Dante: De vulgari eloquentia

Dante author Steven Botterill editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:10th Oct '96

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The first Latin-English text of Dante's treatise on language, together with notes and introduction.

De vulgari eloquentia is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Steven Botterill offers the only Latin-English edition of Dante's treatise, together with notes and introduction.De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Its opening consideration of language as a sign-system includes foreshadowings of twentieth-century semiotics, and later sections contain the first serious effort at literary criticism based on close analytical reading since the classical era. Steven Botterill here offers an accurate Latin text and a readable English translation of the treatise, together with notes and introductory material, thus making available a work which is relevant not only to Dante's poetry and the history of Italian literature, but to our whole understanding of late medieval poetics, linguistics, and literary practice.

"This useful and readable new translation is certainly a welcome addition to the literature on Dante for both undergraduates and scholars." Choice

ISBN: 9780521400640

Dimensions: 223mm x 143mm x 16mm

Weight: 300g

136 pages