{"product_id":"9780822399407","title":"TEST1 Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance","description":"Dante's \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e played a dual role in its relation to Italian Renaissance culture, actively shaping the fabric of that culture and, at the same time, being shaped by it. This productive relationship is examined in \u003ci\u003eCommentary and Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e, Deborah Parker's thorough compendium on the reception of Dante's chief work. By studying the social and historical circumstances under which commentaries on Dante were produced, the author clarifies the critical tradition of commentary and explains the ways in which this important body of material can be used in interpreting Dante's poem.\u003cbr\u003eParker begins by tracing the criticism of Dante commentaries from the nineteenth century to the present and then examines the tradition of commentary from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.  She shows how the civic, institutional, and social commitments of commentators shaped their response to the \u003ci\u003eComedy\u003c\/i\u003e, and how commentators tried to use the poem as an authoritative source for various kinds of social legitimation. Parker discusses how different commentators dealt with a deeply political section of the poem: the damnation of Brutus and Cassius. \u003cbr\u003eThe scope and importance of \u003ci\u003eCommentary and Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e will command the attention of a broad group of scholars, including Italian specialists on Dante, late medievalists, students and professionals in early modern European literature, bibliographers, critical theorists, historians of literary criticism and theory, and cultural and intellectual historians.","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119353708784,"sku":"9780822399407","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822399407_p0.jpg?v=1763753147","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822399407","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}