The Originality and the Contexts of the Convivio
by
Peter Dronke
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile, Dante's 'second love'; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of the third and fourth treatises of the Convivio . An excursus comments on the Donna Gentile's fate at the hands of scholars."