Dantes Other Works Assessments And Interpretations

Prominent Dante Scholars From The United States, Italy, And The United Kingdom Contribute Original Essays To The First Critical Companion In English To Dantes Other Works. Rather Than Speak Of Dantes Minor Works, According To A Tradition Of Dante Scholarship Going Back At Least To The Eighteenth Century, This Volume Puts Forward The Designation Other Works Both In Light Of Their Enhanced Status And As Part Of A General Effort To Reaffirm Their Value As Autonomous Works. Indeed, Had Dante Never Written The Commedia, He Would Still Be Considered The Most Important Writer Of The Late Middle Ages For The Originality And Inventiveness Of The Other Works He Wrote Besides His Monumental Poem, Including The Rime, The Fiore, The Detto Damore, The Vita Nova, The Epistles, The Convivio, The De Vulgari Eloquentia, The Monarchia, The Egloge, And The Questio De Aqua Et Terra.