Dante: De Vulgari Eloquentia

By:

Dante Alighieri

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Paperback

Series:

Cambridge Medieval Classics

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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.

Release date NZ

September 15th, 2005

Author

Dante Alighieri

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Edited and translated by Steven Botterill
Series edited by Peter Dronke

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Illustrations

notes, index

Imprint

Cambridge University Press

Pages

136

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Series

Cambridge Medieval Classics

Dimensions

138x216x8

ISBN-13

9780521409230

Product ID

2362478

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