Dante's Multitudes

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A critical addition to Dante studies that illuminates the poet's disruptive impact within Italian culture and foregrounds Barolini's marked contribution to the field. In Dante's Multitudes , the newest addition to the renowned William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature, Teodolinda Barolini gathers sixteen of her essays exploring the revolutionary character of Dante's work. Embracing the Vita Nuova , De vulgari eloquentia , Convivio , Epistles , Monarchia , and Rime , and of course the Divine Comedy , these essays together feature the many facets of the poet's enduring legacy. Dante's Multitudes showcases the poet's embrace of multiplicity, difference, and disruption in five parts, each with its own general focus. It begins with an introductory essay on method and the use of history in order to set the stage for the expert analyses that follow. Barolini treats various topics in Dante studies, including sexualized and racialized others in the Comedy , Dante's unorthodox conception of limbo, his celebration of metaphysical difference within the paradoxical unity of the Paradiso , and his use of Aristotle to think disruptively about wealth and society,

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