Ethics, politics and justice in Dante / / edited by Giulia Gaimari, Catherine Keen.

Ethics, Politics and Justice in Dante presents new research by international scholars on the themes of ethics, politics and justice in the works of Dante Alighieri, including chapters on Dante's modern 'afterlife'.Together the chapters explore how Dante's writings engage with the...

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Place / Publishing House:London : : UCL Press,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 176 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: justice in the heart
  • On grammar and justice: notes on Convivio, II
  • A classicizing friar in Dante's Florence. Servasanto da Faenza, Dante, and the ethics of friendship
  • An ethical and political bestiary in the first canto of Dante's Comedy
  • Lust and the law: reading and witnessing in Inferno V
  • More than an eye for an eye: Dante's sovereign justice
  • 'Ritornerò profeta': the Epistle of St James and the crowning of Dante's patience
  • Ethical distance and political resonance in Dante's Eclogues
  • Dante's Fortuna: an overview of canon formation and national contexts
  • Responses to Dante in the new millennium.