Fiore in Context

<p>The second volume in the original William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies <i>The</i> Fiore <i>in Context: Dante France Tuscany</i> is the record of a milestone in the study of the <i>Fiore</i> and perhaps in Dante studies: the international conference on the <i>Fiore</i> held at St. John's College Cambridge in September 1994. The conference attended by most of the world's leading experts on the <i>Fiore</i> examined many aspects of the poem including textual questions its cultural context and its relations with the <i>Roman de la Rose</i> and the <i>Comedy</i>. Above all it constituted in the judgment of the participants themselves the most important discussion of the poem's attribution to Dante since Contini's pronouncement of the question in 1965. The published proceedings reproduce both the questionnaire that framed the conference in which each participant weighs all the principal arguments for and against attributing the <i>Fiore</i> to Dante as well as the lively discussion that followed each paper.</p>