Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation

by William Franke

Modelling knowledge as revelation and theology as poetry, this powerful new reading of the Vita nuova not only challenges Dante scholars to reconsider the book's speculative emphases but also offers the general reader an accessible yet penetrating exploration of some of the Western tradition's most far-reaching ideas surrounding love and knowledge. Dante's 'little book', included in full here in an original parallel translation, captures in its first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009013815
• ISBN13: 9781009013819
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"