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DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265 - 1321)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Literary Criticism of Dante Alighieri.  Trans. Robert Haller.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1973.
  • Translations of the Later Works of Dante.  Trans. P. H. Wicksteed.  London: J. M. Dent, 1904.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • "Letter to Can Grande della Scala."  c.1318.
    • Literary Criticism of Dante Alighieri.  Trans. Robert Haller.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1973.
      • The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch, et al.  New York: Norton, 2001. 
      251-252.
      • The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends.  Ed. David H. Richter.  Boston: Bedford, 1998.  120-122.
    • Translations of the Later Works of Dante.  Trans. P. H. Wicksteed.  London: J. M. Dent, 1904.
      • Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971.  121-122.
  • Monarchia.  c.1316-18.

  • La Divina Commedia.  1307-1321.

  • De Vulgari Eloquentia.  c. 1305-7.

    • Cambridge: CUP, 1996.

  • Il Convivio.  1304-1308. 

    • Trans. Richard H. Lansing.  New York: Garland, 1990.

      • The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch, et al.  New York: Norton, 2001. 

      249-251.

    • Dante's Convivio.  Trans. W. W. Jackson.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1909.

      • Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971.  120-121.

  • Vita Nuova.  1292-94.

On-Line:

• Archives:
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Letter to Can Grande della Scala (c.1318)
  • Il Convivio (1304-1308):
    • Lansing Translation
    • Project Gutenberg Translation

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Auerbach, Erich.  Dante, Poet of the Secular World.  1961.

  • Harland, Richard.  "The Question of Language (Dante, du Bellay)."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  31-33.

  • Mazotta, Guiseppe.  Dante, Poet of the Desert: History and Allegory in the Divine Comedy.  1979.

  • Reynolds, Barbara.  Dante: the Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man. 

  • Toynbee, P. J.  Dante Alighieri: his Life and Works.  1965.

• Baranski, Zygmunt G.: Dante Alighieri (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)
• Wetherbee, Winthrop: Dante Alighieri (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Dante Alighieri

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