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Introduction: Why Teach Dante Vertically
- Pedagogy
- Duke University Press
- Volume 17, Issue 3, October 2017
- pp. 449-456
- Article
- Additional Information
The introduction provides a broad overview of the occasion for this collection of essays that stem from a National Endowment for the Humanities institute in Florence, Italy, in 2014. In addition to giving a summary of the six essays that follow, it offers a rationale for reading the Comedy retrospectively and prospectively as well as vertically, in other words, reading forward and backward in a recursive process.