Dante

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Cover Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS Abbreviations Acknowledgements Preface: In fondo, una serietà terribile PART I Preliminary Considerations Chapter 1 Historical Considerations ◆ Florence between the Guelphs and Ghibellines (1215–79) ◆ Florence between the Blacks and the Whites (1279–1302) ◆ The Descent and Demise of Henry VII (1302–13) Chapter 2 Biographical Considerations ◆ Susceptibility and the Significant Encounter (1265–93) ◆ Care, Conflict and Catastrophe (1293–1302) ◆ Far-Wandering and the Agony of Exile (1302–21) PART II The Early Years: From Dante da Maiano to the Vita nova Chapter 1 Preliminary Remarks: Love and Love-Intelligence Chapter 2 Literary Hinterland: From Provençal to the stilo de la loda Chapter 3 Literary Apprenticeship and a Coming of Age ◆ Dante guittoniano ◆ Dante cavalcantiano ◆ Dante and the Rose: The Fiore and the Detto d’amore ◆ Dante guinizzelliano Chapter 4 The Vita nova ◆ Preliminary Remarks: Antecedent Utterance and an Essay in Authoring ◆ Love Seeking and Seeking Not Its Own ◆ Conclusion: New Life and a Commedia a minore PART III The Middle Years: The Moral and Allegorical Rime, the Convivio, the De vulgari eloquentia and the Post-Exilic Rime Chapter 1 Compassionate Lady of the Casement and a Woman of Stone: The Pre-Exilic Rime Chapter 2 The Convivio ◆ Preliminary Remarks: Magnanimity, Possibility and Impossibility ◆ Course of the Argument ◆ Axes of Concern in the Convivio ◆ Language, Form and Function: An Essay in Beauty, Being and Becoming ◆ Conclusion: Being and Becoming as Yet in Waiting Chapter 3 The De vulgari eloquentia: Language, Literature and the Ontologization of Art Chapter 4 The Post-Exilic Rime PART IV The Final Years: The Commedia, the Political Letters and the Monarchia, the Questio, Cangrande and the Eclogues Chapter 1 The Commedia ◆ Standing Alone in Respect of That Which Matters Alone: Dante, Cino and the Solitary Way ◆ The Commedia à la lettre ◆ An Anthropology and Ethic: Love and Love-Harvesting ◆ The Dialectics of Being: A Difficult Dimensionality ◆ A Phenomenology of Existence: The Mood as Mediator ◆ Dante and Significant Journeying ◆ Immanent Eschatology and the Triumph of the Image Chapter 2 The Monarchia and the Political Letters Chapter 3 The Questio de situ aque et terre, the Letter to Cangrande della Scala and the Eclogues Afterword: A Coruscation of Delight Select Bibliography Index of Names