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Dante and the Medieval Other World

Author : Alison Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521039277
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Dante and the Medieval Other World written by Alison Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study of the Divine Comedy, this book offers an interesting perspective on Dante's representation of the afterlife. Alison Morgan departs from the conventional critical emphasis on Dante's place in relation to learned traditions by undertaking a thorough examination of the poem in the context of popular beliefs. Her principal sources are thus not the highly literary texts (such as Virgil's Aeneid or Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae) which have become a familiar context for the poem, but rather visions of the Other World found in popular writings, painting and sculpture from the centuries leading up to its composition. The book will be of interest to non-specialists in addition to scholars of Dante, since it offers a clear preliminary account of the Other World tradition, a chronology of its principal representations and summaries of the major texts. Fully illustrated throughout, it integrates with the literary and theological aspects of Dante's heritage the important but often neglected dimension of art history.

Dante and Medieval Latin Traditions

Author : Peter Dronke
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521379601
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Dante and Medieval Latin Traditions written by Peter Dronke and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Dronke explores 'The Divine Comedy' by exploring the medieval Latin traditions of Dante's era.

Dante and the Orient

Author : Brenda Deen Schildgen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252027130
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Dante and the Orient written by Brenda Deen Schildgen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Dante and the Orient, Schildgen argues that Dante's treatment of the East enabled him to use the rhetoric employed in crusade narratives and other travel literature to oppose the military and polemic goals of the Crusades and to plead for the reformation of both church and state."--BOOK JACKET.

Dante and the Greeks

Author : Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN 13 : 9780884024002
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Dante and the Greeks written by Jan M. Ziolkowski and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together cartography, history, philosophy, philology, and other disciplines, Dante and the Greeks taps into the knowledge of scholars of the medieval West, Byzantium, and Dante. Essays discuss the presence of ancient Greek poetry, philosophy, and science in Dante's writings, as well as the Greek characters who populate his works.

Reflecting the Eternal

Author : Marsha Daigle-Williamson
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1619706652
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Reflecting the Eternal written by Marsha Daigle-Williamson and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is no secret that C. S. Lewis's imagination was shaped by his beloved medieval and Renaissance literature. Here, Marsha Daigle-Williamson demonstrates that Lewis used Dante's Divine Comedy throughout his writing career, from The Pilgrim's Regress to The Chronicles of Narnia and Till We Have Faces. Book jacket.

Dante, Eros, and Kabbalah

Author : Mark Jay Mirsky
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815630272
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Dante, Eros, and Kabbalah written by Mark Jay Mirsky and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy as a young man in Florence sleep with Beatrice Portinari before and after her marriage? Did the poet travel after her death through Hell to find her again? The clues to this academic detective story, writes Mark Jay Mirsky, lie not only in Dante's earlier poetry, The New Life, or in The Divine Comedy, but in the Zohar of Moses de Leon, a Jewish text written some years before and based on Neoplatonic ideas similar to those that inspired Dante. Purgatorio and Paradiso, the second and third volumes of the Commedia, are inaccessible to most readers unfamiliar with the boldness of Dante's use of the philosophical debate in the Middle Ages. Does Dante's Commedia hint at his hope of intimacy with Beatrice in the Highest Heaven? In this book Mirsky distinctively traces the influence on Dante of Provencal poets, medieval theologians, Dante's personal life, and the sources of his classical education to propose a radical reading of Dante. The text compounds the riddles of dream, poetry, philosophy, and Dante's concealed autobiography in his work. It treats the Commedia in the spirit of its title, as a hopeful and comic vision of the other world.

Understanding Dante

Author : John Alfred Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Dante written by John Alfred Scott and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Understanding Dante, Scott goes beyond simply explaining Dante's works and provides a detailed discussion of the medieval poet's writings. John A. Scott has given readers a comprehensive account of Dante's work that will be useful to new readers and Dante scholars alike. It contains a helpful chronology of the events in the poet's life and a short glossary of poetic forms." --Magill Book Reviews

Dante

Author : Alessandro Barbero
Publisher : Pegasus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781643139135
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Dante written by Alessandro Barbero and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante brings the legendary author—and the medieval Italy of his era— to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing. Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries. However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the context he wrote them in. In Dante, Barbero brings the legendary author’s Italy to life, describing the political intrigue, battles, city and society that shaped his life and work. The son of a shylock who dreams of belonging to the world of writers and nobles, we follow Dante into the dark corridors of politics where ideals are shattered by rampant corruption, and then into exile as he travels Italy and discovers the extraordinary color and variety of the countryside, the metropolises, and the knightly courts. This is a book by a serious scholar with real popular appeal, as evidenced by its bestseller ranking in Italy. It is a remarkable piece of forensic investigation into medieval Italian life.

Inferno Revealed

Author : Deborah Parker
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1137390557
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Inferno Revealed written by Deborah Parker and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Dan Brown's book as a jumping off point, Inferno Revealed will provide readers of Brown's Inferno with an engaging introduction to Dante and his world. Much like the books on Leonardo that followed the release of the Da Vinci Code, this book will provide readers with more information about the ever-intriguing Dante. Specifically, Inferno Revealed explores how Dante made himself the protagonist of The Divine Comedy, something no other epic poet has done, a move for which the ramifications have not yet been fully explored. The mysteries and puzzles that arise from Dante's choice to personalize the epic, along with his affinity for his local surroundings and how that affects his depiction of the places, Church, and politics in the poem are considered--along with what this reveals about Brown's own usage of the work. The authors will focus on and analyze how Dan Brown has repurposed Inferno in his newest book--noting what he gets right and what errors are made when he does not. Of course, Dan Brown is not the first author to base his work on Dante. The Comedy has elicited many adaptations from major canonical writers such as Milton and Keats to popular adaptations like David Fincher's Se7en and Tim Burton's Beetlejuice-- all of which will be discussed in detail within Inferno Revealed.

Dante’s Bones

Author : Guy P. Raffa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674980832
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Dante’s Bones written by Guy P. Raffa and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgimento, World War I, and Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship. Dante, whose Divine Comedy gave the world its most vividly imagined story of the afterlife, endured an extraordinary afterlife of his own. Exiled in death as in life, the Florentine poet has hardly rested in peace over the centuries. Like a saint’s relics, his bones have been stolen, recovered, reburied, exhumed, examined, and, above all, worshiped. Actors in this graveyard history range from Lorenzo de’ Medici, Michelangelo, and Pope Leo X to the Franciscan friar who hid the bones, the stone mason who accidentally discovered them, and the opportunistic sculptor who accomplished what princes, popes, and politicians could not: delivering to Florence a precious relic of the native son it had banished. In Dante’s Bones, Guy Raffa narrates for the first time the complete course of the poet’s hereafter, from his death and burial in Ravenna in 1321 to a computer-generated reconstruction of his face in 2006. Dante’s posthumous adventures are inextricably tied to major historical events in Italy and its relationship to the wider world. Dante grew in stature as the contested portion of his body diminished in size from skeleton to bones, fragments, and finally dust: During the Renaissance, a political and literary hero in Florence; in the nineteenth century, the ancestral father and prophet of Italy; a nationalist symbol under fascism and amid two world wars; and finally the global icon we know today.

Dante Satiro

Author : Fabian Alfie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793621721
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Dante Satiro written by Fabian Alfie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays is the first comprehensive study on Dante and satire within his entire corpus that has been published. Its title evokes the moment when Virgil leads Dante through Limbo, the uppermost portion of Hell. There, they are joined by four classical poets, and Virgil describes one of them as “Horace the satirist” (“Orazio satiro,” 4:89). By applying the expression to Dante himself, this volume seeks to explore the satirical elements in his works. Although Dante is not typically described as a satirist, anyone familiar with his works will recognize the strong satirical element in his many writings. Ultimately, this study shows that Dante engages in satire in order to attain the primary literary tool at his disposal for his prophetic objectives: the castigation of vice.

Dante in Love

Author : Harriet Rubin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743262989
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Dante in Love written by Harriet Rubin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracks the great Italian poet following his exile from Florence in 1302, his travels as a fugitive from justice over the next twenty years, and the influence of his journeys on the creation of his poetic masterpiece, "The Divine Comedy."

Cosmological and Philosophical World of Dante Alighieri

Author : Jacek Grzybowski
Publisher : European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions
ISBN 13 : 9783631655320
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book Cosmological and Philosophical World of Dante Alighieri written by Jacek Grzybowski and published by European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyses the medieval vision of the world as depicted in Dante Alighieri's poetic works. In detail it discusses two works, The Banquet and The Divine Comedy, and offers a view on politics, faith and the universe of the medieval period. For modern people that period with its debates, polemics and visions represents something exceedingly remote, obscure and unknown. While admiring Dante's poetic artistry, we often fail to recognize the inspirations that permeated the works of medieval scholars and poets. Although times are constantly changing, every generation has to face the same fundamental questions of meaning, purpose and value of human existence: Dante's cosmological and poetical picture turns out to be surprisingly universal.

Dante in English

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dante in English written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Valley of the Dead

Author : Kim Paffenroth
Publisher : Permuted Press
ISBN 13 : 1934861375
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Valley of the Dead written by Kim Paffenroth and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2010-03-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Dante’s Inferno to draw out the reality behind the fantasy, author Kim Paffenroth tells the true events… During his lost wanderings, Dante came upon an infestation of the living dead. The unspeakable acts he witnessed —cannibalism, live burnings, evisceration, crucifixion, and dozens more—became the basis of all the horrors described in Inferno. At last, the real story can be told.

Dante

Author : Nick Havely
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047077987X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Dante written by Nick Havely and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Dante’s life and literature, with an emphasis on his Commedia. This text looks at the influences that shaped Dante’s writing, and the reception of his work by later readers, from the 14th century to the present. Introduces Dante through four main approaches: the context of his life and career; his literary and cultural traditions; key themes, episodes and passages in his own work, especially the Commedia; and the reception and appropriation of his work by later readers, from the fourteenth century to the present Written by an expert Dante scholar Provides new translations of substantial passages from Dante’s poems and from the world of his contemporaries Includes explanatory diagrams of Dante’s 'other-worlds', and a section of illustrations by medieval and modern artists Builds a vivid and complex picture of Dante's imagination, intellect and literary presence Helpful bibliographies include relevant web resources

Dante

Author : John Took
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069120893X
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Dante written by John Took and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work. Dante's writings are therefore never far away in this authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography, which offers a fresh account of the medieval Florentine poet's life and thought before and after his exile in 1302. Beginning with the often violent circumstances of Dante's life, the book examines his successive works as testimony to the course of his passionate humanity: his lyric poetry through to the Vita nova as the great work of his first period; the Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia and the poems of his early years in exile; and the Monarchia and the Commedia as the product of his maturity. Describing as it does a journey of the mind, the book confirms the nature of Dante's undertaking as an exploration of what he himself speaks of as "maturity in the flame of love." The result is an original synthesis of Dante's life and work." --Amazon.com.