The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso / / Massimo Verdicchio.
Paradiso, the conclusion to Dante Alighieri's masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, is an exploration of the nine celestial spheres of Heaven. A highly original and comprehensive reading, The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso challenges established scholarly interpretations to demonstrate that the int...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Texts
- Introduction
- Prologue I. DXV and Paradiso
- Prologue II. The Poetics of Paradiso
- Chapter 1. Heaven of the Moon: Grammar (II-IV)
- Chapter 2. Heaven of Mercury: Dialectics (V-VII)
- Chapter 3. Heaven of Venus: Rhetoric (VIII-IX)
- Chapter 4. Heaven of the Sun: Arithmetic (X-XIV)
- Chapter 5. Heaven of Mars: Music (XV-XVII)
- Chapter 6. Heaven of Jupiter: Geometry (XVIII-XX)
- Chapter 7. Heaven of Saturn: Astronomy (XXI-XXII)
- Chapter 8. Fixed Stars: Physics and Metaphysics (XXIV-XXVII)
- Chapter 9. Primum Mobile: Moral Philosophy (XXVII-XXIX)
- Chapter 10. Empyrean: Theology (XXX-XXXIII)
- Conclusions
- Index