Critically selected by leading scholars in the field, this collection of facsimile reprints integrates a wide range of Dante scholarship in eight thematic volumes, illuminating the cosmos of Dante and providing the knowledge of a full range of fundamental ideas, issues, events and beliefs that characterized the world view of Dante's age. No work, with the exception of the Bible, has necessitated and been the recipient of more interpretive commentary than has the Divine Comedy . The identification of characters and historical events, the explanation of references and images, the citation of sources, the explication of moral concepts, the interpretation of allegorical figures - all these attempts to understand the whole of the Comedy and its constituent parts have produced a prodigious body of secondary literature edited here in eight volumes for their exceptional quality and importance.
Volume One: Dante and Beatrice: The Poet's Life and the Invention of
Poetry Mazzotta, Giuseppe. The Language of Poetry in the Vita Nuova. Rivista
di Studi Italiani 1, No. 1 (June 1983). Iannucci, Amilcare. Beatrice in
Limbo: a Metaphoric Harrowing of Hell. Dante Studies 97 (1979). Contini,
Gianfranco. Introduction to Dante's Rime. In Dante: A Collection of Critical
Essays, edited by John Freccero, (Engelwood Cliffs, New Jersey:
Prentice-Hall, 1965). Cambon, Glauco. Dante and the Drama of Language. In The
World of Dante Edited by Stanley Bernard Chandler and J. A. Molinaro
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966). Baranski, Zygmunt. The 'New
Life' of 'Comedy': The Commedia and the Vita Nuova. Dante Studies 113 (1995).
Bondanella, Peter E. Arnaut Daniel and Dante's Rime Petrose: A
Re-Examination. Studies in Philology 68 (1971). Hollander, Robert. Vita
Nuova: Dante's Perceptions of Beatrice. Dante Studies 92 (1974) Durling,
Robert M. 'Io son venuto': Seneca, Plato, and the Microcosm. Dante Studies 93
(1975). Barolini, Teodolinda. Autocitation and Autobiography. In Dante's
Poets: Textuality and Truth in the 'Comedy'N. (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1984). Moleta, Vincent. The Vita Nuova as a Lyric
Narrative. Forum Italicum 12 (1978). Took, John. Towards an Interpretation of
the Fiore. Speculum 54 (1979). Took, John. Dante and the Roman de la Rose.
Italian Studies 37 (1982). Cornish, Alison. Beatrice and the Astronomical
Heavens. Lectura Dantis 18/19 (Spring-Fall 1996). Martinez, Ronald. Mourning
Beatrice: The Rhetoric of Threnody in the Vita Nuova. Modern Language Notes
113, No. 1 (January 1998). Ferrante, Joan. Dante's Beatrice: Priest of an
Androgynous God. Occasional Papers,
2. (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval &
Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992). Harrison, Robert Pogue. Vision and
Revision: The Provisionary Essence of the Vita Nuova. Texas Studies in
Literature and Language 32, No. 1 (Spring 1990). Stone, Gregory. Dante's
Averroistic Hermeneutics (On 'Meaning' in the Vita Nuova). Dante Studies 112
(1994). Ahern, John. The New Life of the Book: The Implied Reader of the Vita
Nuova. Dante Studies 110 (1992). Volume Two: Dante and Classical Antiquity:
The Epic Tradition Hollander, Robert. Tragedy in Dante's Comedy. Sewanee
Review 91, No. 2 (Spring 1983) Di Cesare, Mario A. Interrupted Symmetries:
Terza Rima, Heroic Verse, First Lines, and the Styles of Epic. Mediaevalia: A
Journal of Mediaeval Studies 12 (1989). Hollander, Robert. Dante and the
Martial Epic. Mediaevalia: A Journal of Mediaeval Stud
