Reading this alongside Guido Ruggiero’s The Renaissance in Italy is A+ recommended. Once again, vastly more interesting than my first exposure, where school curriculum wanted it read like it was Pilgrim’s Progress. I needed the Bondanella introduction back then to dispense with the nonsense: “Such allegorical abstractions are simply not what Dante’s great poem is all about.”
Reading updates
-
Started reading
-
Finished reading
-
2 February, 2020:
Reviewed
-
Started reading
-
Finished reading
-
2 February, 2020:
Reviewed