Dante Studies: Journey to Beatrice
Author: Charles Southward Singleton
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK1. Commedia: elements of structure.--2. Journey to Beatrice.
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Dante
Author: John Freccero
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780674192263
DOWNLOAD EBOOK[The essays] are arranged to follow the order of the "Comedy," and they form the perfect companion for a reader of the poem. Throughout Freccero operates on the fundamental premise that there is always an intricate and crucial dialectic at work between Dante the poet and Dante the pilgrim. -- from cover.
Dante studies. 2. Journey to Beatrice
Author: Charles Southward Singleton
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 291
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDante's Idea of Friendship
Author: Filippa Modesto
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1442624140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the ancient world, friendship was a virtue of great philosophical importance. Aristotle wrote extensively about it, as did Cicero. Their conception of friendship as a relationship based on reason and virtue was transformed by Christianity into a connection based on the mutual love of an individual and God. In Dante’s Idea of Friendship, Filippa Modesto offers sharp readings of the Commedia, Vita Nuova, and Convivio that demonstrate Dante’s interest in that theme. Drawing on a lucid and wide-ranging examination of the literature on friendship, she shows how he weaved together the contradictory classical and the Christian concepts of friendship into a harmonious synthesis in which friendship became a handmaiden to salvation and happiness. A fresh, perceptive interpretation of Dante’s works, Dante’s Idea of Friendship will engage medievalists, classicists, and scholars of friendship throughout the ages.
Journey to Beatrice
Author: Charles S. Singleton
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2019-12-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781421432649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSingleton attempts to restore the allegorical elements to the foreground of interpreting the Comedy.
Dante's Journey to Polyphony
Author: Francesco Ciabattoni
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2015-01-15
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1442620234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Dante's Journey to Polyphony, Francesco Ciabattoni's erudite analysis sheds light on Dante's use of music in the Divine Comedy. Following the work's musical evolution, Ciabattoni moves from the cacophony of Inferno through the monophony of Purgatory, to the polyphony of Paradise and argues that Dante's use of sacred songs constitutes a thoroughly planned system. Particular types of music accompany the pilgrim's itinerary and reflect medieval theories regarding sound and the sacred. Combining musicological and philological scholarship, this book analyzes Dante's use of music in conjunction with the form and content of his verse, resulting in a cross-discipline analysis also touching on Italian Studies, Medieval Studies, and Cultural History. After moving from infernal din to heavenly harmony, Ciabattoni's final section addresses the music of the spheres, a theory that enjoyed great diffusion among the early middle ages, inspiring poets and philosophers for centuries.
Dante's Sacred Poem
Author: Sheila J. Nayar
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-08-28
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1441130837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguing that the consecrated body in the Eucharist is one of the central metaphors structuring The Divine Comedy, this book is the first comprehensive exploration of the theme of transubstantiation across Dante's epic poem. Drawing attention first to the historical and theological tensions inherent in ideas of transubstantiation that rippled through Western culture up to the early fourteenth century, Sheila Nayar engages in a Eucharistic reading of both the "flesh" allusions and "metamorphosis" motifs that thread through the entirety of Dante's poem. From the cannibalistic resonances of the Ugolino episode in the Inferno to the Corpus Christi-like procession seminal to Purgatory, Nayar demonstrates how these sacrifice- and Host-related metaphors, allusions, and tropes lead directly and intentionally to the Comedy's final vision, that of the Eucharist itself. Arguing that the final revelation in Paradise is analogically "the Bread of Life," Nayar brings to the fore Christ's centrality (as sacrament) to The Divine Comedy-a reading that is certain to alter current-day thinking about Dante's poem.
Dante's Purgatory
Author: Dante Alighieri
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1981-09-22
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780253179265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusa's extensive annotation as well as his prose introduction to each of the cantos reveal the hand of the careful scholar and craftsman.
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Italy (2004)
Author: Christopher Kleinhenz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 1648
ISBN-13: 135166445X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century. It presents in two volumes articles on a wide range of topics including history, literature, art, music, urban development, commerce and economics, social and political institutions, religion and hagiography, philosophy and science. This illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource and will be of key interest not only to students and scholars of history but also to those studying a range of subjects, as well as the general reader.
Dante
Author: Amilcare A. Iannucci
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780802077363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume probe current critical assumptions about the celebrated Italian poet, literary theorist, moral philosopher, political theorist.
