Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages

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Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages is written by Manuele Gragnolati and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0367602474 (ISBN 10) and 9780367602475 (ISBN 13).

This volume takes Dante's rich and multifaceted discourse of desire, from the Vita Nova to the Commedia, as a point of departure in investigating medieval concepts of desire in all their multiplicity, fragmentation and interrelation. As well as offering several original contributions on this fundamental aspect of Dante's work, it seeks to situate the Florentine more effectively within the broader spectrum of medieval culture and to establish greater intellectual exchange between Dante scholars and those from other disciplines. The volume is also notable for its open to diverse critical and methodological approaches, and explores the extent to which modern theoretical paradigms can be used to shed light upon the Middle Ages. Book jacket.