The Dante Library
The Prose Works of Dante Alighieri
Volumes I and II
With introductions and annotations by Joe Carlson
Collected here for the first time in English are all of Dante’s prose works, with new introductions and annotations by Dante scholar Joe Carlson. These two volumes are a boon to scholars and students alike, providing them with access to the rest of what Dante wrote.
Combined with the Comedy, this is nearly everything Dante ever wrote.
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The rest of what Dante wrote
While the Comedy is certainly his most important contribution to what C. S. Lewis called “Old Western Culture,” Dante’s other works brilliantly attest to his extensive reading and learning, his tremendous ability to digest and synthesize the teachings of others, his innate skill as a rhetorician, and his singularly inquisitive mind.
Compiled here together for the first time are the excellent translations of Charles Eliot Norton (Vita nuova), Philip H. Wicksteed (Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, and Questio), Aurelia Henry Reinhardt (De monarchia), and Paget Toynbee (Epistolae), lightly edited for a modern audience, and organized to conform to modern reference systems.
In addition to original introductions to each of the works, these volumes include a bevy of new notes and explanations from Dante scholar and translator, Joe Carlson, in which he identifies the numerous intertextual allusions to the Comedy contained within these works.
Two volumes: the rest of what Dante wrote
Volume II: The Latin Works
De vulgari eloquentia · De monarchia · Epistolae · Questio
Dr. Joe Carlson
Joe Carlson holds a BA in Liberal Arts and Culture from New Saint Andrews College, and an MA in Humanities and a PhD in Literature from the University of Dallas. He is a Senior Editor with Roman Roads Press and a Literature professor at New Saint Andrews College.
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