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Dante and His Circle (Paperback)
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Dante and His Circle (Paperback)
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Loot Price R239
Discovery Miles 2 390
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As a young poet, Dante Alighieri was at the center of a new
attitude sweeping through Italy and southern France. Poets and
artists were awakening from a thousand-year yoke we now call the
Middle Ages. Giotto showed the way in art by painting real people
in his allegorical scenes; Dante used vernacular or street language
to write down his actual feelings. And a new subject drove these
and other passionate artists: Love. Who were the poets of Dante's
circle? This edition of Dante and His Circle is based upon an
imaginative recreation of a cultural and intellectual ferment at
the birth of a national literature. Dante Gabriel Rossetti brought
together poetry of the friends and antagonists of Dante-in
particular the poems of the flamboyant Guido Cavalcanti, the staid
Cino da Pistoia, and the outrageous Cecco Angiolieri, with many
others-and including the curious work of the youthful Dante called
the Vita Nuova (The New Life, or My Young Life; available
separately), which itself is the subject of comments by Dante's
poetic friends. Dante's putative subject is Beatrice/Love-but the
Vita Nuova is really an exercise in poetry: Dante sets the
emotional scene for a poem, then he writes the poem, then he
explains the poem's structure, part by part. Dante himself later
became uncomfortable with this work of youth, but he did not disown
it. This selected edition of Dante and His Circle concentrates on
the eternal theme of Love, leaving aside poems relating to the wars
and politics of the time. Love as a subject of serious public
discussion signaled the emerging Renaissance, not just a
rediscovery of the glories of ancient Greece and Rome, but a new
sensibility finding-no-building a platform for personal expression
and interchange. Besides the Vita Nuova, Rossetti arranged some
poetic exchanges between Dante and Guido Cavalcanti. The Vita Nuova
is also available as a stand-alone volume
(www.createspace.com/3683218). The woman's perspective on love may
have best been told by Sappho (www.createspace.com/4185675), who
invented lyric poetry - and what we now know as the guitar pick
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