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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... |
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 | 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 |
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... |
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 | |
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. |
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. |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Anne Porden | |
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 | Dorothy Richardson | Gloria Fromm
links The Tunnel with Dante
's Divine Comedy, because it is divided into thirty-three chapters (the number of Dante's cantos), and contains similar repeated phrases, such as the inner circle,the outer... |
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 | Anne Ridler | AR
's earliest translations were from Italian, of Dante
and Eugenio Montale
. She first thought of translating a libretto for performance when she was asked to do so by Jane Glover
, who later... |
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