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Dante: De vulgari eloquentia By Dante

Dante: De vulgari eloquentia by Dante


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De vulgari eloquentia is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Steven Botterill offers the only Latin-English edition of Dante's treatise, together with notes and introduction.

Dante: De vulgari eloquentia Summary

Dante: De vulgari eloquentia by Dante

De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Its opening consideration of language as a sign-system includes foreshadowings of twentieth-century semiotics, and later sections contain the first serious effort at literary criticism based on close analytical reading since the classical era. Steven Botterill here offers an accurate Latin text and a readable English translation of the treatise, together with notes and introductory material, thus making available a work which is relevant not only to Dante's poetry and the history of Italian literature, but to our whole understanding of late medieval poetics, linguistics, and literary practice.

Dante: De vulgari eloquentia Reviews

This useful and readable new translation is certainly a welcome addition to the literature on Dante for both undergraduates and scholars. Choice

Table of Contents

Introduction; Select bibliography; A note on the text; De vulgari eloquentia Book I, Book II; Explanatory notes; Index.

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NLS9780521409230
9780521409230
0521409233
Dante: De vulgari eloquentia by Dante
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2005-09-15
136
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