The Cambridge Companion to Dante (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

 
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The Cambridge Companion to Dante has been fully updated to take account of the most up-to-date scholarship and includes three new essays on Dante's works. This new edition will ensure that the Companion continues to be the most useful single volume for new generations of students of Dante.

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  • Media: Paperback Book, 336 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 05, 2007)
  • Edition: 2
  • ISBN-10: 0521605814
  • ISBN-13: 9780521605816
  • Dimensions: 5.91 x 8.9 x 0.87 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.19 lbs
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  • Rating Helpful for scholars and just plain readers  May 28, 2001 (25 of 28 found this helpful)

    This companion is an excellent guide to Dante's life, work, and thought. It is especially useful for those readers of the Comedy who want more information on specific allusions than most footnoted editions can supply. It is also helpful for an understanding of the complex political and religious turmoils in which Dante was embroiled, and which showed up continuously throughout his work.

  • Rating Slightly dated scholarship for the penny-wise  Jul 23, 2007 (7 of 7 found this helpful)

    This is an able commentary to Dante, but make sure you are clear on which edition you are purchasing: the most recent (as of this review) is a March 2007 version. Sufficient edits, insights and scholarly arguments (let's not quite call them developments) exist in the 14 years between publications to make it worth being certain what you're buying before you buy.

    Then again - the 1993 edition is available used for under three bucks, while the 2007 edition ranges from $25 to $50. So... choose your priority.

  • Rating Kindle ed. : Worth every penny  Feb 24, 2008 (2 of 3 found this helpful)

    The endnotes don't link, but that isn't really an issue because they are at the end of each chapter and 90% of the time only give reference to other books. I know that is important, but not to the actual reading. I just bookmark the page as I get to it if it contains a book I want to reference. Or I highlight, add note ect. The book has a couple of format issues, but really small, gaps in strange places, line breaks out of place. But these are few and far between. It is a great collection of essays on the Divine Comedy that really increases the understanding of the readings. I highly recommend it. I don't have the paper copy, only the Kindle, and I am very glad to have it. It is in my top 5 favorite Amazon purchases.

  • Rating The Cambridge Companion to Dante - Inferno  Sep 26, 2005 (10 of 17 found this helpful)

    Dante criticism has a life of its own: call it vegetable. Then again, this has been the case almost since Dante first wrote his Commedia. Though not the best text for one intending to leap into the Inferno for the first time, this canto by canto commentary, an able addition to the mountain of Dante scholarship, provides clear, interesting, scholarly help to anyone who has spent time with Dante as scholar or teacher or interested reader.

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