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Identifier	Thesis 1723
Author	Donato, Orazio
Title	Dante's Apprenticeship: Vita Nuova, De Vulgari Eloquentia, Convivio
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2003
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	Dante Alighieri wrote the Divina Commedia, a poem of enormous importance in world literature. How did Dante become such a great poet and how did he create such an incredible masterpiece? His personal and political experiences, education and minor works led him to the Divina Commedia. This thesis analyzes Dante's biography, and three of his minor works: the Vita Nuova, the De Vulgari Eloquentia and the Convivio, as his apprenticeship to the Divina Commedia. It will show that the content and objectives of the Divina Commedia are the result of Dante's real life experiences and his minor works. The study looks at Dante's life from birth to maturity, his family, his education, his political tendencies, and the artistic and economical environment that surrounded him. It identifies Dante's personal interests, difficulties, disappointments, and achievements prior to the Divina Commedia. It offers a literary analysis of the three minor works relevant to his masterpiece. As far as the Vita Nuova is concerned, it analyzes the young poet and his creativity, the Dolce Stil Nuovo and the love for Beatrice. As far as the De Vulgari Eloquentia, it concentrates on its content in relation to the "vulgar" language. It delineates Dante's ideas on the evolution of languages, his examination of the current dominant Italian dialects and writers, and his notion about properties of a new Italian language. It explains why Dante wrote this work in Latin and not in Italian. When it turns to the Convivio, it analyzes the banquet of knowledge, the food of the mind for those who do not speak Latin. Successively, the study connects Dante's apprenticeship, his biography and the three minor works, to the Divina Commedia. It analyzes the form, the themes, the plot, the setting and goals of the masterpiece. It will show connections to the poetry and ideology of the Dolce Stil Nuovo, which is sinew of the Vita Nuova. It shows how the Divina Commedia puts in practice the linguistic theories generated in the De Vulgari Eloquentia, and how Dante demonstrates that his Italian language is as worthy as Latin. It proves that the Divina Commedia is an encyclopedia with the same goals as the Convivio. Specific examples from the Divina Commedia will show how Dante incorporates events from his life as well as episodes from his minor works in his culminating masterpiece, how the Divina Commedia is the end of a life journey. It will identify and connect many characters, events and situations in the Divina Commedia to Dante's own past. The "mad flight" of Ulysses, the words of Francesca da Rimini, the placing of Boniface VIII and others in Hell will be used as direct examples of Dante's apprenticeship. The study, furthermore, will examine the role of Pier Delle Vigne in order to establish a correlation between his life and the life of Dante. Finally, the study concludes by showing the intent of the Divina Commedia's desire to reach out to its readers in order to help them find their inner selves and become who they are. It is the hope of this study to educate its readers about Dante, and his minor works in relation to his masterpiece, to prove that he is still a major figure in the history of literature even without the Divina Commedia. This study will conclude with the aim of stimulating thoughts for future critical investigations.
Subject	Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Convivio -- Criticism and interpretation Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. De vulgari eloquentia -- Criticism and interpretation Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Vita nuova -- Criticism and interpretation
Department	Department of Modern Languages
Advisor	Pastore Passaro, Maria C.
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713734038
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