Dante’s Tears

The Poetics of Weeping from Vita Nuova to the Commedia

by Rossana Fenu Barbera

Book cover: Dante’s Tears

Extent: 224 pages

Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

Subjects: Italian Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Biblioteca dell'Archivum Romanicum. Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia

Series volume number: 468, 468

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2017)

ISBN: 9788822265067

Price: $41.00

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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.

  • By (author) Rossana Fenu Barbera