de Vulgari Eloquentia: Dante's Book of Exile

by Marianne Shapiro

Book Overview

Written in 1303-05, when Dante was in political exile from his native Florence, De vulgari eloquentia addresses the problem of how to raise the Italian language to the status of Latin in the esteem of the literate public. It is the fullest and most important document concerning vernacular writing in the Middle Ages--indeed, the earliest work of literary criticism dealing with a vernacular language. Marianne Shapiro offers the most detailed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803242115
• ISBN13: 9780803242111
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"