The Dante Library
The Prose Works of Dante Alighieri
Volume I: The Italian Works
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, translator of the Divine Comedy and author of the Dante Curriculum.
Both volumes are $49.95 in paperback. Volume II, The Latin Works, has a page just like this one.
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The rest of what Dante wrote
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 oeuvre.
Most readers of Dante are only acquainted with the Divine Comedy, and understandably so. Some know about his youthful Vita nuova in which he tells the story of his love for Beatrice. But many have never even heard of his other works. Whereas Vita nuova combines poetry and prose to praise the loveliness of Beatrice, the Convivio does the same in praise of Philosophy.
Had it been completed (it was abandoned just before Dante began the Comedy), the Convivio would have been a major achievement. The first philosophical treatise in the Italian language (and almost in any vernacular outside of Latin!), the Convivio brings together Dante’s intense love of reason and theology, poetry and philosophy, cosmology and ethics.
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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