Vergil in the Middle Ages

by Domenico Pietro Antonio Comparetti and Edward Felix Mendelssohn Benecke

Book Overview

From its first complete Italian printing in 1872 up to the present day, Domenico Comparetti's Vergil in the Middle Ages has been acknowledged as a masterpiece, regarded by some critics as "a true and proper history of European consciousness from antiquity to Dante." Treating Vergil's poetry as a foundation of Latin European identity, Comparetti seeks to give a complete history of the medieval conception of the preeminent poet. Scholars of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691026785
• ISBN13: 9780691026787
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"