Dante's tears
Subtitle: the poetics of weeping from Vita nuova to the Commedia
By: Rossana Fenu Barbera
Series: Biblioteca dell'"Archivum Romanicum." Serie I: Storia, letteratura, paleografia -- 468; Biblioteca dell'"Archivum Romanicum." -- v. 468.
Publisher: Leo S. Olschki editore
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Firenze
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9788822265067
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Crying in literature; Weinen; Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri); Vita nuova (Dante Alighieri)
Description: "Dante's Tears proves a poetics of weeping relevant to Dante's poetry in coincidence with his theological interests celebrated in the Commedia, and seeded in Vita Nuova. It reveals an untold story of Dante and Beatrice, and allows a new code of communication, the key of a hermeneutics of Dante's text that embraces as a whole religion, politics, physiology, and the poet's own concerns on matters such as desire and love."--Front flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-201) and index.

In English; Dante's text appears in Italian with English translation.