ABSTRACT
First published in 1995. The Critical Heritage series collects together a large body of criticism on major figures in literature. Each volume presents the contemporary responses to a particular writer, enabling the student to follow the formation of critical attitudes to the writer's work and its place within a literary tradition. This collection of critical writings about Dante, many of them published here in English for the first time, tries to offer a balanced survey of the poet's reception in both time and space. Its scope therefore differs from that of its main predecessors in both English and Italian.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |88 pages
Introduction
chapter |4 pages
Jacopo della Lana, commentary on Purgatory XXXII, 109–41
Between 1323 and 1328, or 1327 and 1333
chapter |9 pages
Guido da Pisa, Prologue to his commentary on the Inferno
1327–8, or 1328–33, or 1343–50
chapter |4 pages
Filippo Villani, on the life and customs of the distinguished comic poet Dante
1395–7
chapter |13 pages
Pietro Bembo, the models for literary Italian are Petrarch and Boccaccio, not Dante
1525
chapter |10 pages
Niccolo Machiavelli (attr.), Dante's hatred of Florence set against the‘Florentinity' of his language
Between 1514 and 1525
chapter |2 pages
Bellisario Bulgarini, the unsuitability in poetry of Dante's treatment of matters of art and science
1576 [1583]
chapter |4 pages
Tommaso Campanella, Dante teaches in a popular fashion, and is not confined by rules
1596
chapter |4 pages
Nicola Villani/Federigo Ubaldini, vehicle and tenor in a Dantean simile
1631/before 1657
chapter |4 pages
Gabriello Chiabrera, the need to go beyond the metrical models left by Dante and Petrarch in love poetry
Before 1638
chapter |10 pages
Giambattista Vico, Dante's‘barbarousness'; three reasons for reading him
1725,1728–9
chapter |3 pages
Charles De Brosses, cannot understand the Italian preference for Dante over Ariosto
1740
chapter |3 pages
Antonio Conti, exaltation of Dante's poem for the wealth and seriousness of its meaning
Before 1749
chapter |3 pages
G. W.F. Hegel, the Divine Comedy as the artistic epic proper of the Christian Catholic Middle Ages
Late 1820s
chapter |4 pages
Etienne-Jean Delecluze, Dante's poems, Platonic love, and the experimental method
1848