Accounting for Dante – Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval Italy

Accounting for Dante\nby Justin Steinberg\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Justin Steinberg\nTitle: Accounting for Dante\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literature: history and criticism\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268041229\nISBN-10: 0268041229\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn Accounting for Dante, Justin Steinberg reexamines Dante''s relation to his contemporary public, an audience that included those poets who responded to Dante''s early work as well as the readers who first copied, preserved, and circulated his poetry. Based on original research of manuscripts and documents, Steinberg''s study reveals in particular the importance of professional, urban classesnamely, merchants and notariesas cultivators of early Italia.