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Dante: De vulgari eloquentia - Dante, and Botterill, Steven (Edited and translated by)
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De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Its opening consideration of language as a sign-system includes foreshadowings of twentieth-century semiotics, and later sections contain the first serious effort at literary criticism based on close analytical reading since the classical era. Steven ...

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Dante: De vulgari eloquentia 2005, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521409230

Trade paperback

Dante: De vulgari eloquentia 1996, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521400640

Hardcover