Around the turn of the nineteenth century, no task seemed more urgent to German Romantics than the creation of a new mythology. It would unite modern poets and grant them common ground, and bring philosophers and the Volk closer together. But what would a new mythology look like? Only one model sufficed, according to Friedrich Schlegel: Dante's Divine Comedy. Through reading and juxtaposing canonical and obscure texts, Dante in Deutschland shows how Dante's work shaped the development of German...
Features a collection of poetry, translated from the Italian by Brian Cole. This title shows that mother and daughter share knowledge through the ambiguous language of poetry. The intellect of the daughter is at work in decoding her mother's mysterious utterances, triggered by the disease as a machine.
Interpreting Dante (William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature)
In Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary, Paola Nasti and Claudia Rossignoli gather essays by prominent scholars of the Dante commentary tradition to discuss the significance of this tradition for the study of the Comedy, its broad impact on the history of ideas, and its contribution to the development of literary criticism. Interest in the Dante commentary tradition has grown considerably in recent years, but projects on this subject tend to focus on philological rec...
Notturno (Margellos World Republic of Letters Book) (World Republic of Letters (Yale))
by Gabriele D'Annunzio
The first complete English translation of D'Annunzio's haunting book-length prose poem Composed during a period of extended bed rest, Gabriele D'Annunzio's Notturno is a moving prose poem in which imagination, experience, and remembrance intertwine. The somber atmosphere of the poem reflects the circumstances of its creation. With his vision threatened and his eyes completely bandaged, D'Annunzio suffered months of near-total blindness and pain-wracked infirmity in 1921, and yet he managed to wr...
Storia Della Letteratura Italiana, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)
by Adolfo Bartoli
From the Unreached Let Perception Radiate (Italian Literature) (ITA Italian Literature)
by Domingo Notaro
Domingo Notaro's poems struggle to fix an innocent gaze on a contemporary world that appears more and more fraught with inhumanity and cruelty. They explore themes of exile, fertility, the human body's connection to the wider cosmos, and the corrupting influence of power. Often literally scattered across the page, the poems compel the reader to become an active participant in a quest for sense and meaning. "Halfway between lucid vision and prophetic hallucination, Notaro's poems seem to lean ove...
Petrarch and St. Augustine (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, #210)
by Alexander Lee
Despite the high regard in which Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) held St. Augustine, scholars have been inclined to view Augustine's impact on the content of Petrarch's thought rather lightly. Wedded to the ancient classics, and prioritising literary imitation over intellectual coherence, Petrarch is commonly thought to have made inconsistent use of St. Augustine's works. Adopting an entirely fresh approach, however, this book argues that Augustine's early writings consistently provided Petrarch wi...
Chiose alla Cantica dell'Inferno di Dante Alighieri
by Jacopo Alighieri
An extraordinary commentary on an immortal workISI Books is proud to present this exceptional new commentary on Dante's Inferno. Little known in the United States, author Nicola Fosca nonetheless stands "in the top ten of Dante commentators in the last seven centuries," according to no less an authority than world-renowned Dante scholar Robert Hollander. Fosca's commentary, published for the first time in English, will arrive as an unexpected gift--and an indispensable guide--to scholars, studen...
The Expedition of Gradasso; A Metrical Romance. Selected from the Orlando Innamorato
by Matteo Maria Boiardo
Studio Intorno al Sirventese Italiano (Classic Reprint)
by Carlo Pini