Experiencing the Afterlife by Manuele Gragnolati PAPERBACK 9780268029654

Experiencing the Afterlife\nby Manuele Gragnolati\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Manuele Gragnolati\nTitle: Experiencing the Afterlife\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literature: history and criticism\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268029654\nISBN-10: 0268029652\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nExperiencing the Afterlife provides the first sustained analysis of popular, vernacular depictions of the afterlife written in Italy before the Divine Comedy by authors such as Uguccione da Lodi, Giacomino da Verona, and Bonvesin da la Riva. Manuele Gragnolati uses his readings of these poets to provide a new interpretation of Dante's work. Combining elements from several disciplines, he investigates the richness of high medieval eschat.