This collection – to be issued in three volumes – offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante. The volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy website.
The volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy website.
This collection - to be issued in three volumes - offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem.
This collection - to be issued in three volumes - offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem.
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This collection in three volumes offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem.
Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem.
Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy (three-volume set)
Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300.
He offers a scrupulous exposition of each of the ten Cantos, ironing out linguistic difficulties. The volume is genuinely introductory and could be profitably read by all non-specialists approaching Dante's poem for the first time.
In Day-to-Day Dante, Slattery presents passages from Dante Alighieris fourteenth-century poem The Divine Comedy to assist you in searching for the core elements of your personal myth.