In Dante's wake : : reading from medieval to modern in the Augustinian tradition / / John Freccero ; edited by Danielle Callegari and Melissa Swain.

"Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port. Starting on the sand of that very shore with Dante, John Freccero begins retracing the famous voya...

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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Fordham University Press,, 2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (204 pages) :; illustrations
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  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Editors' introduction
  • List of Figures
  • Shipwreck in the Prologue
  • The Portrait of Francesca: Inferno 5
  • Epitaph for Guido
  • The Eternal Image of the Father
  • Allegory and Autobiography
  • In the Wake of the Argo on a Boundless Sea
  • The Fig Tree and the Laurel
  • Medusa and the Madonna of Forli: Political Sexuality in Machiavelli
  • Donne's Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
  • Zeno's Last Cigarette
  • Bibliography
  • Index.