Massimo Verdicchio

Poetics of Dantes Paradiso

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A highly original and comprehensive reading, The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso challenges established scholarly interpretations to demonstrate that the intricacies of Dante's text reveal a subtle irony, employed to deliver a sharp critique of the corrupt church and empire of his own time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781442641198
• ISBN-10: 1442641193
• Artikelnr.: 29604310

Autorenporträt

Massimo Verdicchio is a professor of Italian and Comparative Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Prologue I: DXV and Paradiso
Prologue II: The Poetics of Paradiso
1. Heaven of the Moon: Grammar (II−IV)
2. Heaven of Mercury: Dialectics (V−VII)
3. Heaven of Venus: Rhetoric (VIII, IX)
4. Heaven of the Sun: Arithmetic (X−XIV)
5. Heaven of Mars: Music (XV−XVII)
6. Heaven of Jupiter: Geometry (XVIII, XIX, XX)
7. Heaven of Saturn: Astronomy (XXI−XXII)
8. Fixed Stars: Physics and Metaphysics (XXIV−XXVII)
9. Primum Mobile: Moral Philosophy (XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX)
10. Empyrean: Theology (XXX−XXXIII)
Conclusions