The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso /

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"In this book, Verdicchio provides a canto-by-canto analysis of Paradiso. He maintains that the cantica can allegorically be seen as a commentary on the political and religious establishment, framed as the punitive action of the DXV announced at the end of Purgatorio, denouncing the illicit and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Verdicchio, Massimo, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321. > Paradiso.
Paradiso (Dante Alighieri)
Heaven in literature.
POETRY > Continental European.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Ciel > Aspect religieux, dans la litterature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Heaven of the Moon: Grammar (II-IV)
  • Heaven of Mercury: Dialectrics (V-VII)
  • Heaven of Venus: Rhetoric (VIII-IX)
  • Heaven of the Sun: Arithmetic (X-XIV)
  • Heaven of Mars: Music (XV-XVII)
  • Heaven of Jupiter: Geometry (XVIII -XX)
  • Heaven of Saturn: Astronomy (XXI-XXII)
  • Fixed Stars: Physics and Metaphysics (XXIV-XXVII)
  • Primum Mobile: Moral Philosophy (XXVII-XXIX)
  • Empyrean: Theology (XXX-XXXIII).

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