Accessible and informative account of Dante's great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.

A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.

Leading scholar Albert Russell Ascoli traces the metamorphosis of Dante Alighieri – minor Florentine aristocrat, political activist and exile, amateur philoso

A major re-evaluation of Boccaccio's status as literary innovator and cultural mediator equal to that of Petrarch and Dante.

In Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry, an international group of theologians and Dante scholars provide a uniquely rich set of perspectives focused on the rel