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Aids to the study of Dante,

Author: Charles Allen Dinsmore; R W Church; Edmund Garratt Gardner; Adolfo Gaspary; James Russell Lowell; All authors
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Dante Alighieri; Dante Alighieri; Dante Alighieri
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Charles Allen Dinsmore; R W Church; Edmund Garratt Gardner; Adolfo Gaspary; James Russell Lowell; Charles Eliot Norton; Philip Henry Wicksteed; Leonardo Bruni; Giovanni Boccaccio; Dante Alighieri
OCLC Number: 878934
Notes: --VII. Interpretation: Church, R.W. The character, purpose, and poetic qualities of the Divina commedia. Gaspary, A. The poetry of the Inferno. Lowell, J.R. The Divina commedia the embodiment of the Christian idea of a triumphant life.
Description: xiv p., 1 l., 435, [1] p. front., illus., plates, ports., charts. 21 cm.
Contents: I. The times of Dante: Church, R.W. Florentine political feuds and their influence upon Dante. Norton, C.E. The intellectual and moral awakening of Italy.--II. Sources of our knowledge of Dante: Giovanni Villani, Boccaccio, Filippo Villani, Lionardo Bruni. Norton, C.E. What is definitely known on Dante's life.--III. Dante's personal appearance: Norton, C.E. Portraits and masks.--IV. The Vita nuova: Dinsmore, C.A. Lyrical poetry before the time of Dante. Gaspary, A. The meaning and character of the Vita nuova. Norton, C.E. On the structure of the Vita nuova.--V. Minor works: Norton, Bryce, Saintsbury, Scartazzini, Dinsmore.--VI. The Divina commedia: Longfellow, Gardner, Federn. Witte, K. Dante's cosmography. Wicksteed, P.H. The chronology of the Divina commedia. Dante's letter to Can Grande [text] Gardner, E.C. The moral topography of the Inferno. Comparetti, D. The nature of Vergil in the Divina commedia. Gardner, E.G. Structure and moral significance of Purgatory. Thomas Aquinas. [Selections tr. from the Summa theologica] Scartazzini, G.A. Beatrice. Dinsmore, C.A. The Paradiso.
Responsibility: by Charles Allen Dinsmore.

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