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Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Richardson | Gloria Fromm suggests that Interim, like The Tunnel, is influenced by Dante
's Divine Comedy. She observes, for instance, that the swaggering, disreputable Spanish Jew Mendizabal, a devilish but also comic character... |
Textual Production | Sally Purcell | Her further translations included many poems which were printed in her own volumes of verse, as well as selections from Charles of Orleans
and Gaspara Stampa
, Literature in the Vernacular (a rendering of Dante |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Anne Porden | |
Textual Features | C. E. Plumptre | Bruno's conversion from Catholicism to Pantheism is described in a sexual analogy: Night after night he would steal out, moved by the same thoughts, penetrated by the same rapture . . . The more ardently... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Petrarch | His father, named Petracco or Petraccolo, had been a clerk of the court in Florence before being expelled by the party of the Black Guelphs
(who also expelled Dante
). Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. “The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent. |
Friends, Associates | Petrarch | At the age of eight Petrarch saw Dante
for the first and only time. One of the most important friendships of his life was that with Boccaccio
. “The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent. under Dante “The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent. |
Literary responses | Sarah Pearson | The Sheffield Register carried two poems (a sonnet and an ode) in September which welcome and praise this volume. Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Sarah/Susanna Pearson, Harriet Downing. |
Textual Production | Margaret Oliphant | MO
published The Makers of Florence: Dante
, Giotto
, Savonarola
; and Their City. “Palmer’s Index to the Times”. Historical Newspapers Online. Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research. 159: 251 |
Textual Production | Margaret Oliphant | |
Textual Features | Julia O'Faolain | This novel is set in a villa in Tuscany, which is known for having been the setting for a sixteenth-century (published) dialogue on love. At the present moment of history a comparable dialogue is... |
Education | Kathleen Nott | Meanwhile KN
read for herself outside the syllabus while she was at Oxford, particularly Dante
and French literature, and composed intellectual biographies of philosophers like Hume
and Kant
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 66465 (24 February 1999): 23 Nott, Kathleen. A Soul in the Quad. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 6 |
death | Charlotte Mew | She shared a tombstone with her sister Anne
, to which she had added a line from Dante
's Purgatorio, translated as Cast down the seed of weeping and attend. Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research. 312 |
Education | Flora Macdonald Mayor | Although FMM
's father was, for the most part, more concerned with her fragile health than her academic development, the twin sisters received some home-schooling from their mother to quite a high level, since she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hilary Mantel | She begins with a Dantesque
evocation of a mid-life questioning of potential never realised. At this stage, she says, You think of the children you might have had but didn't. When the midwife says, It's... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Roxburghe Lothian | The novel relates the love between Dante Alighieri
, scholar and poet, and the aristocrat Beatrice Portinari
, and the way her early death inspired his work, particularly the Divina Commedia. The political and... |
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