De Vulgari Eloquentia: Dante's Book of Exile

by Dante Alighieri, Marianne Shapiro

Overview

"A thorough overview of the very particular nature of Dante's treatise. It discusses the work as the distinctive product of the poet's exile, a universal statement on language that coincides with and complements Dante's conception of Empire. This text contains much valuable commentary." -- Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803242111
Publisher:	Nebraska
Publication date:	12/01/1990
Series:	Regents Studies in Medieval Culture Series
Pages:	277
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Marianne Shapiro, who has taught at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Hieroglyph of Time: The Petrarchan Sestina (1980) and The Poetics of Ariosto (1988).