A Reading Of Dante S Inferno

Author : Giuseppe Mazzotta
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300191356

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Reading Dante by Giuseppe Mazzotta Pdf

divdivA 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

Author : Wallace Fowlie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1981-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226258881

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A Reading of Dante's Inferno by Wallace Fowlie Pdf

This work is a guide to the reading of Dante's great poem, intended for the use of students and laymen, particularly those who are approaching the Inferno for the first time. While carefully pointing out the uniqueness, tone, and color of each of Dante's thirty-four cantos, Fowlie never loses sight of the continuity of the poet's discourse. Each canto is related thematically to others, and the rich web of symbols is displayed and disentangled as the poem's unity, patterns, and structures are revealed. What particularly distinguishes Wallace Fowlie's reading of the Inferno is his emphasis on both the timelessness and the timeliness of Dante's masterpiece. By underlining the archetypal elements in the poem and drawing parallels to contemporary literature, Fowlie has brought Dante and his characters much closer to modern readers.

Author : Dante Alighieri,John Aitken Carlyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N10222639

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Dante's Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri,John Aitken Carlyle Pdf

Author : Prue Shaw
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780871407801

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Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity by Prue Shaw Pdf

The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time. Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem. This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and the emotional intensity of Dante’s poetry—the qualities that make the Commedia perhaps the greatest literary work of all time and not simply a medieval treatise on morality and religion. The book provides a graphic account of the complicated geography of Dante's version of the afterlife and a sure guide to thirteenth-century Florence and the people and places that influenced him. At the same time it offers a literary experience that lifts the reader into the universal realms of poetry and mythology, creating links not only to the classical world of Virgil and Ovid but also to modern art and poetry, the world of T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney and many others. Dante's questions are our questions: What is it to be a human being? How should we judge human behavior? What matters in life and in death? Reading Dante helps the reader to understand Dante’s answers to these timeless questions and to see how surprisingly close they sometimes are to modern answers. Reading Dante is an astonishingly lyrical work that will appeal to both those who’ve never read the Commedia and those who have. It underscores Dante's belief that poetry can change human lives.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002565922

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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : Kim Paffenroth
Publisher : Permuted Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781934861370

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Valley of the Dead by Kim Paffenroth Pdf

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.

Author : George Corbett,Heather Webb
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783741724

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Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy by George Corbett,Heather Webb Pdf

Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem. This collection – to be issued in three volumes – offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante. The volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the ‘Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy’ website.

Author : Mark Vernon
Publisher : Angelico Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781621387480

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Dante's Divine Comedy by Mark Vernon Pdf

Dante 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.

Author : Tom Clancy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1987-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 042510107X

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Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy Pdf

From the author of the Jack Ryan series comes an electrifying #1 New York Times bestseller—a standalone military thriller that envisions World War 3... A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, Red Storm Rising is as powerful as it is ambitious. Using the latest advancements in military technology, the world's superpowers battle on land, sea, and air for ultimate global control. It is a story you will never forget. Hard-hitting. Suspenseful. And frighteningly real. “Harrowing...tense...a chilling ring of truth.”—TIME

Author : Callihan Wesley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989702863

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The Aeneid Workbook - Old Western Culture by Callihan Wesley Pdf

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547670513

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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Pdf

The Divine Comedy is widely considered to be the preeminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The narrative describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven, while allegorically the poem represents the soul's journey towards God. Dante draws on medieval Christian theology and philosophy where the poet Virgil is presented as human reason and Beatrice is presented as divine knowledge. Thus, this edition brings to you the annotated translation of the Divine Comedy by Henry Francis Cary for a pleasant enjoyment of the world's greatest classic.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001103880642

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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : BookCaps
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781610429214

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Dante's Inferno in Plain and Simple English by BookCaps Pdf

Taking a literary journey through hell certainly sounds intriguing enough--and it is! If you can understand it! If you don't understand it, then you are not alone. If you have struggled in the past reading the ancient classic, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation with a fresh spin. The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of the modern text. 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. Visit BookCaps.com to find out more.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101608388

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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Pdf

This beautiful hardcover edition–containing all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize-winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations. The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. Allen Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman’s Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

Author : Mark Musa
Publisher : Bloomington, Indiana U.P
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Aufsatzsammlung
ISBN : UOM:39015058017198

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Essays on Dante by Mark Musa Pdf