Dante's Italy, and other essays
By: Charles T. Davis.
Series: The Middle ages
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Political and social views.; Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Knowledge -- History.; Florence (Italy) -- History -- To 1421.; Florence (Italy) -- Intellectual life.; Italy -- History -- 476-1492.; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [300]-326.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Dante's Italy; title: Dante's vision of history; title: Poverty and eschatology in the Commedia; title: Il buon tempo antico (The good old time); title: The Malispini question; title: Education in Dante's Florence; title: Brunetto Latini and Dante; title: An early Florentine political theorist, Fra Remigio de' Girolami; title: Roman patriotism and Republican propaganda : Ptolemy of Lucca and Pope Nicholas III; title: Ptolemy of Lucca and the Roman Republic; title: Appendix : Recent work on the Malispini question.