Dante's Interpretive Journey.(Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: Scott, John A. | Copyright information

Dante's Interpretive Journey. By WILLIAM FRANKE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1996. 13.50 [pounds sterling].

Dante and Governance. Ed. by JOHN WOODHOUSE. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. xi + 179 pp. 30 [pounds sterling].

'My immediate concern is to dispel the presumption that hermeneutic projects such as Dante's and my own are impossible and illegitimate (except in so far as being impossible may be necessary and being illegitimate appropriate).' This quotati...

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