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Article: Dante Metamorphoses: Episodes in a Literary Afterlife.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2006
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Dante Metamorphoses: Episodes in a Literary Afterlife. Ed. By Eric G. Haywood. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2003. 252 pp. 55 [euro]. ISBN 1-85182-662-9.
This is the sixth collection of Dante studies brought out by the UCD Foundation for Italian Studies, gathering nine papers on miscellaneous aspects of Dante's reception in Italy, England, and Spain from the fifteenth century to the turn of the nineteenth. The authors are not Dante specialists, nor even, in some cases, Italianists, but scholars whose research in other areas bears impressive witness to the range and duration of Dante's influence, and to the multiplicity of forms and motivations involved in his ...