Aids to the study of Dante
By: by Charles Allen Dinsmore.
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin
Published: 1903
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
Subjects: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Biography and criticism
Table of contents: title: 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 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 Aquina.  [Selections tr. from the Summa theologica]  Scartazzini, G.A. Beatrice.  Dinsmore, C.A.  The Paradiso.- 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.