Dante's Other Works

<p><b>Prominent Dante scholars from the United States Italy and the United Kingdom contribute original essays to the first critical companion in English to Dante's other works.</b></p><p>Rather than speak of Dante's 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 <i>Commedia</i> 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 <i>Rime</i> the <i>Fiore</i> the <i>Detto d'amore</i> the <i>Vita nova</i> the <i>Epistles</i> the <i>Convivio</i> the <i>De vulgari eloquentia</i> the <i>Monarchia</i> the <i>Egloge</i> and the <i>Questio de aqua et terra</i>. Each contributor to this volume addresses one of the other works by presenting the principal interpretative trends and questions relating to the text and by focusing on aspects of particular interest. Two essays on the relationship between the other works and the issues of philosophy and theology are included. <i>Dante's Other Works</i> will interest Dantisti medievalists and literary scholars at every stage of their career.</p><p>Contributors: Manuele Gragnolati Christopher Kleinhenz Zygmunt G. Barański Claire E. Honess Simon Gilson Mirko Tavoni Paola Nasti Theodore J. Cachey Jr. David G. Lummus Luca Bianchi and Vittorio Montemaggi.</p>