Dante and death in late-medieval France

‘Although Dante was known by name in fifteenth-century France, his influence was scant.’¹ The Dante Encyclopedia’s entry for ‘Dante in France’ offers an unpromising opening for thinking about and with Dante in late-medieval French literature. I do not argue here for hitherto grossly underestimated i...

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第一著者: Swift, H
その他の著者: Havely, N
フォーマット: Book section
言語:English
出版事項: Legenda 2021
その他の書誌記述
要約:‘Although Dante was known by name in fifteenth-century France, his influence was scant.’¹ The Dante Encyclopedia’s entry for ‘Dante in France’ offers an unpromising opening for thinking about and with Dante in late-medieval French literature. I do not argue here for hitherto grossly underestimated influence, but do wish to consider carefully how we retrospectively frame reception of and responses to the Commedia in particular. I should argue, for instance, for ‘scattered’ rather than ‘scant’ — meagre findings depend upon the sources in which one has searched, and, for the fifteenth century, there is much currently under-studied literature that was nonetheless...