Leading scholar Albert Russell Ascoli traces the metamorphosis of
Dante Alighieri - minor Florentine aristocrat, political activist
and exile, amateur philosopher and theologian, and daring
experimental poet - into Dante, author of the Divine Comedy and
perhaps the most self-consciously 'authoritative' cultural figure
in the Western canon. The text offers a comprehensive introduction
to Dante's evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas
of authorship and authority from the early Vita Nuova through the
unfinished treatises, The Banquet and On Vernacular Eloquence, to
the works of his maturity, Monarchy and the Divine Comedy. Ascoli
reveals how Dante anticipates modern notions of personalized,
creative authorship and the phenomenon of 'Renaissance
self-fashioning'. Unusually, the book examines Dante's career as a
whole offering an important point of access not only to the Dantean
oeuvre, but also to the history and theory of authorship in the
larger Italian and European tradition.
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