Dante Alighieri

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Standard Name: Dante Alighieri

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Anna Akhmatova
Anna was with Valeriya Tyulpanova , a neighbour and a life-long friend; Nikolay was with his brother Dmitry. Nikolay fell madly in love with the young poetess, but she apparently did not share his romantic...
Textual Production Sylvia Beach
Though the essays were solicited and overseen by Joyce , SB did much of the editorial work and designed the cover.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
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Contributions included Samuel Beckett 's Dante . . . Bruno , Vico ...
Intertextuality and Influence Samuel Beckett
The publisher's blurb, talking about a new independent spirit at work and humour, the last weapon against despair, was remarkably percipient.
Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
13
Like Beckett's other early prose works in English, these stories are deeply Joycean
Textual Features Gertrude Bell
Hafiz, who mixed orthodox Islam with Sufism, is considered heretical for his ideas about God's nature and for his celebration of drinking alcohol as a religious practice. GB was especially impressed by his love poetry...
Occupation Giovanni Boccaccio
Like Dante before him, GB held various public offices in Florence and was sent to other cities on diplomatic business.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Occupation Giovanni Boccaccio
GB 's writings began with Filocolo, a retelling of the traditional Floris and Blanchefleur love-story written between 1338 and 1400. Other narratives were Ameto, a pastoral-allegorical novel, Teseida (which contains the story re-used...
Intertextuality and Influence Eavan Boland
Here she retains her focus on history and on women's lives. The relation between the two is paradoxical. Mise Eire (meaning I am Ireland)
McEvoy, Anne. Conversation about Eavan Boland with Isobel Grundy.
opens: I won't go back to it.
Boland, Eavan. Outside History. Norton.
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Yet in...
Intertextuality and Influence Christine Brooke-Rose
This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen of a great German contemporary of Austen:...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Byron
Reflections on her own life are intertwined throughout CB 's journey, as she writes on her childhood experience of Catholicism, and her roles as mother, wife, lover, and Irish woman writer.
Byron, Catherine. Out of Step. Loxwood Stoneleigh.
passim
She deals trenchantly...
Textual Features Mary Cholmondeley
MC details the various manuscripts left by Hester: a journal describing everything she read, a journal about bee-keeping, and a notebook containing brief biographies of important figures, as well as notebooks of quotations, poetry, and...
Textual Features Caroline Clive
Much of this poem is Dante sque in its style.
Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press.
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Education Florence Dixie
FD 's first experience at a convent school (in France) lasted just one week. She later wrote, To her dying day Ijain will never forget that dreary time when she said good-bye to Rorie...
Occupation Gustave Doré
GD 's work was cosmopolitan. In addition to writers from other European countries like Dante and Cervantes , he illustrated Milton and Coleridge , and did a series of engravings of London for a work...
Dedications T. S. Eliot
It was dedicated to Jean Verdenal , who had recently been killed at the Dardanelles, with some lines from Dante 's Purgatorio. In addition to its title poem, The Love Song of J...
Education Margaret Gatty
Margaret and her sister were not sent to school, but were educated chiefly by her father. One important influence on Margaret was their bachelor uncle William Ryder (who first got her started on drawing). Another...

Timeline

From about 1314 to 1321: Dante Alighieri composed, for circulation...

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From about 1314 to 1321

Dante Alighieri composed, for circulation in manuscript, his religiousallegoryLa divina commedia, comprising the Inferno, Purgatorio, and the Paradiso.

About 1349-1351: Giovanni Boccaccio worked at his cycle of...

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About 1349-1351

Giovanni Boccaccio worked at his cycle of tales entitled (from the fact that the stories are told over the course of ten days) the Decameron. It was first translated into English in 1620.

1495: In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence,...

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1495

In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence, Italy, Girolamo Savonarola destroyed texts by Ovid , Dante , Boccaccio and others.

1816: Leigh Hunt published his narrative poem The...

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1816

Leigh Hunt published his narrative poemThe Story of Rimini.

1826-7: William Blake published his last work as...

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1826-7

William Blake published his last work as an engraver: illustrations to Dante 's Divine Comedy.

December 1894: The Ashendene Press was established by Charles...

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December 1894

The Ashendene Press was established by Charles Harry St John Hornby and Emery Walker at Bayford in Hertfordshire; Walker and Sydney Cockerell designed its Subiaco type in 1900.

Texts

Dante Alighieri,. Cantica I: Hell. Translator Sayers, Dorothy L., Penguin, 1949.
Dante Alighieri,. Cantica II: Purgatory. Translator Sayers, Dorothy L., Penguin, 1955.
Dante Alighieri,. Cantica III: Paradise. Translators Sayers, Dorothy L. and Barbara Reynolds, Penguin, 1962.
Dante Alighieri,. The Divine Comedy. I: Hell. Translator Sayers, Dorothy L., Penguin Books, 1957.