Dante: The Critical HeritageMichael Caesar Annotation The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves. |
Contents
selfexegesis and opposition | 1 |
Petrarch | 11 |
The six early commentaries on the opening lines | 12 |
the first | 13 |
Dantes fortunes abroad particularly in Spain | 15 |
Pietro Bembo and the question of the language | 23 |
Dantes reception abroad in the sixteenth century | 29 |
The CounterReformation and the definition of Christian | 34 |
JOHN DRYDEN Dantes restoration of a silver age 1684 | 330 |
LODOVICO ANTONIO MURATORI Dantes lyric poetry | 336 |
PIETRO CALEPIO Volpis edition of the Comedy 1730 | 356 |
FRANÇOISMARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE Dantes hotch | 374 |
GIUSEPPE BARETTI resoluteness and patience needed to read | 394 |
FRIEDRICH SCHELLING Dante in relation to philosophy | 409 |
FRANCESCO TORTI Dantes modernity his unique genius 1806 | 427 |
MME DE STAËL Corinnes celebration of Dante 1807 | 433 |
England Germany France Neoclassicism and Arcadia | 40 |
the limitations of | 46 |
England 1818 and after | 52 |
Dante in France and Germany | 60 |
The popularity of Dante 2 Nineteenthcentury transla | 68 |
52 | 77 |
The popularity of Dante 3 The sixth centenary 1865 | 77 |
DANTE ALIGHIERI letter to Cangrande della Scala 1314 | 89 |
GIOVANNI DEL VIRGILIO epistle to Dante 1319 or first half | 104 |
FRA GUIDO VERNANI censure of Dantes Monarchia | 110 |
Graziolo de bambaglioli Proem to his commentary | 116 |
GUIDO DA PISA Prologue to his commentary on | 122 |
FRANCESCO PETRARCA letter to Boccaccio 1359 | 151 |
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO commentary on Inferno X 5272 | 167 |
FILIPPO VILLANI on the life and customs of the distin | 182 |
FRANCISCO IMPERIAL the seven virtues c 1400 | 196 |
ALAIN CHARTIER the Donation of Constantine after 1428 | 200 |
ST ANTONINUS the Florentine poet Dante and his errors | 222 |
NICCOLO Machiavelli attr Dantes hatred of Florence | 240 |
ANON Dante and the jester c 1540 | 249 |
GIOVAN BATTISTA GELLI lectures on Dante 155363 | 259 |
GIOVANNI DELLA CASA Dantes bad example 1558 1576 | 267 |
PIER PAOLO VERGERIO description of the Monarchia 1559 | 273 |
ETIENNE PASQUIER Dantes slur on the royal house | 276 |
JACOPO MAZZONI the genre to which the Divine Comedy | 289 |
VINCENZO BORGHINI reading Dantes allegory compari | 294 |
GALILEO GALILEI the shape of Dantes hell 15878 | 301 |
TRAIANO BOCCALINI Dante manhandled by the pedants | 311 |
SI NICOLA VILLanifederigo UBALDINI vehicle and tenor in | 317 |
JOHN MILTON the love poetry of Dante and Petrarch | 323 |
RENÉ RAPIN Dante too tepid too obscure too immodest | 328 |
WILLIAM HAZLITT Dante as selfwill personified 1815 | 435 |
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE lecture on Dante 1818 | 439 |
UGO FOSCOLO two articles on Dante 1818 | 447 |
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK Dante becoming fashionable 1818 | 464 |
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Defence of Poetry 1821 | 466 |
Vita Nuova Convivio Divina Commedia 182331 | 471 |
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Dante and Milton 1825 | 478 |
UGO FOSCOLO Dantes religious mission Dante the sole protagonist of his poem 1825 | 483 |
CARLO TROYA Dantes allegorical greyhound 1826 | 489 |
G W F HEGEL the Divine Comedy as the artistic epic proper of the Christian Catholic Middle Ages late | 495 |
GIOVITA SCALVINI Dante and real life 1818?1830s | 497 |
GABRIELE ROSSETTI Dantes secret language 1832 | 501 |
ANTOINE FREderic ozanam Dante and Catholic philoso phy 1839 | 515 |
CESARE BALBO Dantes life and works 1839 | 524 |
THOMAS CARLYLE Dante as poethero 1840 530 | 541 |
VINCENZO GIOBERTI Dante the Catholic poet 1841 1843 | 542 |
LEIGH HUNT Dantes nightmare imagination 1844 | 547 |
GIUSEPPE MAZZINI Dante in history Beatrice the na tional aim 1844 | 552 |
MARGARET FULLER translating Dante and teaching him 1845 | 561 |
ETIENNEJEAN DELECLUZE Dantes poems Platonic love and the experimental method 1848 | 568 |
JULIAN KLACZKO against anachronistic readings of Dante 1854 | 568 |
A SAINTEBEUVE the central role of Beatrice 1854 | 572 |
IOI FRANCESCO DE SANCTIS Pier delle Vigne 1855 | 577 |
JOHN RUSKIN Dante and medieval landscape 1856 | 595 |
MATTHEW ARNOLD Dante and Beatrice 1863 | 606 |
La Festa di Dante Il Giornale del Centenario H C BARLOW | 615 |
IOS FRANCESCO DE SANCTIS the achievement of the Divine | 625 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 638 |
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Passages from the DIVINE COMEDY OF WHICH | 656 |
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