For all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy,
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) remains the best guide to his own life and
work. Dante's writings are therefore never far away in this
authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography, which offers a
fresh account of the medieval Florentine poet's life and thought before
and after his exile in 1302.
Beginning with the often violent
circumstances of Dante's life, the book examines his successive works as
testimony to the course of his passionate humanity: his lyric poetry
through to the Vita nova as the great work of his first period; the Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia and the poems of his early years in exile; and the Monarchia and the Commedia
as the product of his maturity. Describing as it does a journey of the
mind, the book confirms the nature of Dante's undertaking as an
exploration of what he himself speaks of as "maturity in the flame of
love."
The result is an original synthesis of Dante's life and work.
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