Recovering Dante: Politics And Philosophy In The Divine Comedy

Recovering Dante offers a radically new interpretation of the political outlook and philosophical commitments of the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri, arguing that his Divine Comedy is far from the epic celebration of Christianity it has generally been taken to be. Grounded in a fresh understanding of Dante's relationship to Brunetto Latini, a Florentine statesman of the era who was the poet's intellectual mentor, Lord's contention is that the influence on Dante's thought of Roman republi...