The Dante Encyclopedia

The Dante Encyclopedia is packed with, to use the words of its preface, “a wealth of information and critical opinion concerning the life and works of Dante”. The “primary goal” of the volume “is to provide readers with a broad base of knowledge elucidating not only the full corpus of the pet’s literary and expository achievement but also the cultural and intellectual context in which it is set, in an easily and rapidly accessible format”. The clearly written preface outlines the editions, translations and other texts cited in the work. A detailed abbreviations listing is followed by the alphabetically arranged...