Verse With Prose from Petronius to Dante The Art and Scope of the Mixed Form

Readers of Professor Dronke's previous work will expect elegance, close analysis of texts, and width of learning in this new book, and they will not be disappointed...It treats with selective analysis a number of prosimetric works from the Greco-Roman ancient world to the height of medieval culture in Dante's Vita Nuova. It is a welcome venture in this insufficiently charted territory...A brief review can give little idea of the riches of learning to be found in this short text. Reading it exposes even more the necessity of a full history of prosimetric writing from late antiquity to the high medieval period: can Professor Dronke be called on to write that, too?Dronke, Peter is the author of 'Verse With Prose from Petronius to Dante The Art and Scope of the Mixed Form', published 1994 under ISBN 9780674934757 and ISBN 067493475X.