Time And The Crystal: Studies In Dante's Rime Petrose

Time And The Crystal: Studies In Dante's Rime Petrose
by Robert M. Durling And Ronald L. Martinez

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The Rime petrose, Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally acknowledged to be an important moment in his stylistic development. In this first full-length investigation of the poetics of the petrose and of their relation to the Divine Comedy, Durling and Martinez uncover much new material, especially from medieval science (astrology and mineralogy), philosophy, and theology. The authors argue that the Rime petrose represent a major turning point in Dante's conception of a "microcosmic poetics" that became the fundamental mode of the Commedia. They demonstrate how Dante here attempts his first full account of his relation to the universe as a whole.
This work offers many new insights into the intrinsic significance of these remarkable poems and their place in Dante's development--especially far-reaching are the implications for the interpretation of the Divine Comedy. The book will be of interest not only to students of Dante but also to intellectual historians, historians of science, students of poetics and poetic theory, and to all those interested in medieval literature.

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"A brilliant achievement. The range of learning is enormous, both in medieval scientific, philosophical lore and poetry and in the vast secondary literature on Dante. The authors bring the best traditions of Anglo-American formal analysis to bear upon the petrose, and produce powerful and original interpretations. . . . This will be a book that all serious readers of Dante's poetry--both of the petrose and the Comedy--will want to read."--David Quint, author of Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature

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"A brilliant achievement. The range of learning is enormous, both in medieval scientific, philosophical lore and poetry and in the vast secondary literature on Dante. The authors bring the best traditions of Anglo-American formal analysis to bear upon the petrose, and produce powerful and original interpretations. . . . This will be a book that all serious readers of Dante's poetry (both of the petrose and the Comedy (will want to read." (David Quint, author of Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature)

About the Author
Robert M. Durling is Professor of Italian and English Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of The Figure of the Poet in Renaissance Epic and translator of Petrarch's Lyric Poems. Ronald L. Martinez is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Minnesota and the author of numerous articles on Dante, Boccaccio, and Machiavelli.

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