Dante and Petrarch in the Garden of Language

by Francesca Southerden

In Dante's Paradiso, the first garden dweller, Adam, speaks of the language he 'used and shaped' (Par. XXVI, 114) and affirms the rather unstable, yet malleable, character of the vernacular tongue, which is tied both to natural variation and to pleasure. Examining the ways in which the garden and language are intertwined in the works of Dante and Petrarch, this book considers the kind of language these authors used and shaped, especially in their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839541423
• ISBN13: 9781839541421
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Legenda
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"