Didactic Sources of Dante's Commedia
FAIN: FT-10848-70
Joseph P. Williman
Catholic University of America (Washington, DC 20064-0001)
Study of Dante's Commedia in light of Latin and vernacular works of the thirteenth century. Dante adapted his techniques from these works. Study to show interdependence of early vernacular and Latin, of imaginative and didactic (instructive) literature.