英国文艺复兴早期但丁的神曲将13世纪佛罗伦萨但丁的知识、情感和宗教世界与一群聚集在汉弗莱、格洛斯特公爵、国王的叔叔亨利六世周围的英国知识分子进行了比较。
在这里，乔纳森·休斯（Jonathan Hughes）证实了15世纪的英国出现了文艺复兴，这是受到希腊哲学家作品的发现和翻译以及科学和医学发展的鼓舞；格洛斯特圈子里的白话作家，如约翰·利德盖特和罗伯特·霍克莱夫，在探索自我的意义以及人与自然世界和古典历史的关系方面具有根本重要性。然而，但丁的《大众传媒》是中世纪最受欢迎的作品，它出现在15世纪的英国，提醒作家和读者知识探索的代价：对和谐美好世界失去信心；女人爱的救赎力量；以及来世的有形存在。
这项创新性的研究以引人入胜的笔触和细致的研究，为但丁的学术研究提供了新的视角，并对15世纪英国的知识分子思想和文化进行了独特的分析。
Dante’s Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England: The Collision of Two Worlds
Dante’s Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England compares the intellectual, emotional, and religious world of Dante in 13th-century Florence with that of a group of English intellectuals gathered around Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, uncle of the King, Henry VI.
Here, Jonathan Hughes establishes that there was a Renaissance in 15th-century England, encouraged by the discovery and translations of works of Greek philosophers and developments in science and medicine; and that vernacular writers in Gloucester’s circle, such as John Lydgate and Robert Hoccleve, were of fundamental importance in exploring the meaning of the self and man’s relationship with the natural world and the classical past. However, the appearance in 15th-century England of Dante’s ‘Commedia’, the most popular work of the Middle Ages, served to remind writers and readers of the cost of intellectual enquiry: the loss of faith in a harmonious and beautiful world; the redemptive power of the love of a woman; and the tangible presence of an afterlife.
Engagingly written and meticulously researched, this innovative study shines a new perspective on Dante scholarship as well as offering a unique anaylsis of intellectual thought and culture in 15th-century England.
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