The Cambridge Companion to Dante

A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.

Rachel Jacoff (Edited by)

9780521605816, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 15 February 2007

338 pages
22.9 x 15 x 2 cm, 0.5 kg

This 2007 second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Dante is designed to provide an accessible introduction to Dante for students, teachers and general readers. The volume was fully updated and includes three new essays on Dante's works. The suggestions for further reading now include secondary works and translations as well as online resources. The essays cover Dante's early works and their relation to the Commedia, his literary antecedents, both vernacular and classical, biblical and theological influences, the historical and political dimensions of Dante's works, and their reception. In addition there are introductory essays to each of the three canticles of the Commedia that analyse their themes and style. This edition will ensure that the Companion continues to be the most useful single volume for new generations of students of Dante.

Preface
Chronology
1. Life of Dante Giuseppe Mazzotta
2. Dante and the lyric past Teodolina Barolini
3. Approaching the Vita nuova Robert Pogue Harrison
4. From auctor to author: Dante before the Commedia Albert Russell Ascoli
5. Introduction to Inferno Lino Pertile
6. Introduction to Purgatorio Jeffrey T. Schnapp
7. 'Shadowy prefaces': introduction to Paradiso Rachel Jacoff
8. Dante and the Bible Peter S. Hawkins
9. Dante and the classical poets Kevin Brownlee
10. Allegory and autobiography John Freccero
11. A poetics of chaos and harmony Joan Ferrante
12. The theology of the Commedia A. N. Williams
13. The poetry and poetics of the creation Piero Boitani
14. Dante and Florence John M. Najemy
15. Dante and the empire Charles Till Davis
16. Dante and his commentators Robert Hollander
17. Dante in English David Wallace
Further reading.

Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]