In this book, Peter Dronke illustrates how medieval Latin traditions can help us to understand Dante's great poem 'The Divine Comedy'. He first discusses medieval conceptions of allegory and vision, image and metaphor, symbol and myth, as well as some of Dante's own insights into the nature of poetic meaning. Later chapters relate particular moments in the Comedy - the giants in Inferno, the apocalyptic showings in Purgatorio, and the solar heaven in Paradiso - to Dante's Latin inheritance. All quotations from Italian are accompanied by English translations.
- ISBN13 9780521321525
- Publish Date 27 February 1986
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 11 September 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cambridge University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 166
- Language English