Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures

Toynbee was an early member and funder of the Oxford Dante Society, which was founded in 1876, and the annual lecture series is named in his honor. Here are written versions of nine recent lectures. The topics include exile and disgrace, misfortune and poverty, Dante's knowledge of Florentine history, and Danteism and Petrarchism as medieval polarities. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)