Dante S Persons

Author : Heather Webb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191053214

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Dante's Persons by Heather Webb Pdf

Dante's Persons explores the concept of personhood as it appears in Dante's Commedia and seeks out the constituent ethical modes that the poem presents as necessary for attaining a fullness of persona. The study suggests that Dante presents a vision of 'transhuman' potentiality in which the human person is, after death, fully integrated into co-presence with other individuals in a network of relations based on mutual recognition and interpersonal attention. The Commedia, Heather Webb argues, aims to depict and to actively construct a transmortal community in which the plenitude of each individual's person is realized in and through recognition of the personhood of other individuals who constitute that community, whether living or dead. Webb focuses on the strategies the Commedia employs to call us to collaborate in the mutual construction of persons. As we engage with the dead that inhabit its pages, we continue to maintain the personhood of those dead. Webb investigates Dante's implicit and explicit appeals to his readers to act in relation to the characters in his otherworlds as if they were persons. Moving through the various encounters of Purgatorio and Paradiso, this study documents the ways in which characters are presented as persone in development or in a state of plenitude through attention to the 'corporeal' modes of smiles, gazes, gestures, and postures. Dante's journey provides a model for the formation and maintenance of a network of personal attachments, attachments that, as constitutive of persona, are not superseded even in the presence of the direct vision of God.

Author : Joseph Tusiani
Publisher : Legas / Gaetano Cipolla
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781881901297

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Dante's Divine Comedy by Joseph Tusiani Pdf

A prose retelling of Dante's poem about a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.

Author : John Took
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781472951045

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Why Dante Matters by John Took Pdf

The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot put it, 'divides the world with Shakespeare, there being no third'. His, like ours, was a world of moral uncertainty and political violence, all of which made not only for the agony of exile but for an ever deeper meditation on the nature of human happiness. In Why Dante Matters, John Took offers by way of three in particular of Dante's works – the Vita Nova as the great work of his youth, the Convivio as the great work of his middle years and the Commedia as the great work of his maturity – an account, not merely of Dante's development as a poet and philosopher, but of his continuing presence to us as a guide to man's wellbeing as man. Committed as he was to the welfare not only of his contemporaries but of those 'who will deem this time ancient', Dante's is in this sense a discourse overarching the centuries, a discourse confirming him in his status, not merely as a cultural icon, but as a fellow traveller.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002565922

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

Author : Heather Webb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780198733485

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Dante's Persons by Heather Webb Pdf

Persona: Dante's Ethics of the Transhuman explores the concept of personhood as it appears in Dante's Commedia and seeks out the constituent ethical modes that the poem presents as necessary for attaining a fullness of persona. The study suggests that Dante presents a vision of "transhuman" potentiality in which the human person is, after death, fully integrated into co-presence with other individuals in a network of relations based on mutual recognition and interpersonal attention. The Commedia, Heather Webb argues, aims to depict and to actively construct a transmortal community in which the plenitude of each individual's person is realized in and through recognition of the personhood of other individuals who constitute that community, whether living or dead. Webb focuses on the strategies the Commedia employs to call us to collaborate in the mutual construction of persons. As we engage with the dead that inhabit its pages, we continue to maintain the personhood of those dead. Webb investigates Dante's implicit and explicit appeals to his readers to act in relation to the characters in his otherworlds as if they were persons. Moving through the various encounters of Purgatorio and Paradiso, this study documents the ways in which characters are presented as persone in development or in a state of plenitude through attention to the "corporeal" modes of smiles, gazes, gestures, and postures. Dante's journey provides a model for the formation and maintenance of a network of personal attachments, attachments that, as constitutive of persona, are not superseded even in the presence of the direct vision of God.

Author : Joseph Tusiani
Publisher : Astor-Honor Incorporated
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1965-01-01
Category : Bilingual books
ISBN : 083923046X

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Dante's Inferno by Joseph Tusiani Pdf

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0253316197

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Dante's Paradise by Dante Alighieri Pdf

The Paradise, which Dante called the sublime canticle, is perhaps the most ambitious book of The Divine Comedy. In this climactic segment, Dante's pilgrim reaches Paradise and encounters the Divine Will. The poet's mystical interpretation of the religious life is a complex and exquisite conclusion to his magnificent trilogy. Mark Musa's powerful and sensitive translation preserves the intricacy of the work while rendering it in clear, rhythmic English. His extensive notes and introductions to each canto make accessible to all readers the diverse and often abstruse ingredients of Dante's unparalleled vision of the Absolute: elements of Ptolemaic astronomy, medieval astrology and science, theological dogma, and the poet's own personal experiences.

Author : Joseph Tusiani
Publisher : Legas Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 1461904749

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Dantes Divine Comedy by Joseph Tusiani Pdf

A prose retelling of Dante's poem about a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.

Author : Guy P. Raffa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674980839

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Dante’s Bones by Guy P. Raffa Pdf

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.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Devil in art
ISBN : MINN:31951002389030A

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The Vision of Hell by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : Leonard J. DeLorenzo,Vittorio Montemaggi
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532605833

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Dante, Mercy, and the Beauty of the Human Person by Leonard J. DeLorenzo,Vittorio Montemaggi Pdf

Dante, Mercy, and the Beauty of the Human Person is a pilgrimage to rediscover the spiritual and humanizing benefit of the Commedia. Treating each cantica of the poem, this volume offers profound meditations on the intertwined themes of memory, prayer, sainthood, the irony of sin, theological and literary aesthetics, and desire, all while consistently reflecting upon the key themes of mercy and beauty in the revelation of the human person within the drama of divine love.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001103880642

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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780195087420

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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Pardiso is the third of three volumes of a new edition and translation of Dantes's masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. Similar to volumes I Inferno and II Purgatorio, this translation will be into English prose, emphasizing the literal-vs-phonetic. A newly edited version of the Italian text will be on facing pages and includes fully comprehensive notes with the latest in contemporary scholarship.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798692854513

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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the very thought renews the fear.So bitter is it, death is little more; But of the good to treat, which there I found, Speak will I of the other things I saw there.I cannot well repeat how there I entered, So full was I of slumber at the moment In which I had abandoned the true way.But after I had reached a mountain's foot, At that point where the valley terminated, Which had with consternation pierced my heart, Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders, Vested already with that planet's rays Which leadeth others right by every road.Then was the fear a little quieted That in my heart's lake had endured throughout The night, which I had passed so piteously.And even as he, who, with distressful breath, Forth issued from the sea upon the shore, Turns to the water perilous and gazes;So did my soul, that still was fleeing onward, Turn itself back to re-behold the pass Which never yet a living person left.After my weary body I had rested, The way resumed I on the desert slope, So that the firm foot ever was the lower.And lo! almost where the ascent began, A panther light and swift exceedingly, Which with a spotted skin was covered o'er!And never moved she from before my face, Nay, rather did impede so much my way, That many times I to return had turned.The time was the beginning of the morning, And up the sun was mounting with those stars That with him were, what time the Love DivineAt first in motion set those beauteous things; So were to me occasion of good hope, The variegated skin of that wild beast, The hour of time, and the delicious season; But not so much, that did not give me fear A lion's aspect which appeared to me.He seemed as if against me he were coming With head uplifted, and with ravenous hunger, So that it seemed the air was afraid of him;And a she-wolf, that with all hungerings Seemed to be laden in her meagreness, And many folk has caused to live forlorn!She brought upon me so much heaviness, With the affright that from her aspect came, That I the hope relinquished of the height.And as he is who willingly acquires, And the time comes that causes him to lose, Who weeps in all his thoughts and is despondent, E'en such made me that beast withouten peace, Which, coming on against me by degrees Thrust me back thither where the sun is silent.While I was rushing downward to the lowland, Before mine eyes did one present himself, Who seemed from long-continued silence hoarse.When I beheld him in the desert vast, "Have pity on me," unto him I cried, "Whiche'er thou art, or shade or real man!"

Author : Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781442408920

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz Pdf

Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.