Dante’s Tears

The Poetics of Weeping from Vita Nuova to the Commedia

by Rossana Fenu Barbera

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Paperback (Published)

(September 2017)

ISBN: 9788822265067

Price: $51.00

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Dante’s Tears proves a poetics of weeping relevant to Dante’s poetry in coincidence with his theological interests celebrated in the Commedia, and seeded in Vita Nuova. It reveals an untold story of Dante and Beatrice, and allows a new code of communication, the key of a hermeneutics of Dante’s text that embraces as a whole religion, politics, physiology, and the poet’s own concerns on matters such as desire and love.

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Rossana Fenu Barbera has taught and conducted academic research in the United States for over twenty-five years. After earning a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature (Humanities Department, University of Florence, 1983), she earned her PhD in Italian Literature (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1998). She has written numerous literary articles as well as the book La donna che cammina. Incanto e mito della seduzione del passo femminile nella letteratura italiana del primo Novecento (Ravenna: Longo, 2001), which won the Grazia Deledda National Literature Prize (Non-fiction, 2005). She currently teaches at Loyola Blakefield and directs her own school, The Center for Italian Studies, in Baltimore.

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