Dante's Second Love
Subtitle: the Originality and the Contexts of the Convivio
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781351199438
Subjects: Textual Criticism; Italian Literature; POETRY / Continental European; Convivio (Dante Alighieri)
Description: "Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile, Dante's 'second love'; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of the third and fourth treatises of the Convivio. An excursus comments on the Donna Gentile's fate at the hands of scholars."
Table of contents: title: Chapter I From Beatrice to The Donna Gentile  -- Peter Dronke; title: chapter II The Donna Gentile: Obscuris Vera Involvens  -- Peter Dronke; title: chapter III Ethics and Aesthetics are One  -- Peter Dronke; title: chapter Excursus The Rejection of the Donna Gentile -- Peter Dronke.