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Article: Images of Dante's exile in 19th-century France.(Critical essay)
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- Annali d'Italianistica
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Aida Audeh's "Images of Dante's Exile in 19th-century France" brings the reader back to Dante's exile and the extent to which it influenced French imagination in the 19th century. Aida Audeh, in fact, shows how, in the midst of the great interest in Dante in French arts and letters in the 19th century, a subgenre appeared on the basis of biographical legends surrounding the period of Dante's exile. Investigation into this sub-genre reveals a complex interchange of historical facts, anecdotes, fancy, and outright errors, producing images of Dante's exile unique to France. Cultural manifestations of interest in Dante's exile are so extensive as to necessitate a full-length ...
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