A New Life of Dante

by Bemrose, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780859895835
• ISBN10: 0859895831
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Exeter Pr

Author Biography

Stephen Bemrose is lecturer in Italian, University of Exeter.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
A List of Dante's Works, and the Editions Used in this Book	xiii
Abbreviations	xiv
A Guide to Further Reading in English	xv
Guelph and Ghibelline, a Prefatory Note	xix
A Florentine Childhood (1265--1283)	1	(5)
Beatrice and the Vita Nuova (1283--1295)	6	(15)
Early Influences: The Medieval Lyric; Brunetto Latini; the Roman Poets	6	(5)
The Detto d'Amore and the Fiore	11	(2)
From Bologna to Caprona	13	(3)
Beatrice	16	(1)
The Vita Nuova	17	(4)
The Consolation of Philosophy (1290--1296)	21	(16)
Boethius and Cicero	21	(3)
Aristotelianism and the Friars	24	(5)
Dante's Earliest Philosophical Poems	29	(2)
The Tenzone with Forese	31	(2)
The Rime Petrose	33	(2)
Charles Martel	35	(2)
Guilds and Government: Dante the Politician (1295--1300)	37	(14)
The Florentine Political System	37	(2)
Giano della Bella's Reforms	39	(2)
Dante's Political Debut	41	(2)
Guelphs and Guelphs	43	(4)
Dante in the Jubilee Year	47	(4)
Boniface VIII and the Black Coup (1300--1302)	51	(13)
Dante's Last Months in Florence	51	(2)
Boniface and Celestine	53	(2)
Boniface, Charles de Valois and Florence	55	(5)
The Coup and its Aftermath	60	(4)
Early Exile (1302--1304)	64	(20)
Dante in Tuscany, Forli and Verona	64	(3)
The De Vulgari Eloquentia	67	(8)
The Poems of Righteousness	75	(2)
Boniface and Philip IV	77	(4)
Dante's Break with the Whites	81	(3)
A One-Man Party (1304--1308)	84	(29)
Cino da Pistoia and the Malaspina	85	(4)
The Convivio: Book I	89	(4)
Convivio II	93	(4)
Convivio III	97	(4)
Convivio IV	101	(8)
The Casentino: Dante's last canzone	109	(2)
Lucca	111	(2)
The Sacred Poem: A Survey of the Divine Comedy (1308--1321)	113	(60)
Preliminaries	113	(1)
The Lost People	114	(25)
The Saved Spirits	139	(17)
The Dancing Lights	156	(17)
Henry VII and Dante's Imperial Dream (1308--1313)	173	(16)
A New Emperor	173	(3)
Henry's Descent and Dante's Fifth Letter	176	(3)
The Milan Coronation: Dante's Letters from Poppi	179	(3)
Henry's Foes: Florence, Clement and Robert	182	(4)
After the Emperor's Death	186	(3)
The Gentleman of Verona (1312--1318)	189	(18)
Dante and the Cardinals: The Eleventh Letter	190	(1)
Uguccione, Florence and Dante's Twelfth Letter	191	(4)
The Can Grande Letter	195	(4)
The Monarchia	199	(8)
Ravenna (1318--1321)	207	(14)
The Quaestio de aqua et terra	209	(2)
The Eclogues	211	(5)
The Mission to Venice; Dante's Death	216	(5)
Conclusion	221	(2)
Notes	223	(11)
Bibliography	234	(7)
Index	241