Unusually, the book examines Dante's career as a whole offering an important point of access not only to the Dantean oeuvre, but also to the history and theory of authorship in the larger Italian and European tradition.

The book brings to culmination two decades of a major scholar's thinking about some of the most important figures and questions that shaped the Renaissance, with emphasis on the question of history, both the historical context of literature ...

The series offers annual lectures by distinguished scholars on topics related to Professor Bernardo s primary fields of interest medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, with a particular focus on Dante Studies, and intellectual ...

These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.

Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74) was a scholar and poet who helped shape the literature of his time and influenced the development of Renaissance humanism.