Dante

Name: Dante
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521409230
Price: 5050 KES
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ISBN: 9780521409230

by Dante

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Medieval Classics

ISBN-10 0521409233

ISBN-13 9780521409230

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 15th, 2005

Print length 136 Pages

Weight 18 grams

Dimensions 21.60 x 14.00 x 0.90 cms

Product Classification: Latin Poetry / poems by individual poets Poetry by individual poets Literary 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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