Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge
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Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge
By (Author) Giuseppe Mazzotta
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
851.1
Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1993
Physical Properties
Hardback
346
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
794g
Description
In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the cycle of the liberal arts, ethics, politics, and theology--interacted with poetry and elevated the Divine Comedy to a central position in shaping all other forms of discursive knowledge. To trace the circle of Dante's intellectua
Reviews
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993 "Mazzotta's path-breaking alignment of medieval encyclopedias with Dante's poem sets new trends for Dante scholarship while silencing the debate between formalists and non-formalists which has directed Dante scholarship since the turn of the century. The book also offers startling new directions for medieval studies in general."--Brenda Deen Schildgen, Modern Language Notes
