Dante's Pride Vs. Compensatory Humility in the Purgatorio's Terrace of Pride
Author: Megan Eileen Kinsella
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 92
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Author: Megan Eileen Kinsella
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Smyth Carroll
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 554
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Denton Jaques Snider
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 596
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dante Alighieri
Publisher: First Avenue Editions ™
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1467787760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPurgatorio is the second part of Italian poet Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy and describes Dante's climb up the Mount of Purgatory. As in the Inferno, the Roman poet Virgil is guiding Dante on a journey; this time they visit the seven terraces of Purgatory, where sinners are cleansing themselves in preparation for entering Paradise. Each of the terraces represents one of the seven deadly sins, ranging from pride to lust. Through this allegory, Dante conveys that repentant souls can be redeemed. Dante wrote his narrative poem between 1308 and 1321. This version is taken from a 1901 English edition, featuring British author Rev. H. F. Cary's blank verse translation and woodcut illustrations by French artist Gustave Doré.
Author: Alessandro Vettori
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-09-16
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9004405259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage Alessandro Vettori provides a comprehensive analysis of prayer in Dante’s Commedia and considers the prayerful phenomenon a poetic/metaphorical pilgrimage of the soul toward the vision of the Trinity, while also reflecting Dante’s own exilic experience.
Author: Bernard Stambler
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Corbett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-12
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1108489419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a major re-appraisal of the Commedia as originally envisaged by Dante: as a work of ethics. Privileging the ethical, Corbett increases our appreciation of Dante's eschatological innovations and literary genius. Drawing upon a wider range of moral contexts than in previous studies, this book presents an overarching account of the complex ordering and political programme of Dante's afterlife. Balancing close readings with a lucid overview of Dante's Commedia as an ethical and political manifesto, Corbett cogently approaches the poem through its moral structure. The book provides detailed interpretations of three particularly significant sins - pride, sloth, and avarice - and the three terraces of Purgatory devoted to them. While scholars register Dante's explicit confession of pride, the volume uncovers Dante's implicit confession of sloth and prodigality (the opposing subvice of avarice) through Statius, his moral cypher.
Author: Dante
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-07-29
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781535571463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPurgatory is the second part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, presented here in an attractive and unabridged edition. Prior to this journey, Dante and his guide Virgil had visited Hell, learning the nature of each of the nine circles which constitute it. Upon departing Hell, the pair journey onward, eventually reaching the shores of the Mount of Purgatory. Here, the two ascend and behold the series of terraces which constitute this realm. Much of Dante's personal philosophy of sin revolves around the emotion of love - as such, many of the inhabitants of purgatory have directed love in a wrong or sinful manner, ultimately with the design of causing harm to others. Various misdeeds - the Seven Deadly Sins - constitute the sequential terraces of purgatory - namely pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony and lust. At the highest peak of Purgatory is the Garden of Eden; after reuniting with his paramour Beatrice, Dante takes a drink from the River Eunoe, and prepares for his ascent to the heavenly paradise."
Author: Teodolinda Barolini
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1992-10-30
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1400820766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their own terms, Teodolinda Barolini proposes a "detheologized" reading as a global new approach to the Divine Comedy. Not aimed at excising theological concerns from Dante, this approach instead attempts to break out of the hermeneutic guidelines that Dante structured into his poem and that have resulted in theologized readings whose outcomes have been overdetermined by the poet. By detheologizing, the reader can emerge from this poet's hall of mirrors and discover the narrative techniques that enabled Dante to forge a true fiction. Foregrounding the formal exigencies that Dante masked as ideology, Barolini moves from the problems of beginning to those of closure, focusing always on the narrative journey. Her investigation--which treats such topics as the visionary and the poet, the One and the many, narrative and time--reveals some of the transgressive paths trodden by a master of mimesis, some of the ways in which Dante's poetic adventuring is indeed, according to his own lights, Ulyssean.
Author: Richard Neuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0520348745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Neuse here explores the relationship between two great medieval epics, Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He argues that Dante's attraction for Chaucer lay not so much in the spiritual dimension of the Divine Comedy as in the human. Borrowing Bertolt Brecht's phrase "epic theater," Neuse underscores the interest of both poets in presenting, as on a stage, flesh and blood characters in which readers would recognize the authors as well as themselves. As spiritual autobiography, both poems challenge the traditional medieval mode of allegory, with its tendency to separate body and soul, matter and spirit. Thus Neuse demonstrates that Chaucer and Dante embody a humanism not generally attributed to the fourteenth century. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.