1st Edition

Dante's Second Love The Originality and the Contexts of the Convivio

By Peter Dronke Copyright 1997

    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.

    I: From Beatrice to The Donna Gentile; II: The Donna Gentile: Obscuris Vera Involvens; III: ‘Ethics and Aesthetics are One’; Excursus The ‘Rejection’ of the Donna Gentile

    Biography

    Peter Dronke