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Average customer rating: The New Dante Reference of Choice At last a reasonable encyclopedia in English!

The Dante Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 1836) R. Lansing Manufacturer: TF-ROUTL ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding Reference | Books & Reading | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books | Classics | Comic | Contemporary | Literary General | Criticism & Theory | History & Criticism | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Movements & Periods | History & Criticism | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books | Arthurian Romance | Beat Generation | General | Gothic Revival | Medieval | Modernism | Postmodernism | Renaissance | Romanticism | Surrealism | Victorian Italian | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Criticism | Poetry | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Antiques & Collectibles | Encyclopedias | Reference | Subjects | Books Literature | Encyclopedias | Reference | Subjects | Books General | Writing | Reference | Subjects | Books General | Reference | Subjects | Books Qualifying Textbooks - Spring 2007 | Stores | Books Similar Items: The Cambridge Companion to Dante (Cambridge Companions to Literature) The Life of Dante (Hesperus Classics) Understanding Dante (The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies) A Modern Reader's Guide to Dante's the Divine Comedy The Dore Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy ASIN: 0815316593

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Dante's World, Work, and Influence
The Dante Encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work that presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works and the cultural context in which his moral and intellectual imagination took shape. It is the only such work currently available in the English language.

The first major source of its kind in the English language.
Until now, much Dante scholarship has been scattered in various sources and not available in English. This book brings together all the most recent theories about Dante and his works and summarizes them in clear and vivid prose for readers who seek basic but detailed information on all major aspects of Dante scholarship.

Includes entries on all the major characters in, and aspects of, the Divine Comedy.
The entry on the Divine Comedy covers far more than the surface details of this masterpiece. In-depth discussions treat its title and form, its moral structure, andits allegory and realism. Additional entries offer comprehensive discussions of the Divine Comedy manuscript tradition; of the various editions of the work over the centuries; and of the early and Renaissance commentaries on the work.

Includes numerous entries on Dante's other works.
The encyclopedia contains numerous entries on Dante's other important writings and on the major subjects covered within these works. Topical essays correlate the intellectual foundations of Dante's thought and works with the heritage of the Middle Ages and its various related disciplines.

Cross disciplinary in its approach.
The encyclopedia addresses connections between Dante and philosophy, theology, poetics, art, psychology, science, and music as well as critical perspective across the ages, from Dante's first critics (Boccaccio and Dante's son Pietro) to the present.

Reflects the present state of scholarship.
Where disagreement exists among scholars, the major points of contention are summarized and the underlying critical disagreements are presented in a clear style and neutral tone.

Abundantly illustrated.
More than 200 illustrations show the reader historic renderings of Dante's otherworld moral structure, the medieval world view of the globe, and representations of Dante's otherworld by various artists through the ages. The book also includes contemporary photographs of specific locations significant in Dante's history.

Customer Reviews:

The New Dante Reference of Choice.......2000-07-17

The maps and schematic drawings at the beginning of the encyclopedia are the best of their kind. The text is interspersed with an abundance of fine photographs and illustrations. Appended to the work are a detailed and reliable chronology of the poet's life, useful lists of the popes and emperors, a chronology of musical settings of Dante's Comedy, a list of available recordings of these settings, a list of reference works (including electronic resources), a complete pronouncing index, with textual citations, of the Italian and Latin proper names used by Dante, and an exhaustive index of subjects and illustrations.

So big, so accurate and comprehensive, the Dante Encyclopedia completely supersedes its predecessors and promises to remain authoritative for many years. No college or university, no lover of poetry and world literature will want to be without it.

At last a reasonable encyclopedia in English!.......2000-05-01

As my own metric, I like to pick a topic that is not altogether esoteric and that is the subject of at least several competing theories. In studying Dante, that topic for me is numerology. I was especially pleased to read the article on numerology because the Dante Encyclopedia fairly explained the competing theories on the use of numerology by Dante. Never have I seen one source that provides the in-depth overview that this book does. For the serious student of the classics, this is a must-have! Gracie! And bravo!

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