Dante Encyclopedia by Richard Lansing - 9780415876117

Dante EncyclopediaAuthor(s): Richard Lansing\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415876117, 978-0415876117\nSynopsis\nAvailable for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy.\n\nThe only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia:\n\nbrings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid prose \n\nprovides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looking at title and form, moral structure, allegory and realism, manuscript tradition, and also taking account of the various editions of the work over the centuries \n\ncontains numerous entries on Dante's other important writings and on the major subjects covered within them \n\naddresses connections between Dante and philosophy, theology, poetics, art, psychology, science, and music as well as critical perspective a.