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This innovative exploration of the literature, history, and culture of the Apennines links a twenty-first century journey along the walking trail of the 'Great Apennine Excursion' to accounts and discussions of past travellers--including pilgrims, merchants, tourists, soldiers, partisans, and poets--from the Medieval period up to World War Two.

Dante's Purgatorio has been described as the most 'human' of the three parts of his Comedy, and it can also be seen as a 'singing school' for poets. This new complete translation by sixteen contemporary poets enters into dialogue with Dante's text by rendering it in a variety of different Anglophone voices - American, Australian, British, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish and Singaporean. The poets in this Purgatorio adopt a range of forms, from blank...

Dante's persistent and pervasive presence has been a remarkable feature of modern writing since the late eighteenth century. This collection of essays by an international group of scholars emphasizes that presence in the work of major British and Irish writers (such as Blake, Shelley, Joyce and Heaney). It also focuses on responses in America, the Caribbean and Italy and deals with appropriations of Dante's work by poets (from Gray to Walcott)...

Dante's British Public examines the many and various ways in which the work of the leading poet of medieval Europe has been acquired, represented, and discussed by British readers over the last six centuries.

Dante's British Public examines the many and various ways in which the work of the leading poet of medieval Europe has been acquired, represented, and discussed by British readers over the last six centuries.

A comprehensive guide to Dante's life and literature, with an emphasis on his "Commedia." This text looks at the influences that shaped Dante's writing, and the reception of his work by later readers, from the 14th century to the present. Introduces Dante through four main approaches: the context of his life and career, his literary and cultural traditions, key themes, episodes and passages in his own work, especially the "Commedia", and the r...

A comprehensive guide to Dante's life and literature, with an emphasis on his "Commedia." This text looks at the influences that shaped Dante's writing, and the reception of his work by later readers, from the 14th century to the present. Introduces Dante through four main approaches: the context of his life and career, his literary and cultural traditions, key themes, episodes and passages in his own work, especially the "Commedia", and the r...

This study will appeal to scholars interested in medieval religious and intellectual history.

The nineteenth century saw the reinvention of Dante as a Romantic and national poet, his recognition as the canonical 'central man of all the world' and the Commedia's diffusion as a widely accessible text. Addressing these aspects of Dante's presence during a key period of his modern reception, this collection of essays draws upon a number of papers given at the international conference 'Dante in the Nineteenth Century', held at the Universit...

Dante's persistent and pervasive presence has been a remarkable feature of modern writing since the late eighteenth century. This collection of essays by an international group of scholars emphasizes that presence in the work of major British and Irish writers (such as Blake, Shelley, Joyce and Heaney). It also focuses on responses in America, the Caribbean and Italy and deals with appropriations of Dante's work by poets (from Gray to Walcott)...

This study will appeal to scholars interested in medieval religious and intellectual history.