Prose Works of Dante Alighieri: Vol 1 (ed. Carlson)

Author: Dante Alighieri

Editor: Joe Carlson

ISBN: 9781963505146

Binding: paperback

Section: Literature of the Middle Ages

Keywords: Italian Works

Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is known the world over for the Divine Comedy, arguably the greatest poem ever written. But that was not all he wrote. Several other prose texts round out the great poet’s ouevre. Whereas Vita nuova combines poetry and prose to praise the loveliness of Beatrice, the Convivio does the same in praise of Philosophy. These two works, both originally written in Italian, comprise Volume I.