![]() ![]() This is my most annotated and well-loved book on Dante.Įdited by Rachel Jacoff, The Cambridge Companion to Dante is a series of essays by several renowned contemporary dantisti who give their scholarly take on everything from Dante and the Bible to the poet’s relationship to classical colleagues, the empire, Florence and the vernacular, as well as short introductions to Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. She keeps the chapters short and the writing extremely sharp, a merciful move on her part as the book is filled with insight and information that would have been lost in a different format. Reynolds leads the reader in a dance through the poet’s biography, his lesser-known works and, of course, through the Comedy. The result - Dante: The Poet, the Thinker, the Man - is wondrous, whether you agree with her assessments or not. ![]() Towards the end of her long academic career as one of the world’s premier Dante scholars, Barbara Reynolds wrote what she called a “portrait” of Dante, filled with self-proclaimed radical and controversial ideas. Taking themes like autobiography, truth, humanity, politics and God, the authors provide a concise foundation for approaching a reading of Dante. Dante Alighieri, detail from Luca Signorelli’s fresco in the Chapel of San Brizio, Orvieto CathedralĪt 115 little pages, Dante: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Hainsworth and David Robey is the perfect place to start for a basic but thorough introduction to a very complex figure and his works. ![]()
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