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By Giuseppe Mazzotta

ISBN-10: 0300191359

ISBN-13: 9780300191356

A towering determine in global literature, Dante wrote his nice epic poem Commedia within the early fourteenth century. The paintings received common acclaim and got here to be often called La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to lifestyles during this exploration of the fellow, his cultural milieu, and his eternally interesting works.

 

Based on Mazzotta’s hugely well known Yale direction, this e-book bargains a serious analyzing of The Divine Comedy and chosen different works through Dante. via an research of Dante’s autobiographical Vita nuova, Mazzotta establishes the poetic and political situations of The Divine Comedy. He situates the 3 sections of the poem—Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise—within the highbrow and social context of the overdue heart a while, and he explores the political, philosophical, and theological topics with which Dante used to be rather concerned.

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