life, literature and politics being the essence of the man. As the reader gets to know Dante, he/she also gets to know his work.
The pleasure in reading this book is heightened by the engaging and interesting style in which it is written.
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This book outlines Dante's life, as one would expect of a biography, but also helps put it in context by explaining something of the political world in which he moved. It also has commentary on the Divine Comedy, which I am reading together with a book containing only commentary and the work itself as part of my Great Courses reading of the work. I am finally appreciating the Comedy, which I got nothing out of the first time I read it because I had no explanation of who the people were that he met up with in his journey from Hell to Paradise.
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