Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2003
The Paget Toynbee lectures on Dante have taken place in Oxford since the mid-1990s. Named after the great medieval scholar of the first half of the twentieth century, they have been delivered by the major Dante experts of our time. This volume gathers together twelve of the most significant lectures, given by internationally renowned scholars such as Zygmunt Baranski, John Barnes, Lino Leonardi, Emilio Pasquini, Michelangelo Picone, Jonathan Usher and the late Peter Armour. The topics range from key questions such as Dante, Ovid and the poetry of exile, to ground-breaking work on obscenity in the Divine Comedy .
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Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2003
The Paget Toynbee lectures on Dante have taken place in Oxford since the mid-1990s. Named after the great medieval scholar of the first half of the twentieth century, they have been delivered by the major Dante experts of our time. This volume gathers together twelve of the most significant lectures, given by internationally renowned scholars such as Zygmunt Baranski, John Barnes, Lino Leonardi, Emilio Pasquini, Michelangelo Picone, Jonathan Usher and the late Peter Armour. The topics range from key questions such as Dante, Ovid and the poetry of exile, to ground-breaking work on obscenity in the Divine Comedy .
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Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2003

Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2003

by Tristan Kay
Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2003

Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2003

by Tristan Kay

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The Paget Toynbee lectures on Dante have taken place in Oxford since the mid-1990s. Named after the great medieval scholar of the first half of the twentieth century, they have been delivered by the major Dante experts of our time. This volume gathers together twelve of the most significant lectures, given by internationally renowned scholars such as Zygmunt Baranski, John Barnes, Lino Leonardi, Emilio Pasquini, Michelangelo Picone, Jonathan Usher and the late Peter Armour. The topics range from key questions such as Dante, Ovid and the poetry of exile, to ground-breaking work on obscenity in the Divine Comedy .

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ISBN-13: 9781351570213
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/05/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 200
File size: 879 KB

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Tristan Kay

Table of Contents

1: The New Text of Dante’s Rime 1; 2: Dante, Ovid and the Poetry of Exile; 3: Exile and Disgrace; 4: Misfortune and Poverty; 5: Friends and Patrons 1; 6: Dante’s Knowledge of Florentine History 1; 7: Bottom of the Universe: Dante and Evil 1; 8: Dante and the ‘Prefaces of Truth’: From ‘Figure’ to ‘Completion’ 1; 9: Medieval Polarities: Dantism and Petrarchism
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