Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Amoroso convivo
- Title:
- Amoroso convivo
- Collection:
- Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
- Date:
- 1529
- ID Number:
- REX007_0111
- Catalog Record:
- 1727122
- File Name:
- REX007_0111.tif
- Work Type:
- maps
prints (visual works)
- Subject:
- Books
- Description:
- The engraved portrait on the title page is of Dante. The Amorous Banquet, written ca. 1304–07, is Dante’s second prosimetrum (compilation of prose and poetry). It sets forth the poet’s political and philosophical ideas, including advocacy for an imperial restoration under the spiritual authority of the Church. Dante also predicts a new age in which vernacular languages will supplant Latin as the primary medium of literary expression.
- Source:
- Lo amoroso co[n]uiuio / ‡c di Dante: con la additione: nouamente stampato.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Fiske Dante Collection
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- Presumed to be in the public domain because of creation date.
