Dante and the Franciscans: Poverty and the Papacy in the 'Commedia'

Nick Havely examines the connections between Dante, the Franciscans and the papacy in respect to fundamental aspects of the Commedia. Shedding new light on Dante's poem, he offers a detailed account of the Franciscans in late Medieval and early Renaissance Italy, which will be of interest to scholars of church history as well as literary scholars.

Author: Nick Havely
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/09/2009
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780521099042

About the Author
Havely, Nick: - Nicholas Havely is senior lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He is the translator of Chaucer's Boccaccio (1980, 1992); editor of The House of Fame (1994), Chaucer's Dream Poetry (1997) and Dante's Modern Afterlife (1998); and author of numerous articles on Italian and English medieval literature, including the chapter on `Literature in Italian, French and English' in volume VI of The New Cambridge Medieval History (2000).

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