Dante: de Vulgari Eloquentia

by Dante Alighieri and MR Dante Alighieri

Book Overview

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 practising poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Its opening consideration of language as a sign-system includes foreshadowings of twentieth-century semiotics, and later sections contain the first serious effort at literary criticism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521409233
• ISBN13: 9780521409230
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Readable

Did some grad school penance with this one, and enjoyed it, both the introduction and the translation. Not qualified to judge the translation as such, but found it very readable. The whole thing was just very accessible without the edition seeming to apologize for itself or anything like that.