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Subtitle: Dante in Shakespeare
By: Vivienne Robertson
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Ltd
Published: 2019
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781925801781
Subjects: Sources; Influence; Knowledge; Literature; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri)
Description: "Readers of Dante and Shakespeare have commented through the last two centuries on the parallels between the two writers, but English literary experts have never allowed the claim that Shakespeare may have read Dante. Their reason was always that Dante was not translated in Shakespeare's time and Shakespeare could not read Italian." -- back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.