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Dante's Second Love

The Originality and the Contexts of the Convivio
Society for Italian Studies Occassional Papers, Volume 2
ISBN: 978 0 952590 12 5
March 1997
Paperback
82 pages
240 x 167 x 4mm

Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile, Dante's 'second love'; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of the third and fourth treatises of the Convivio. An excursus comments on the Donna Gentile's fate at the hands of scholars.