A South African Convivio with Dante : : born frees' interpretations of the Commedia / / edited by Sonia Fanucchi, Anita Virga.

• Superior document: Studi e saggi
• TeilnehmendeR: Virga, Anita,; Fanucchi, Sonia,
• Place / Publishing House: Firenze : : Firenze University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studi e saggi (Florence, Italy)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (203 pages).
• Other title: South African Convivio with Dante
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Sonia Fanucchi, Anita Virga.

This book offers a collection of South African university students' written responses to the Commedia and scholars' commentary on them. The students' collection includes writings of all genres and subjects: prose, poetry, personal reflection, dialogue, non-fiction based on the first two cantiche of the Commedia. Some are autobiographical and others are fictional stories, but they all have in common a very personal (and South African) approach to Dante's text. The scholarly essays of the second part are concerned with the unusual way in which Dante is appreciated by our youth: not as a remote figure only encountered in the hallways of the literature department, but as an intimate presence, a guide, a friend whose language is familiar and invites a response.