{"product_id":"dantes-convivio-or-how-to-restart-a-career-in-exile-9783034318358","title":"Dante's «Convivio»: Or How to Restart a Career in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDante’s unfinished work, the \u003ci\u003eConvivio\u003c\/i\u003e, his first book written in exile, is often overlooked. This volume, instead of promoting the idea that Dante’s career evolved continuously from the youthful \u003ci\u003eVita nova \u003c\/i\u003ethrough to the \u003ci\u003eCommedia\u003c\/i\u003e, takes the \u003ci\u003eConvivio \u003c\/i\u003eas Dante’s first attempt to reassemble and reshape the remains of his Florentine past — from his love poetry to his philosophical readings — in order to construct a new way of defining himself as a writer after 1302. Contributors to the volume explore the \u003ci\u003eConvivio \u003c\/i\u003efrom a variety of different angles, including the issue of genre, the relationship between poetry and prose and Dante’s concept of the reader, as well as examining the importance of ideas such as nobility, the vernacular and Roman law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS: Zygmunt G. Barański: «Oh come e grande la mia impresa»: Notes towards Defining Dante’s \u003ci\u003eConvivio \u003c\/i\u003e- Enrico Fenzi: «Per suo desiderio sua perfezione non perde»: Knowledge and Happiness in the Third and Fourth Books of the \u003ci\u003eConvivio \u003c\/i\u003e- Theodore J. Cachey Jr: «Alcuna cosa di tanto nodo disnodare»: Cosmological Questions between the \u003ci\u003eConvivio \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eCommedia \u003c\/i\u003e- Anna Pegoretti: «Da questa nobilissima perfezione molti sono privati»: Impediments to Knowledge and the Tradition of Commentaries on Boethius’ \u003ci\u003eConsolatio Philosophiae \u003c\/i\u003e- Franziska Meier: «Questa sara luce nuova, sole nuovo»: Dante and the Vernacular in \u003ci\u003eConvivio \u003c\/i\u003eI - Albert Russell Ascoli: «Ponete mente almeno come io son bella»: Prose and Poetry, «pane» and «vivanda», Goodness and Beauty, in \u003ci\u003eConvivio \u003c\/i\u003eI - Maria Luisa Ardizzone: «Ne la selva erronea»: Dante’s \u003ci\u003eQuaestio \u003c\/i\u003eon Nobility and the Criticism of Materialism - Andrea Aldo Robiglio: «Poi che purgato e questo pane»: Vindication and Recognition in Dante’s \u003ci\u003eConvivio \u003c\/i\u003e- Lorenzo Valterza: «Pero si mosse la Ragione a comandare che …»: Roman Law and Ethics in the \u003ci\u003eConvivio \u003c\/i\u003e- Enrica Zanin: «Miseri, ’mpediti, affamati»: Dante’s Implied Reader in the \u003ci\u003eConvivio \u003c\/i\u003e- Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio: «Tu l’hai fatto di poco minore che li angeli»: Nobility, Imperial Majesty, and the \u003ci\u003eOptimus Finis \u003c\/i\u003ein \u003ci\u003eConvivio \u003c\/i\u003eIV and \u003ci\u003eMonarchia \u003c\/i\u003e- Luca Azzetta: «Di questo parla l’autore in una chiosa d’una sua \u003ci\u003ecanzone\u003c\/i\u003e»: The \u003ci\u003eConvivio \u003c\/i\u003ethrough the Eyes of Its First Readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043643654487,"sku":"9783034318358","price":48.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783034318358.jpg?v=1750958994","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dantes-convivio-or-how-to-restart-a-career-in-exile-9783034318358","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}