by Erich Auerbach · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807818400
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«Studi su Dante» is Erich Auerbach's collection of essays on Dante's work, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (331 pages, in Italian).
It brings together the essays Erich Auerbach wrote on Dante between 1929 and the end of his life. It analyzes the concept of 'figura' in late antique culture and the relationship between structure and poetry in the Divine Comedy, and extends the study to Christian civilization, with authors such as Paul, Tertullian, Augustine and Bernard of Clairvaux.
2005 edition from the Universale Economica series, with a preface by Dante Della Terza and translation by Maria Luisa De Pieri Bonino. The original title is «Dante als Dichter der Irdischen Welt».
For readers interested in literary criticism and Dante's work, both students and specialists in Italian literature.
Erich Auerbach was a German philologist, comparative scholar and critic of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern times frequently cited as a classic in the study of realism in literature. Along with Leo Spitzer, Auerbach is widely recognized as one of the foundational figures of comparative literature.
