Dante's Vita Nova

<p><strong>This original volume proposes a novel way of reading Dante's <em>Vita nova</em> exemplified in a rich diversity of scholarly approaches to the text.</strong></p><p>This groundbreaking volume represents the fruit of a two-year-long series of international seminars aimed at developing a fresh way of reading Dante's <em>Vita nova</em>. By analyzing each of its forty-two chapters individually focus is concentrated on the <em>Vita nova</em> in its textual and historical context rather than on its relationship to the <em>Divine Comedy</em>. This decoupling has freed the contributors to draw attention to various important literary features of the text including its rich and complex polysemy as well as its structural fluidity. The volume likewise offers insights into Dante's social environment his relationships with other poets and Dante's evolving vision of his poetry's scope. Using a variety of critical methodologies and hermeneutical approaches this volume offers scholars an opportunity to reread the <em>Vita nova</em> in a renewed context and from a diversity of literary cultural and ideological perspectives.</p><p>Contributors: Zygmunt G. Barański Heather Webb Claire E. Honess Brian F. Richardson Ruth Chester Federica Pich Matthew Treherne Catherine Keen Jennifer Rushworth Daragh O'Connell Sophie V. Fuller Giulia Gaimari Emily Kate Price Manuele Gragnolati Elena Lombardi Francesca Southerden Rebecca Bowen Nicolò Crisafi Lachlan Hughes Franco Costantini David Bowe Tristan Kay Filippo Gianferrari Simon Gilson Rebekah Locke Luca Lombardo Peter Dent George Ferzoco Paola Nasti Marco Grimaldi David G. Lummus Helena Phillips-Robins Aiste Kiltinavičiūte Alessia Carrai Ryan Pepin Valentina Mele Katherine Powlesland Federica Coluzzi K. P. Clarke Nicolò Maldina Theodore J. Cachey Jr. Chiara Sbordoni Lorenzo Dell'Oso and Anne C. Leone.</p>