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Dante's Second Love: The Originality and the Contexts of the Convivio (Society for Italian Studies Occasional Papers)
Dante's Second Love The Originality and the Contexts of the Convivio - Society for Italian Studies Occasional Papers Author:Peter Dronke Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile, Dante's 'second love'; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of the third and fourth treatises of the Convivio. An excursus comments on the Donna Gentile's fate at the hands of scholars.