Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's Rime Petrose - Couverture rigide

Durling, Robert M.; Martinez, Ronald L.

 
9780520064881: Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's Rime Petrose
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0520064887 ISBN 13 : 9780520064881
Editeur : University of California Press, 1990

Synopsis

The Rime petrose, Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally acknowledged to be an important moment in his stylistic development. In this first full-length investigation of the poetics of the petrose and of their relation to the Divine Comedy, Durling and Martinez uncover much new material, especially from medieval science (astrology and mineralogy), philosophy, and theology. The authors argue that the Rime petrose represent a major turning point in Dante's conception of a "microcosmic poetics" that became the fundamental mode of the Commedia. They demonstrate how Dante here attempts his first full account of his relation to the universe as a whole.

This work offers many new insights into the intrinsic significance of these remarkable poems and their place in Dante's development—especially far-reaching are the implications for the interpretation of the Divine Comedy. The book will be of interest not only to students of Dante but also to intellectual historians, historians of science, students of poetics and poetic theory, and to all those interested in medieval literature.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert M. Durling is Professor of Italian and English Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of The Figure of the Poet in Renaissance Epic and translator of Petrarch's Lyric Poems. Ronald L. Martinez is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Minnesota and the author of numerous articles on Dante, Boccaccio, and Machiavelli.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1990
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520064887
ISBN 13 
9780520064881
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
498
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780520303553: Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's Rime petrose

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0520303555 ISBN 13 :  9780520303553
Editeur : University of California Press, 2018
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