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Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins

Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins

This volume opens with the bold suggestion that the seven deadly sins constitute a key to the structure of Inferno and Paradiso as well as Purgatorio. It ends with a discussion of cowardice (not strictly...This volume opens with the bold suggestion that the seven deadly sins constitute a key to the structure of Inferno...
Author/Editor: John C. Barnes & Daragh O'Connell, editors
War and peace in Dante

War and peace in Dante

This volume opens with John Barnes exploring how Dante’s views on and experience of war are reflected in his literary works. Joseph Canning, addressing Dante’s justification of the authority of the Roman Empire, assesses the...This volume opens with John Barnes exploring how Dante’s views on and experience of war are reflected in his literary...
Author/Editor: John C. Barnes & Daragh O'Connell, editors
Nature and art in Dante

Nature and art in Dante

This volume opens with an essay in which Jennifer Petrie explores Dante’s own use of the term arte, before applying the findings of that exploration to the question of the poet’s aesthetic outlook. Claudia Boscolo...This volume opens with an essay in which Jennifer Petrie explores Dante’s own use of the term arte, before applying...
Author/Editor: Daragh O'Connell & Jennifer Petrie, editors
Language and style in Dante

Language and style in Dante

This volume opens with an essay where “style” is viewed medievally, as a near-synonym of “genre”: Zygmunt Barański argues that fully to appreciate the presence of Horace in Dante’s works the commentary tradition and medieval...This volume opens with an essay where “style” is viewed medievally, as a near-synonym of “genre”: Zygmunt Barański argues that...
Author/Editor: John C. Barnes & Michaelangelo Zaccarello editors
Medieval Italy, medieval and early modern women

Medieval Italy, medieval and early modern women

Essays in honour of Christine Meek

This book pays tribute to Professor Christine Meek with sixteen essays that present the latest research in the evolution of Italian society towards the Renaissance and also provide fascinating and original studies of the actions...This book pays tribute to Professor Christine Meek with sixteen essays that present the latest research in the evolution of...
Author/Editor: Conor Kostick editor
Dante and his literary precursors

Dante and his literary precursors

This volume explores connections between Dante and literary contexts of periods earlier than his own, from the pre-Christian era to the thirteenth century. Essays include Pamela Williams (U. Hull), Cato of Utica in Cicero’s De Finibus...This volume explores connections between Dante and literary contexts of periods earlier than his own, from the pre-Christian era to...
Author/Editor: John C. Barnes & Jennifer Petrie, editors
Dante and the Church

Dante and the Church

The topic of Dante's attitude to the Church has exercised scholars since the 14th century, with the Reformation adding fuel to the question. The essays contained in this volume, however, are concerned with situating Dante...The topic of Dante's attitude to the Church has exercised scholars since the 14th century, with the Reformation adding fuel...
Author/Editor: Paolo Acquaviva & Jennifer Petrie, editors
Dante and the human body

Dante and the human body

The essays in this volume explore Dante’s interest in the human body from various intellectual standpoints, the contributors being a mixture of historians, literary scholars and theologians. See *contents* button at left for a full...The essays in this volume explore Dante’s interest in the human body from various intellectual standpoints, the contributors being a...
Author/Editor: John C. Barnes & Jennifer Petrie, editors
Italian culture

Italian culture

Interactions, transpositions, translations

At a seminar in April 2002 at Trinity College Dublin, marking the retirement of Professor Corinna Salvadori, former students, recent graduates, colleagues and friends contributed papers on a variety of subjects. The occasion also celebrated...At a seminar in April 2002 at Trinity College Dublin, marking the retirement of Professor Corinna Salvadori, former students, recent...
Author/Editor: Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin Corinna Salvadori & John Scattergood editors
Patterns in Dante
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Patterns in Dante

Interesting collection of essays relating to Dante’s works that offers fresh literary interpretations, concluding with an extensive index of references to Dante’s works as well as an index of names. *Contributors:* Mark Davie (University of Exeter);...Interesting collection of essays relating to Dante’s works that offers fresh literary interpretations, concluding with an extensive index of references...
Author/Editor: Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin & Jennifer Petrie, editors
Italian novels of peasant crisis, 1930–1950

Italian novels of peasant crisis, 1930–1950

Bonfires in the night

This book brings together the insights of historians and critics to examine the account given in a range of novels of the effect on peasant society of Fascist ruralist policies and the post-Second World War...This book brings together the insights of historians and critics to examine the account given in a range of novels...
Author/Editor: Brian Moloney
Dante Metamorphoses

Dante Metamorphoses

Episodes in a literary afterlife

These essays show how Dante’s Commedia was appropriated across Europe through the ages, beginning in 15th-century Spain and finishing in 19th-century Italy. Published in conjunction with the Foundation of Italian Studies at University College Dublin,...These essays show how Dante’s Commedia was appropriated across Europe through the ages, beginning in 15th-century Spain and finishing in...
Author/Editor: Eric Haywood, editor