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Hero Or Tyrant: Images Of Julius Caesar In Selected Works From Vergil To Bruni, Sarah Marianne Loose
Hero Or Tyrant: Images Of Julius Caesar In Selected Works From Vergil To Bruni, Sarah Marianne Loose
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Gaius Julius Caesar is not only the most well-known figure in Roman history, but he is also one of the most difficult to understand. Since his assassination, Caesar has played an important role in discussions of political power, imperial government, tyranny, and tyrannicide. While there have been literary treatments of Caesar from William Shakespeare to the present, little has been done to trace the image of Caesar through the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance. The present work attempts to fill that hole by examining portrayals of Caesar in medieval and early Renaissance texts. An examination of specific authors such …
Review Essay: Dante Alighieri. Monarchia, Joseph Rosenblum
Review Essay: Dante Alighieri. Monarchia, Joseph Rosenblum
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Dante Alighieri. Monarchia. Trans. and ed. Prue Shaw. Cambridge University Preess, Cambridge, 1995. 186 pp. $54.95.
Review Essay: Dante Today, Theodore J. Cachey Jr.
Review Essay: Dante Today, Theodore J. Cachey Jr.
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Dante Today, ed. Amilcare A. Iannucci, special spring and fall volume of Quaaderni d'italianistica, 10.1-2 (1989).
Review Essay: Karla Taylor, Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy", Sandy Feinstein
Review Essay: Karla Taylor, Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy", Sandy Feinstein
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Karla Taylor, Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy," Stanford University Press, 1989, vi, 289 pp., biblio., index, $29.50.
Review Essay: Antonio C. Mastrobuono, Dante's Journey Of Sanctification, Madison U. Sowell
Review Essay: Antonio C. Mastrobuono, Dante's Journey Of Sanctification, Madison U. Sowell
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Antonio C. Mastrobuono, Dante's Journey of Sanctification, Regnery Gateway, 1990, xiii, 279 pp., ill., biblio., $14.95.
Review Essay: Henry Ansgar Kelly, Tragedy And Comedy From Dante To Pseudo-Dante, Madison U. Sowell
Review Essay: Henry Ansgar Kelly, Tragedy And Comedy From Dante To Pseudo-Dante, Madison U. Sowell
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Henry Ansgar Kelly, Tragedy and Comedy from Dante to Pseudo-Dante, University of California Press, 1989.
Latin And Vernacular In Fourteenth- And Fifteenth-Century Italy, Paul Oskar Kristeller
Latin And Vernacular In Fourteenth- And Fifteenth-Century Italy, Paul Oskar Kristeller
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The subject of this essay concerns Dante only indirectly and in part. Nevertheless I hope to be able, among other things, to explain Dante's historical position and his influence on the Italian Renaissance. I cannot avoid partially repeating what I wrote in some of my previous studies, especially in my early article on the Italian prose language. Some of my prior observations, which seemed new to me at the time, have since been widely accepted; but some new sources and literature have been added in the meantime, and on some points I have changed my opinion or paid attention to …
Chaucer And The Three Crowns Of Florence (Dante, Petrarch, And Boccaccio): Recent Comparative Scholarship, Madison U. Sowell
Chaucer And The Three Crowns Of Florence (Dante, Petrarch, And Boccaccio): Recent Comparative Scholarship, Madison U. Sowell
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Chaucer and the Italian Trecento. Ed. Piero Boitani. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 313 p. $49.50.
Howard H. Schless, Chaucer and Dante: A Revaluation. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1984. 268 p. $85.00.
R. A. Shoaf, Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the World: Money, Images, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1983. 313 p. $39.95.