1st Edition
Dante's Second Love The Originality and the Contexts of the Convivio
By Peter Dronke
Copyright 1997
84 Pages
by
Routledge
82 Pages
by
Routledge
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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