Dante (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
Other Literary Forms
Other than his The Divine Comedy, Dante left a volume of works in poetic and prose forms. Around 1292, his La vita nuova (c. 1292; Vita Nuova, 1861; better known as The New Life, 1867), a collection of love lyrics linked by prose commentaries that tell the history of Dante’s love for Beatrice, was published. Il convivio (c. 1307; The Banquet, 1903) was intended to be a commentary on fourteen of Dante’s canzoni; the philosophical work was left unfinished. A theoretical work on the common language, De...
[The entire page is 4940 words long]
Navigate
- Dante (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
- Dante (Critical Survey of Poetry)
- Dante (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
- Dante (Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages)
- Dante (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
- Dante (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
See Also:
Divine Comedy, The (Masterplots Classics)Divine Comedy, The (Magill Book Reviews)Divine Comedy, The (Character Profiles)Divine Comedy, The (Literary Places)Inferno of Dante, The (Literary Annual Reviews)New Life, The (Masterplots Classics)New Life, The (Character Profiles)New Life, The (Literary Places)English and Continental Poetry in the Fourteenth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry)Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry)Italian Poetry to 1800 (Topical Overview--Poetry)Medieval Romance, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
- Add Dante to your favorites