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An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine ComedyFor 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.

Dante Alighieri, --- To 1500 --- Ages of Man. --- Allegory. --- Antonio. --- Apotheosis. --- Arnaut Daniel. --- Assonance. --- Averroes. --- Awareness. --- Belfagor. --- Benedetta. --- Brunetto Latini. --- Cacciaguida. --- Canzone. --- Cato the Elder. --- Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti. --- Cavalcanti. --- Conradin. --- Consequentialism. --- Consummation. --- Conti. --- Converso. --- Convivio. --- Cowardice. --- Dante Alighieri. --- De vulgari eloquentia. --- Desiderio. --- Disputation. --- Divine Comedy. --- Dolce Stil Novo. --- Donation of Constantine. --- Edmund Garratt Gardner. --- Eloquence. --- Equanimity. --- Erudition. --- Excursus. --- Farinata degli Uberti. --- Figure of speech. --- Filial piety. --- Flattery. --- Friar. --- G. (novel). --- Giacomo da Lentini. --- Giovanni Boccaccio. --- Giovanni Villani. --- Giovinezza. --- Gregorius. --- Guelphs and Ghibellines. --- Guido Cavalcanti. --- Guido delle Colonne. --- Hyperbole. --- Immanence. --- Inception. --- Incorruptibility. --- Irony. --- Jean de Meun. --- Judas Iscariot. --- La Vita Nuova. --- Lambertini. --- Liber de Causis. --- Lippi. --- Literature. --- Lyric poetry. --- Magnanimity. --- Massimo. --- Medieval Latin. --- Metonymy. --- Misericordia. --- Moralia. --- Nobility. --- Nominalism. --- Parody. --- Peter Damian. --- Petrarch. --- Piety. --- Pity. --- Poetry. --- Purgatorio. --- Roland Barthes. --- Scholasticism. --- Semiotics. --- Seriousness. --- Slavery. --- Solipsism. --- Sophistication. --- Sordello. --- Spirituality. --- Stefano. --- Søren Kierkegaard. --- Terence. --- The Counterfeiters (novel). --- The Most Excellent. --- The Other Hand. --- To Be a Pilgrim. --- Trial by combat. --- Umberto Eco. --- Unam sanctam. --- Vanni Fucci. --- Virtuous pagan. --- Vittorio. --- Vox Clamantis.