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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Dante Alighieri , Andrew FrisardiPublisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 1.130kg ISBN: 9781316505021ISBN 10: 1316505022 Pages: 728 Publication Date: 13 January 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsTranslator's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the Convivio: a portrait; Dante and Lady Philosophia-Sapientia; Dante's quest for knowledge; Dante and nobility; Convivio: Book I; Book II; Book III; Book IV; Appendix: prose translations of the 'Three Canzoni'; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.Reviews'As well as a translation, [Frisardi] offers the most recent Italian text, ... along with a long thoughtful introduction and more than 200 pages of notes. ... The Convivio ... demands application and reflection. Frisardi provides serious, up-to-date help for the willing anglophone reader - substantial nourishment.' Peter Hainsworth, The Times Literary Supplement 'Andrew Frisardi's new dual-language translation situates itself carefully into [a] flourishing current of contemporary work, and makes a most welcome addition to the available literature. ... Frisardi's excellent edition-translation and its apparatus is to be welcomed for its concern to present afresh the Convivio to an anglophone readership and for the ways it foregrounds its importance and multifaceted character as one of Dante's most important 'other works'.' Simon Gilson, Speculum 'I welcome this book as one of the finest heralds of an upcoming, new phase in the life of Dante's Convivio.' Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Temenos Academy Review 'As well as a translation, [Frisardi] offers the most recent Italian text, … along with a long thoughtful introduction and more than 200 pages of notes. … The Convivio … demands application and reflection. Frisardi provides serious, up-to-date help for the willing anglophone reader - substantial nourishment.' Peter Hainsworth, The Times Literary Supplement 'Andrew Frisardi's new dual-language translation situates itself carefully into [a] flourishing current of contemporary work, and makes a most welcome addition to the available literature. … Frisardi's excellent edition-translation and its apparatus is to be welcomed for its concern to present afresh the Convivio to an anglophone readership and for the ways it foregrounds its importance and multifaceted character as one of Dante's most important 'other works'.' Simon Gilson, Speculum 'I welcome this book as one of the finest heralds of an upcoming, new phase in the life of Dante's Convivio.' Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Temenos Academy Review Author InformationOriginally from Boston, Andrew Frisardi lives in Central Italy. His work as a writer, translator, and independent scholar has been awarded with a Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, a Raiziss de Palchi Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, and a Hawthornden Literary Fellowship. His edition of Dante's Vita nova, with translation, introduction, and notes, was published in 2012. He has also published translations of the poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti and Franco Loi. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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