Companion to Dante's Divine Comedy
Author: Aldo S. Bernardo
Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781586842635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn in-depth companion guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy.
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Companion to the Divine Comedy
Author: Charles Hall Grandgent
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe poem discusses "the state of the soul after death and presents an image of divine justice meted out as due punishment or reward", and describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Allegorically, the poem represents the soul's journey towards God, beginning with the recognition and rejection of sin (Inferno), followed by the penitent Christian life (Purgatorio), which is then followed by the soul's ascent to God (Paradiso). Dante draws on medieval Catholic theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy derived from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas. Consequently, the Divine Comedy has been called "the Summa in verse".
The Cambridge Companion to Dante
Author: Rachel Jacoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-02-15
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0521844304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.
The Divine Comedy Companion
Author: BookCaps
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
Published: 2013-08-26
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1621078876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDante’s "Divine Comedy" (the trilogy that includes Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise) is a true classic that people have appreciated for over a hundred years. The fact that it is a classic doesn’t mean every reader will breeze through it with no problem at all. If you need just a little more help with Dante's classic, then let BookCaps help with this simplified study guide! This book contains a comprehension study of Dante's classic work (including chapter summaries for every chapter, and an overview of themes and characters). This edition does not include the poem. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.
The Cambridge Companion to Dante's ‘Commedia'
Author: Zygmunt G. Barański
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1108421296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccessible and informative account of Dante's great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.
Reading Dante
Author: Giuseppe Mazzotta
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0300191359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKdivdivA towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to life in this exploration of the man, his cultural milieu, and his endlessly fascinating works.div /DIVdivBased on Mazzotta’s highly popular Yale course, this book offers a critical reading of The Divine Comedy and selected other works by Dante. Through an analysis of Dante’s autobiographical Vita nuova, Mazzotta establishes the poetic and political circumstances of The Divine Comedy. He situates the three sections of the poem—Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise—within the intellectual and social context of the late Middle Ages, and he explores the political, philosophical, and theological topics with which Dante was particularly concerned./DIV/DIV/DIV
Dante's Divine Comedy
Author: Mark Vernon
Publisher: Angelico Press
Published: 2021-09-03
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 1621387488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDante Alighieri was early in recognizing that our age has a problem. His hometown, Florence, was at the epicenter of the move from the medieval world to the modern. He realized that awareness of divine reality was shifting, and that if it were lost, dire consequences would follow. The Divine Comedy was born in a time of troubling transition, which is why it still speaks today. Dante's masterpiece presents a cosmic vision of reality, which he invites his readers to traverse with him. In this narrative retelling and guide, from the gates of hell, up the mountain of purgatory, to the empyrean of paradise, Mark Vernon offers a vivid introduction and interpretation of a book that, 700 years on, continues to open minds and change lives.
A Beginner's Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy
Author: Jason M. Baxter
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2018-03-20
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1493413104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDante's Divine Comedy is widely considered to be one of the most significant works of literature ever written. It is renowned not only for its ability to make truths known but also for its power to make them loved. It captures centuries of thought on sin, love, community, moral living, God's work in history, and God's ineffable beauty. Like a Gothic cathedral, the beauty of this great poem can be appreciated at first glance, but only with a guide can its complexity and layers of meaning be fully comprehended. This accessible introduction to Dante, which also serves as a primer to the Divine Comedy, helps readers better appreciate and understand Dante's spiritual masterpiece. Jason Baxter, an expert on Dante, covers all the basic themes of the Divine Comedy, such as sin, redemption, virtue, and vice. The book contains a general introduction to Dante and a specific introduction to each canticle (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso), making it especially well suited for classroom and homeschool use.
Critical Companion to Dante
Author: Jay Ruud
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 1438108419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDante Alighieri is one of the greatest poets in world history. His brilliant epic, "The Divine Comedy", an imagined journey through Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, continues to captivate readers. This work provides an information on his life and work. It covers Dante's canon, including his love poems in "La Vita Nuova" and his philosophical works.
Lectura Dantis, Inferno
Author: Allen Mandelbaum
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999-02-01
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 0520920538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's Divine Comedy. Mandelbaum's translation, with facing original text and with illustrations by Barry Moser, has been praised by Robert Fagles as "exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths," and by the late James Merrill as "lucid and strong . . . with rich orchestration . . . overall sweep and felicity . . . and countless free, brilliant, utterly Dantesque strokes." Charles Simic called the work "a miracle. A lesson in the art of translation and a model (an encyclopedia) for poets. The full range and richness of American English is displayed as perhaps never before." This collection of commentaries on the first part of the Comedy consists of commissioned essays, one for each canto, by a distinguished group of international scholar-critics. Readers of Dante will find this Inferno volume an enlightening and indispensable guide, the kind of lucid commentary that is truly adapted to the general reader as well as the student and scholar.
