Discussions of the Divine comedy. [electronic resource] Edited with an introd. by Irma Brandeis.

from The first lecture to the Florentine Commune / Giovanni Boccaccio -- Letter to Boccaccio / Petrarch -- Discovery of the true Dante / Giambattista Vico -- Dante / Voltaire -- Dante / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- A parallel between Dante and Petrarch / Ugo Foscolo -- A discussion of Dante / Goethe -- Dante's landscape / John Ruskin -- Lecture on Dante / Giosue Carducci -- Genesis and composition of the Divine comedy / Michele Barbi -- Aesthetic Criteria / Benedetto Croce -- The substansive penchant / Luigi Malagoli -- Figural art in the Divine comedy / Erich Auerbach -- Hell / Philip H. Wicksteed -- The metaphor of the journey / Francis Fergusson -- The pattern at the center / Charles S. Singleton -- The transfiguration of Beatrice / Etienne Gilson -- The "three blessed ladies" of the Divine comedy / Jefferson B. Fletcher -- The symbolic imagination : a mediation on Dante's three mirrors / Allen Tate -- A talk on Dante / T.S. Eliot.