Dante and the Franciscans / / edited by Santa Casciani.
Only the second volume dedicated to Dante and the Franciscans, this collection of essays offers a Franciscan reading of the Divine Comedy. Nine of the ten essays address how Dante's Comedy and his Vita Nuova were influenced by Franciscan spirituality; the tenth essay addresses the influence tha...
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| Superior document: | The Medieval Franciscans ; 3 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006. |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Medieval Franciscans ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (371 p.) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction - Santa Casciani
- Dante, Peter John Olivi, and the Franciscan Apocalypse - V.S. Benfell III
- Clarissan Spirituality and Dante - Tonia Bernardi Triggiano
- Bernardino: Reader of Dante - Santa Casciani
- What Dante Learned from St Francis - William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman
- A Franciscan explanation of Dante's cinquecento diece e cinque - Elvira Giosi
- Dante's Franciscanism - Giuseppe Mazzotta
- The Life of the World to Come: The Franciscan Character of Paradiso - Amanda D. Quantz
- The Cross as te in "The Canticle of Creatures," Dante's "Virgin Mother," and Chaucer's - "Invocation to Mary" - Sister Lucia Treanor
- Pax et bonum: Dante's Depiction of Francis of Assisi in Paradiso 11 - Alessandro Vettori
- Vestiges and Communities: Franciscan Traces in Dante's New Life - Brenda Wirkus
- Index.