The Transfiguration of History at the Center of Dante's Paradise / / Jeffrey Thompson Schnapp.
By examining the links between the planet Mars and the cross in the Heaven of the Warriors, Jeffrey Schnapp explores Dante's Christian rewriting of Virgil's Aeneid and Cicero's Republic at the center of the Comedy's, final canticle.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legac...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1986 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- I. Introduction: History and Eternity at the Center of Dante's Paradise
- II. Bella, Horrida Bella: History in the Grip of Mars
- III. Marte/Morte/Martirio: The Dilemma of Florentine History
- IV. Unica Spes Hominum, Crux, O Venerabilc Signum
- V. Sant' Apollinare in Classe and Dante's Poetics of Martyrdom
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX TO PASSAGES CITED FROM DANTE'S WORKS
- SUBJECT INDEX