Rezension: "Besuch in der Hölle. Dantes Göttliche Komödie. Biographie eines Jahrtausendbuchs" von Franziska Meier

Abstract

Franziska Meier's study represents an important contribution to current scholarly research on Dante's Divina Commedia. In her new book, she not only explains the fundamental contexts of the genesis of the Commedia and biography of the author, who was already controversial during his lifetime. Rather, Meier also succeeds in coherently presenting linguistic aspects, questions of translation and reception outside Europe. The author and translator Lorena Pircher, herself also a Romance scholar, reviewed this study for Medienimpulse.