The Invention of Dante's Commedia
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 195pp. from front flap: "Centuries before and after Dante's composition of the Commedia, European pilgrims on the greatest journey of their lives sailed to Egypt, retraced the path of the Exodus to Jerusalem, and then voyaged to the eternal city of Rome. Their travels carried them to remote regions beyond the sphere of Latin culture; consequently, a full knowledge of their once-famous pilgrimage has been lost to Dante scholarship. Here for the first time is a richly documented account of how that great circle pilgrimage served, in the Roman Church's first Jubilee Pilgrimage Year of 1300, as the figural model for Dante's pilgrimage beyond life in the Commedia." Book VG: ex libris bookplate front paste down, toning/offset to endpapers, light foxing. text clean, binding tight. / DJ VG-: mild age toning, mild edge wear, NOT clipped. Item #2278
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