Description: "Rather than speak of Dante's 'minor works,' according to an age-old 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."--Back cove
Brief description:
Zygmunt G. Barański is Emeritus R. L. Canala Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures with the University of Notre Dame and the Serena Professor of Italian Emeritus with the University of Cambridge. His many publications include Dante's "Vita Nova" (co-edited with Heather Webb).
Review Quotes:
"Dante's "Other Works" is a wonderful exposition on the complexity of Europe's greatest poet, the poet of Christendom but also a poet of the universal and syncretic. . . . Any lover of Dante would do well to pick up this volume." --VoegelinView