Dante
by
Dante
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Medieval Classics
ISBN-10
0521400643
ISBN-13
9780521400640
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 10th, 1996
Print length
136 Pages
Weight
300 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 14.30 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
LatinPoetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poetsLiterary studies: general
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De vulgari eloquentia is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Steven Botterill offers the only Latin-English edition of Dante's treatise, together with notes and introduction.
De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Its opening consideration of language as a sign-system includes foreshadowings of twentieth-century semiotics, and later sections contain the first serious effort at literary criticism based on close analytical reading since the classical era. Steven Botterill here offers an accurate Latin text and a readable English translation of the treatise, together with notes and introductory material, thus making available a work which is relevant not only to Dante's poetry and the history of Italian literature, but to our whole understanding of late medieval poetics, linguistics, and literary practice.
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