 | Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange: Authorship, Manuscript Culture, and the Making of the ''Vita Nova'' Subjects: Dante Alighieri 1265–1321. Vita nuova; Dante Alighieri 1265–1321 -- Criticism Textual; Literature and society -- Italy -- History -- To 1500; Manuscripts Medieval -- Italy -- History -- To 1500; Italy -- Civilization -- 1268–1559; BISAC: LITERARY CRIT; This is the first book-length study to explore the question of poetry and genre by investigating, through an analysis of both textual and manuscript evidence, the ways in which Dante redefines the medieval theory of authorship as defined by Medieval scholars, among whom Bonaventure was the most prominent one. Todorović Jelena : Jelena Todorović is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
