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Dante Alighieri
(1265-1321)
Italian poet
 10 other titles

Legenda: Oxford, 2011
£45.00 ($69.00 US)  Hardback  200pp
ISBN: 978-1-900755-99-3

Oxford University’s Paget Toynbee Fund has sponsored a number of significant initiatives on Dante in recent years, first a series of Lectures starting in the mid-1990s, and more recently a number of conferences. This volume gathers together some of the most important Paget Toynbee Lectures. Named after the great medieval scholar of the first half of the twentieth century, they were delivered by major Dante experts of our time, such as John Barnes, Peter Hawkins, Lino Leonardi, Emilio Pasquini, and the late Michelangelo Picone and Peter Armour. The topics range from Armour’s trilogy of lectures on the topics of exile, friendship and poverty in Dante to key questions such as Dante and Ovid, Dante and history, and Dante and evil.

With the contributions:

Tristan Kay, Martin McLaughlin, Michelangelo Zaccarello — Introduction
Lino Leonardi — The New Text of Dante’s Rime
Michelangelo Picone — Dante, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile
Peter Armour — Exile and Disgrace
Peter Armour — Misfortune and Poverty
Peter Armour — Friends and Patrons
John C. Barnes — Dante’s Knowledge of Florentine History
Peter S. Hawkins — Bottom of the Universe: Dante and Evil
Emilio Pasquini — Dante and the ‘Prefaces of Truth’: From ‘Figure’ to ‘Completion’
Emilio Pasquini — Medieval Polarities: Dantism and Petrarchism