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From: Reference & Research Book News
Date: 20071101
Author:
9780631228523
Dante.
Havely, Nick.
Blackwell Publishing
2007
292 pages
$84.95
Hardcover
Blackwell guides to literature
PQ4335
Havely (medieval literature, York U.) offers a guide for students who are about to embark on a study of Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) in English. He covers his life and career in Florence and in exile; the texts and cultural traditions that influenced him; key themes, episodes, and passages, especially in the Commedia; and his work's reception by later readers, especially within the English-speaking ...
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