Prose Works of Dante Alighieri: Vol 2 (ed. Carlson)

Author: Dante Alighieri

Editor: Joe Carlson

ISBN: 9781963505153

Binding: paperback

Section: Literature of the Middle Ages

Keywords: Latin 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. Volume II: The Latin Works include De vulgari eloquentia (On the Eloquence of the Vernacular), De monarchia (On the Monarchy), Dante’s thirteen surviving epistles, and the manuscript of a scientific lecture on Aristotelean geography, titled Questio de aqua et terra.