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Il sommo Poeta

Seven hundred years after Dante’s death
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September 2021, no. 435

The Oxford Handbook of Dante by Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca Southerden

Oxford University Press, £125 hb, 776 pp

Il sommo Poeta

Seven hundred years after Dante’s death
by
September 2021, no. 435
Posthumous portrait of Dante Alighieri by Sandro Botticelli, 1495 (edited image/Wikimedia Commons)
Posthumous portrait of Dante Alighieri by Sandro Botticelli, 1495 (edited image/Wikimedia Commons)

With its finely honed critical readings and ‘transversal connections’, The Oxford Handbook of Dante is a timely and masterful collection of forty-four chapters presenting contemporary critical insights from a broad choice of intellectual fields that range from Italian and European perspectives to Anglo-American approaches. Highlighting Dante’s expansive outreach over the centuries, the editors, Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca Southerden, have assembled an impressive array of scholarly voices whose contributions offer a robust critical collection not exclusively intended for specialist readers.

Diana Glenn reviews 'The Oxford Handbook of Dante' edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca Southerden

The Oxford Handbook of Dante

by Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca Southerden

Oxford University Press, £125 hb, 776 pp

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