Italian studies

Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins

John C. Barnes & Daragh O'Connell, editors

This volume opens with the bold suggestion that the seven deadly sins constitute a key to the structure of Inferno and Paradiso as well as Purgatorio. It ends w…

War and peace in Dante

John C. Barnes & Daragh O'Connell, editors

This volume opens with John Barnes exploring how Dante’s views on and experience of war are reflected in his literary works. Joseph Canning, addressing Dante’s …

Nature and art in Dante

Daragh O'Connell & Jennifer Petrie, editors

This volume opens with an essay in which Jennifer Petrie explores Dante’s own use of the term arte, before applying the findings of that exploration to the ques…

Language and style in Dante

John C. Barnes & Michaelangelo Zaccarello editors

This volume opens with an essay where “style” is viewed medievally, as a near-synonym of “genre”: Zygmunt Barański argues that fully to appreciate the presence …

Medieval Italy, medieval and early modern women

Essays in honour of Christine Meek

Conor Kostick editor

This book pays tribute to Professor Christine Meek with sixteen essays that present the latest research in the evolution of Italian society towards the Renaissa…

Dante and his literary precursors

John C. Barnes & Jennifer Petrie, editors

This volume explores connections between Dante and literary contexts of periods earlier than his own, from the pre-Christian era to the thirteenth century.

Ess…

Dante and the Church

Paolo Acquaviva & Jennifer Petrie, editors

The topic of Dante's attitude to the Church has exercised scholars since the 14th century, with the Reformation adding fuel to the question. The essays containe…

Dante and the human body

John C. Barnes & Jennifer Petrie, editors

The essays in this volume explore Dante’s interest in the human body from various intellectual standpoints, the contributors being a mixture of historians, lite…

Italian culture

Interactions, transpositions, translations

Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin Corinna Salvadori & John Scattergood editors

At a seminar in April 2002 at Trinity College Dublin, marking the retirement of Professor Corinna Salvadori, former students, recent graduates, colleagues and f…

Patterns in Dante

Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin & Jennifer Petrie, editors

Interesting collection of essays relating to Dante’s works that offers fresh literary interpretations, concluding with an extensive index of references to Dante…

Italian novels of peasant crisis, 1930–1950

Bonfires in the night

Brian Moloney

This book brings together the insights of historians and critics to examine the account given in a range of novels of the effect on peasant society of Fascist r…

Dante Metamorphoses

Episodes in a literary afterlife

Eric Haywood, editor

These essays show how Dante’s Commedia was appropriated across Europe through the ages, beginning in 15th-century Spain and finishing in 19th-century Italy. Pub…