Prominent Dante scholars from the United States, Italy, and the
United Kingdom contribute original essays to the first critical
companion in English to Dante's "other works." Rather than speak of
Dante's "minor works," according to a tradition of Dante
scholarship going back at least to the eighteenth century, this
volume puts forward the designation "other works" both in light of
their enhanced status and as part of a general effort to reaffirm
their value as autonomous works. Indeed, had Dante never written
the Commedia, he would still be considered the most important
writer of the late Middle Ages for the originality and
inventiveness of the other works he wrote besides his monumental
poem, including the Rime, the Fiore, the Detto d'amore, the Vita
nova, the Epistles, the Convivio, the De vulgari eloquentia, the
Monarchia, the Egloge, and the Questio de aqua et terra. Each
contributor to this volume addresses one of the "other works" by
presenting the principal interpretative trends and questions
relating to the text, and by focusing on aspects of particular
interest. Two essays on the relationship between the "other works"
and the issues of philosophy and theology are included. Dante's
"Other Works" will interest Dantisti, medievalists, and literary
scholars at every stage of their career. Contributors: Manuele
Gragnolati, Christopher Kleinhenz, Zygmunt G. Baranski, Claire E.
Honess, Simon Gilson, Mirko Tavoni, Paola Nasti, Theodore J.
Cachey, Jr., David G. Lummus, Luca Bianchi, and Vittorio
Montemaggi.
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