Manuele Gragnolati provides the first sustained analysis of popular, vernacular depictions of the afterlife written in Italy before the Divine Comedy by authors such as Uguccione da Lodi, Giacomino da
Manuele Gragnolati provides the first sustained analysis of popular, vernacular depictions of the afterlife written in Italy before the Divine Comedy by authors such as Uguccione da Lodi, Giacomino da
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is best known for his epic poem la Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), written in what became standardized Italian. In Convivio and De Vulgari Eloquentia, Dante treated te
Scholars of Italian and medieval literature take Dante's discourse of desire as a platform from which to look at medieval concepts of desire in all their multiplicity, fragmentation, and interrelation
