Cambridge Readings in Dante's Comedy

The contributors aimed at producing a well-rounded volume that illustrates many facets of Dante's complex art.

Kenelm Foster (Edited by), Patrick Boyde (Edited by)

9780521155205, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 April 2011

224 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.34 kg

Originally published in 1981, the ten essays in this collection were originally delivered as public Lecturae Dantis in the University of Cambridge. As far as possible the contributors have preserved the form of the original lectures, which combined elements of the running commentary and the critical essay. Each reading is devoted to a single canto of the Comedy, and the text of that canto has been broken down into manageable units. The authors provide information about background and context and elucidate obscurities or difficult allusions, but their primary concern has been to give a connected critical account of Dante's style, thought, narrative technique, imagery and symbolism in the given canto. The editors have aimed at producing a well-rounded volume that would illustrate as many facets as possible of Dante's complex art.

Contributors
Preface
1. Inferno XIII Patrick Boyde
2. Inferno XXV Robin Kirkpatrick
3. Inferno XXVII Judith Davies
4. Inferno XXXIII Oiero Boitani
5. Purgatorio III Philip McNair
6. Purgatorio XXIX Peter Dronke
7. Purgatorio XXXII Kenelm Foster
8. Paradiso XVII Uberto Limentani
9. Paradiso XXVI Joseph Cremona
10. Paradiso XXX Prudence Shaw.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Poetry anthologies [various poets DCQ]