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How did the Florentine exile come to create this masterpiece? What steps in his development can explain the making of this extraordinary poem? In this book, a preeminent Dante scholar turns to the poet's body of works - the only real biography of Dante that we have - to illuminate these questions. Through an exposition of Dante's other writings, Robert Hollander provides a concise intellectual biography of the writer whom many consider the greatest narrative poet of the modern era. Hollander writes for those who have already encountered the Comedy, suggesting to these readers how Dante's other works relate to the great poem and inviting them to reread the Comedy with new interest and understanding.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347993563409,"sku":"CIN0300084943G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51292479521041,"sku":"GOR014218469","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51844161765649,"sku":"CIN0300084943A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300084943.jpg?v=1750876385"},{"product_id":"boccaccio-s-dante-and-the-shaping-force-of-satire-book-robert-hollander-9780472107674","title":"Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore the publications of Robert Hollander and Attilio Bettinzoli in the early 1980s, there was little recognition of the surprisingly large debt owed by Boccaccio to Dante hidden in the pages of the \u003ci\u003eDecameron\u003c\/i\u003e. Boccaccio's knowledge and use of the works of Dante constitute a challenging topic, one that is beginning to receive the attention it deserves. \u003cbr\u003eAmong commentators, it had been an unexamined commonplace that the \"young\" Boccaccio either did not know well or did not understand sufficiently the texts of Dante (even though the \"young\" Boccaccio is construed as including the thirty-eight-year-old author of the \u003ci\u003eDecameron\u003c\/i\u003e.) In \u003ci\u003eBoccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert Hollander offers a valuable synthesis of new material and some previously published essays, addressing the question of Dante's influence on Boccaccio, particularly concerning the \u003ci\u003eCommedia\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eDecameron\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003eHollander reveals that Boccaccio's writings are heavy with reminiscences of the Dante text, which he believed to be the greatest \"modern\" work. It was Boccaccio's belief that Dante was the only writer who had achieved a status similar to that reserved for the greatest writers of antiquity. Most of these essays try to show how carefully Boccaccio reflects the texts of Dante in the \u003ci\u003eDecameron\u003c\/i\u003e. Some essays also turn to the question of Boccaccio's allied reading of Ovid, especially the amatory work, as part of his strategy to base his work primarily on these two great authorities as he develops his own vernacular and satiric vision of human foolishness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome addition to the field of Dante studies and to medieval studies in general. \u003cbr\u003eRobert Hollander is Professor in European Literature and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University. 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Robert Hollander considers Dante’s political writings, commentary, and other poems as well as the Comedy to construct an intellectual biography of the great poet.     \"Hollander's lucid and brilliant discussion . . . is a joy to read.\"—Bernard Knox, New York Review of Books","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50958403174673,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50958403207441,"sku":"GOR009857042","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52342323052817,"sku":"NLS9780300212594","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53508269113617,"sku":"GOR014951679","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53655282647313,"sku":"GOR013321466","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300212593.jpg?v=1751005851"},{"product_id":"dante-and-paul-s-five-words-with-understanding-book-robert-hollander-9780866981217","title":"Dante and Paul's \"Five Words with Understanding\"","description":"\u003cb\u003eArgues there is a program of five-word utterances that imitate fallen language in Dante's Commedia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Dante and Paul's \"Five Words with Understanding\" is the first in a series of publications occasioned by the annual Bernardo Lecture at the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University. 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