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Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange : Authorship, Manuscript Culture, and the Making of the 'Vita Nova' /

"Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange is the first book-length study to explore the question of poetry and genre in Dante's Vita Nova (ca. 1292-1294). In paying particular attention to complex and multifaceted interactions between different cultures in Italy in the thirteenth century...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Todorović, Jelena (Professor of Italian literature) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Dante and the medieval theory of authorship
  • 1. Quello non conosciuto da molti libro di Boezio: De consolatione philosophiae and its role in the making of the Vita Nova
  • 2. Dante the scribe and Dante the commentator I: Medieval Latin book and the Vita Nova
  • 3. Dante the scribe and Dante the commentator II: The Vita Nova and the Old Occitan poetry collections
  • 4. Dante the scribe and Dante the compiler: Redefining Italian vernacular literary and scribal matrices in the Vita Nova
  • Epilogue.