Dante: A Brief History. By Peter Hawkins
Peter Hawkins’ Dante: A Brief History is a book that Dante Alighieri would have liked. In the Convivio, Alighieri declared his intention to ‘break down the bread of knowledge’ to those who did not know Latin—the language of high culture in the thirteenth century. Hawkins’ attempt to introduce ‘the g...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2007
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| In: |
Literature and theology
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 101-103 |
| Review of: | Dante (Malden, Mass. [u.a.] : Blackwell Publ, 2006) (Bittarello, Maria Beatrice)
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Book review
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| Summary: | Peter Hawkins’ Dante: A Brief History is a book that Dante Alighieri would have liked. In the Convivio, Alighieri declared his intention to ‘break down the bread of knowledge’ to those who did not know Latin—the language of high culture in the thirteenth century. Hawkins’ attempt to introduce ‘the general educated reader’ to Dante's work is then perfectly in line with the worldview that brought Alighieri to write his major work in the vernacular., This agile book is a good introduction to Dante and his works, especially the Commedia. Since the book is not addressed to Dantistas, the bibliography is selective and exclusively in English; several maps and illustrations, both in colour and in black and white, help readers to look at the world the way Dante and his contemporaries did. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frm002 |
