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Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Gut. 184 Seiten Good. Ex-library with usual markings. Clean pages. Cover slighlty soiled. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 510.

Original publisher's sewn light-brown paperback, black title spine and frontcover, small 4to: frontispiece portrait, footnotes & references, bibliography, index, passages from Date cited, table of contents. Bumb lift corner. Firm copy. Volume II: Supplement Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies.

Originalleinen laminiert. Condition: Gut. IX, 184 S. / p. Papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - PREFACE -- Dante was a Christian poet living in a Christian age, and to speak of him as a pagan thinker is patently absurd. Yet it is no less absurd to see in him only the mystic, or the courtly lover, or the Italian patriot, or the poet of Scholasticism. Italian and Christian, Dante was a patriot of ancient Rome: the poet-prophet of a city which produced great poets and good citizens, pacified the world, and thus prepared it to receive the Redeemer. In his ninth Epistle, Dante refers to himself as a man preaching justice. The contention to be made here is that the unifying idea, the poetic impulse which brings the work of Dante into focus, is his pellucid vision of the perfection of Roman justice and its role in the world of men. -- In other words, this is a study of Dantes humanism. But this use of a hazy term requires a cautionary statement. By humanism, I mean only the glorification of ancient culture and of the classical heritage. Yet in italy, before Dante and since, humanism as such was more than a return to classical forms and classical authors. Distinct from cultural revivals which took place in other countries, distinct also from Roman revivals in the Catholic Church and the German Empire, it had a political character of its own. It was a yearning for a new life which was to be a restoration of the ancient Roman way of being, of an entire civilization which would put to shame the barbarians across the Alps. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.