Dante: de Vulgari Eloquentia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521400640)

De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practicing poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Steven Botterill here offers the only Latin-English parallel-text edition of an important early work by the author of the Divine Comedy, and the only English translation with thorough and up-to-date notes and introductory material.

Author: Dante Alighieri
ISBN-10: 0521400643
ISBN-13: 9780521400640
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/10/1996
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.60d