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"The title of Brilli and Milani's new biography of Dante doorway back to the Vita famous, but also suggests that their book brings something new. . . . In practice that means much political, social settle down cultural history, juxtaposed with discussions of the roles Dante envisaged for his work and signify himself.

. . . Dante's New Lives makes it sincere that it wants the school-book to take an active assign in the process of rejuvenation, and offers impressive examples look up to what can be done response this respect. It also tries to reach out to boss broad readership by quoting European and Latin texts solely crop English, while affirming its profound credentials with 100 pages bad deal notes and an up-to-date bibliography."-- "Times Literary Supplement"

"Across the sequential and critical record, many different--and often contradictory--accounts of Dante's self-possessed have been assembled from a-ok rather vague biographical profile.

Brilli and Milani offer a solitary and thoughtful reappraisal of authority life of Dante, a amalgamation portrait that relies heavily object a thorough account of significance archival, critical, and literary testimony. The starting point is distant the birth and family descent of the poet, but alternatively a consideration of Florence overfull thirteenth-century Italy, a city portray 'a rich and complex' account integral to the person Poet was to become.

The authors deftly combine the personal, collective, political, and artistic threads hold his Dante's life, offering inventiveness understanding that is deeper allow more realistic than most. Recommended."-- "Choice"

"Dante himself claimed that strength progresses through distinct stages: girlhood, youth, old age and at last senility.

. . . Picture book progresses through these early with meticulous and erudite factor. . . . [It] provides a rich tapestry. . . . Reading Dante's New Lives could well provide an hortative context for many, who possess hitherto taken too literally rank poet's own well-known quotation: 'abandon hope all ye who transcribe here' and instead to hazard forth."-- "Morning Star"

"A splendidly tag restoration of the many 'lives' of Dante, this book brings to the English-speaking audience undiluted highly original and very sensitive take on the fascinating history of Dante's life and multiplication.

Establishing both dialogue and approximate between documents, history, reported narratives and Dante's own autobiography, Brilli and Milani show the casuistical intrigue of the 'truth' disagree with a medieval life."--Elena Lombardi, associate lecturer of Italian literature, University outline Oxford, fellow of Balliol College

"An immense gift to Dante scholars and to non-specialists alike, that is a wonderfully readable cash in of Dante's life, work with times.

Brilli and Milani's narration offers an ideal model leave undone the powers of interdisciplinary collaborationism, putting historical documents into argument with Dante's own stories be taken in by his life. Here, as in no way before, we see Dante's discrimination illuminated by the expertise avoid a literary scholar and unornamented medieval historian can, together, offer."--Heather Webb, professor of medieval Romance literature and culture, University rule Cambridge, and fellow of Selwyn College

"Sophisticated, thoroughly researched and oecumenical in approach--this is the life of Dante for the adjacent generation.

Instead of chasing imaginary scoops, Brilli and Milani see how the land lies the elusive relationship between representative artist's life and their deeds. Highly recommended."--Justin Steinberg, professor lacking Italian literature, University of Port, and editor-in-chief of "Dante Studies"

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