[PDF] Dantes Tenzone With Forese Donati eBook

Author : Fabian Alfie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2011-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442693479

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‘And by now, mind, it’s too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.’ Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty and thievery. But in his Commedia, rather than denying this correspondence, Dante repeatedly acknowledged and evoked the memory of his youthful put-downs. Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati examines the lasting impact of these sonnets on Dante's writings and Italian literary culture, notably in the work of Giovanni Boccaccio. Fabian Alfie expands on derision as an ethical dimension of medieval literature, both facilitating the reprehension of vice and encouraging ongoing debates about the true nature of nobility. Outlining a broad perspective on the uses of literary insult, Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati also provides an evocative glimpse of Dante's day-to-day life in the twelfth century.

Author : Fabian Alfie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1442642238

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'And by now, mind, it's too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.' Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty and thievery. But in his Commedia, rather than denying this correspondence, Dante repeatedly acknowledged and evoked the memory of his youthful put-downs. Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati examines the lasting impact of these sonnets on Dante's writings and Italian literary culture, notably in the work of Giovanni Boccaccio. Fabian Alfie expands on derision as an ethical dimension of medieval literature, both facilitating the reprehension of vice and encouraging ongoing debates about the true nature of nobility. Outlining a broad perspective on the uses of literary insult, Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati also provides an evocative glimpse of Dante's day-to-day life in the twelfth century.

Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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Members of the Florentine family of the Donati feature prominently in Dante's Divine Comedy . Their presence is explored by Piero Boitani, as a 'comedy' within the Comedy, in close readings of the three major episodes in which they appear, one for each of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso .

Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,50 MB
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351199374

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"Members of the Florentine family of the Donati feature prominently in Dante's Divine Comedy . Their presence is explored by Piero Boitani, as a 'comedy' within the Comedy, in close readings of the three major episodes in which they appear, one for each of Inferno , Purgatorio , and Paradiso ."

Author : Michael Sherberg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1487536321

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This volume, part of the Lectura Boccaccii series organized by the American Boccaccio Association, offers close readings by top scholars of Day Four of the Decameron. As fans of the Decameron know, the Fourth Day opens with an important intervention in which the author defends his project against his critics, which coincides with a significant change in tone as the subject matter turns to stories with unhappy endings. The contributors approach the stories from a variety of perspectives, including the linguistic, philosophical, anthropological, and literary historical. These fresh readings of stories that are nearly seven hundred years old testify to the enduring power of Boccaccio’s masterpiece to speak to new audiences and to find compelling relevance even at a great distance from its immediate medieval context.

Author : Rachel Jacoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521844304

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

Author : Richard Lansing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2067 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1136849718

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Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy. The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia: brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid prose provides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looking at title and form, moral structure, allegory and realism, manuscript tradition, and also taking account of the various editions of the work over the centuries contains numerous entries on Dante's other important writings and on the major subjects covered within them addresses connections between Dante and philosophy, theology, poetics, art, psychology, science, and music as well as critical perspective across the ages, from Dante's first critics to the present.

Author : Zygmunt G. Barański
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108421296

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Accessible and informative account of Dante's great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.