A South African Convivio with Dante

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A South African Convivio with Dante is written by Sonia Fanucchi and published by Firenze University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 8855184571 (ISBN 10) and 9788855184571 (ISBN 13).

This book offers a collection of South African university students’ written responses to the Commedia and scholars’ commentary on them. The students’ collection includes writings of all genres and subjects: prose, poetry, personal reflection, dialogue, non-fiction based on the first two cantiche of the Commedia. Some are autobiographical and others are fictional stories, but they all have in common a very personal (and South African) approach to Dante’s text. The scholarly essays of the second part are concerned with the unusual way in which Dante is appreciated by our youth: not as a remote figure only encountered in the hallways of the literature department, but as an intimate presence, a guide, a friend whose language is familiar and invites a response.