From: Patsloane-AT-aol.com Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 00:46:47 -0500 (EST) Subject: PLC: Dante & Cervantes In a message dated 97-11-22 00:22:36 EST, you write: > Well, bear in mind that Cerv is working in a Catholic country, center of > Loyola and devotionalism etc. in 16/17C's. Dante was much better known in > Spain in 16/17C than in England for example -- and even a Milton knew > Dante's work of course, though Dante did not really become as well-known in > anglophone countries as he is now till the Romantic period, starting in the > very late 18th and early 19th cents.... > > Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing-AT-nyu.edu or downingg-AT-is2.nyu.edu > > > Could you give a brief critical rundown on Dante's early reception. Thanks if you can. With all those literary allusions, and originally no annotation, he must have had a really small audience at the beginning. pat sloane --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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