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Dante and The divine comedy

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  • Author: Shutt, Timothy Baker
    Contributor: Dante Alighieri
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
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    Copyrighted
    2005
    Summary:

    Kenyon College professor Timothy B. Shutt delivers a revealing study of Dante's greatest work, The divine comedy. The Commedia is about the afterlife, not just Hell, but Purgatory, and Heaven too. Dante's genius is the genius of the allegorical method.

    Contents:
    • Dante : his life and times
    • The structure of the Commedia
    • The dark wood
    • The gates of Hell
    • The City of Dis
    • Malegolge
    • Cocytus and Satan
    • The shore of Purgatory
    • The seven terraces
    • The earthly paradise
    • The lower heavens
    • To the sun and beyond
    • The eagle of justice
    • To the heaven of pure light.
    Genre:
    Biographies and autobiographies
    Sujets: Dante Alighieri | History and criticism | Italian poetry
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md., Recorded Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781449894603