Gladstone and Dante Victorian Statesman, Medieval Poet - Royal Historical Society Publication

From the point at which he first read the Commedia, at the age of twenty-four, William Gladstone was to consider Dante Alighieri one of the major influences in his life, on a par with Homer and St Augustine, and to identifyhimself strongly with the poet. Both were statesmen as well as scholars, for whom civic duty was more important than personal convenience. Both were serious theologians as well as simple spiritual pilgrims. Both idealised women. This book shows how Gladstone found in Dante an endorsement of his own beliefs as he negotiated a path through life. Isba traces the development of his enthusiasm against the background of a resurgent Italy in a new Europe, and in the context of the Victorian fashion for all things medieval. She also examines the parallels between the two men's attitudes to sex and religion in particular, and closes by analysing the quality of Gladstone's own writingon Dante (he was to become an internationally recognised Dante scholar) .

ISBN:	9780861932771
Publisher:	Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:	Royal Historical Society
Published date:	15 Jun 2006
DEWEY:	941.081092
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	155
Weight:	417g
Height:	234mm
Width:	156mm
Spine width:	19mm

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