de Vulgari Eloquentia: Dante's Book of Exile

Author/Contributor(s):	Shapiro, Marianne
Publisher:	University of Nebraska Press
Date:	12/01/1990
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"A thorough overview of the very particular nature of Dante's treatise. It discusses the work as the distinctive product of the poet's exile, a universal statement on language that coincides with and complements Dante's conception of Empire. This text contains much valuable commentary." -- Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin.