Giovanni Pascoli

Dark Minerva

Prolegomena: The Moral Construction of Dante's Divine Comedy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dark Minerva by Giovanni Pascoli was first published in 1898. (The original title in Italian is Minerva Oscura.) It is an impassioned, often poetic, but also scholarly and critical investigation into Dante Alighieri¿s Divine Comedy. As Pascoli says in the Prolegomena, "To know and to describe Dante¿s thought, will it ever be possible? He eclipses in the profundity of his thought: he intentionally eclipses. I have already set my heart on following him in one of those disappearances in which, after having said ¿Look,¿ he immediately leaves us in the dark. This time I said to myself, if I see, I will always see; if I understand him in this place, I will understand him everywhere else." Giovanni Pascoli (AD 1855-1912) was a poet and Italian classical scholar, fluent in Greek, Latin, Italian and also English. He was a student of Giosuè Carducci, the Italian classicist poet and Nobel prize winner.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sunny Lou Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9781955392358
• ISBN-10: 1955392358
• Artikelnr.: 68182366

Autorenporträt

Giovanni Pascoli was born in San Mauro Pascoli on 31 December 1855. He was an Italian poet, classical scholar and an emblematic figure of Italian literature in the late nineteenth century. He was, together with Gabriele D'Annunzio, the greatest Italian decadent poet. From 1897 to 1903 he taught Latin at the University of Messina, and then in Pisa. He became professor of Italian literature at the University of Bologna, taking the position of Giosuè Carducci when he retired. In 1912, Pascoli died of liver cancer at the age of 56 in Bologna.