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Dante and the Franciscans

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Dante and the Franciscans

Dante and the Franciscans

Poverty and the Papacy in the 'Commedia'
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Nick Havely, University of York
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September 2004
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9780521833059

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    Nick Havely examines the connections between Dante, the Franciscans and the papacy in respect to fundamental aspects of the Commedia. Shedding new light on Dante's poem, he offers a detailed account of the Franciscans in late Medieval and early Renaissance Italy, which will be of interest to scholars of church history as well as literary scholars.

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    "Readers of Dante, historians of Franciscanism, and students and scholars of medieval Italian culture in the broadest sense will all find that this book has much to offer."
    -S. Botterill, University of California, Berkeley, CHOICE

    "...not only timely but also timeless. [A] thorough and satisfying study.... meticulous research ... marvelous writing style ... essential reading not only for Dante scholars but also for scholars of medieval religion, politics and culture."
    -Quaderni d'italianistica

    "Havely has shown convincingly how pervasive the influence of the literature surrounding these controversies is on teh Commedia and how essential for an understanding of the poem's recurrent concern with papal power and evangelical poetry. One of the book's most original assertionsi s that the authority of evangelical poverty is closely intertwined with the authority of prophecy and hence with Dante's concern with teh authority of his own poetic voice."- Penn Szittya, Georgetown University

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    • Published: September 2004
    • Format: Hardback
    • ISBN: 9780521833059
    • Length: 232 pages
    • Dimensions: 235 × 159 × 19 mm
    • Weight: 0.446kg
    • Contains: 6 b/w illus.
    • Availability: Available

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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • List of illustrations
    • Acknowledgements
    • Note on citations, translations and manuscript sources
    • List of abbreviations
    • Introduction
    • 1. From shame to honour: Tuscan and Franciscan poverty
    • 2. Inferno: avarice and authority'
    • 3. Purgatorio: poverty in spirit
    • 4. Paradiso: poverty and authority
    • Epilogue
    • Appendices
    • Bibliography
    • Index.

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    Nick Havely , University of York

    Nicholas Havely is senior lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He is the translator of Chaucer's Boccaccio (1980, 1992); editor of The House of Fame (1994), Chaucer's Dream Poetry (1997) and Dante's Modern Afterlife (1998); and author of numerous articles on Italian and English medieval literature, including the chapter on `Literature in Italian, French and English' in volume VI of The New Cambridge Medieval History (2000).

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