Dante's prayerful pilgrimage : : typologies of prayer in The comedy / / by Alessandro Vettori.
In Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage Alessandro Vettori provides a comprehensive analysis of prayer in Dante’s Commedia . The underlying thesis considers prayer a metaphorical pilgrimage toward a sacred location and connects it with the pilgrim’s ascent to the vision of the Trinity. Prayer is movement in...
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| Superior document: | Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts; volume22 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts;
volume22. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Pilgrimage and Exile
- Blasphemy in Inferno
- The Psalms: Poetic Prayer of Ascent
- Prayer as Art in Movement
- Intercessions, Prayerful Locations, and the Theatrics of Prayer
- Dancing Souls in Paradiso
- Prayer as Desire to Be Elsewhere
- Back Matter
- Appendix
- Works Cited
- Index.