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Description of  Dante's Convivio : Or How to Restart a Career in Exile (Leeds Studies on Dante)

Dantes unfinished work, the Convivio, his first book written in exile, is often overlooked. This volume, instead of promoting the idea that Dantes career evolved continuously from the youthful Vita nova through to the Commedia, takes the Convivio as Dantes first attempt to reassemble and reshape the remains of his Florentine past from his love poetry to his philosophical readings in order to construct a new way of defining himself as a writer after 1302. Contributors to the volume explore the Read more