Dante: Convivio
A Dual-Language Critical Edition
- Real Author: Dante Alighieri
- Editor and Translator: Andrew Frisardi
- Date Published: January 2022
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316505021
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Dante's Convivio, composed in exile between 1304 and 1307, is a series of self-commentaries on three of Dante's long poems. These allegorical love poems and philosophical verse become the basis for philosophical, literary, moral, and political exposition. The prose is written in Italian so that those who were not educated in Latin could take part in what Dante called his 'banquet of knowledge'. In this edition, eminent Dante translator-scholar Andrew Frisardi offers the first fully annotated translation of the work into English, with an extensive introduction, making Dante's often complex writings accessible to scholars and students. The parallel Italian text is also included for the first time in an English translation of the Convivio. Readers of this work can gain a strong understanding of the philosophical themes across Dante's work, including the Divine Comedy, as well as the logic, politics and science of his time.
Read more- The first fully annotated English translation of this important work from a canonical author, based on the current standard critical 1995 Italian edition, with extensive notes on previous editions, and use of existing and up-to-date Dante scholarship
- The reader gains a good understanding of Dante's thought in the Convivio and consequently (since so much of the Convivio's content is echoed in his masterpiece) in the Divine Comedy
- Includes an extensive introduction and notes which will help explain the work for students and scholars
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'As well as a translation, [Frisardi] offers the most recent Italian text, … along with a long thoughtful introduction and more than 200 pages of notes. … The Convivio … demands application and reflection. Frisardi provides serious, up-to-date help for the willing anglophone reader - substantial nourishment.' Peter Hainsworth, The Times Literary Supplement
See more reviews'Andrew Frisardi's new dual-language translation situates itself carefully into [a] flourishing current of contemporary work, and makes a most welcome addition to the available literature. … Frisardi's excellent edition-translation and its apparatus is to be welcomed for its concern to present afresh the Convivio to an anglophone readership and for the ways it foregrounds its importance and multifaceted character as one of Dante's most important 'other works'.' Simon Gilson, Speculum
'I welcome this book as one of the finest heralds of an upcoming, new phase in the life of Dante's Convivio.' Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Temenos Academy Review
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- Date Published: January 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316505021
- length: 728 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 35 mm
- weight: 1.13kg
- contains: 6 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Translator's preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the Convivio: a portrait
Dante and Lady Philosophia-Sapientia
Dante's quest for knowledge
Dante and nobility
Convivio: Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Appendix: prose translations of the 'Three Canzoni'
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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