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. Barański,
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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