Dante: Convivio
A Dual-Language Critical Edition

This up-to-date and engaging translation of Dante's Convivio makes this important text accessible to scholars and students.

Dante Alighieri (Author), Andrew Frisardi (Edited and translated by)

9781107139367, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 December 2017

726 pages, 6 b/w illus.
23.5 x 16.1 x 3.5 cm, 1.28 kg

'I welcome this book as one of the finest heralds of an upcoming, new phase in the life of Dante's Convivio.' Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Temenos Academy Review

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.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB], Literary essays [DNF]