Dante And The Mediterranean Comedy

Author : Andrea Celli
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031074042
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy written by Andrea Celli and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dante’s Comedy be ‘Mediterranean’? Is it because of its Greek-Arabic and Islamic sources? Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy analyzes the ideological function of references to the sea in the study of the Comedy undertaken by Enrico Cerulli, a scholar of Somali-Ethiopian languages, and a colonial governor of ‘Italian East Africa.’ Then it presents novel lines of inquiry on the reception and appropriation of the poem, such as the presence of Islamic sources in early commentaries of the Comedy, and cross-cultural allusions to Dante’s Hell in some graffiti on the walls of the Spanish Inquisition prison in Palermo. The image of the Mediterranean that seeps through the poem and through the history of its circulation is vivid yet hardly idyllic.

Author : Andrea Celli
Publisher : de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110689808
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mediterranean Comedy written by Andrea Celli and published by de Gruyter. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1921, Miguel Asín Palacios published a pioneering book, The Islamic Eschatology in the Divine Comedy, in which he argued that Dante's poem, the summa of Christian Middle Ages, had to be read on the backdrop of Islamic lore. The idea that the 'Tuscan afterworld' could have Quranic sources triggered one of the most heated literary debates of the 20th century, with both sides evincing nationalistic and cultural biases. The first section of the book analyzes this contentious episode of literary criticism from a historical standpoint: the post-WW2 decolonization period and the emergence of the Mediterranean as an hermeneutical framework of interpretation. It focuses on the multifaceted biography of Enrico Cerulli (1898-1988), a governor of Italian colonies and a scholar of Somali and Ethiopian studies, whose philological works are landmarks of the debate on Dante and Islam. The second part of the monograph presents some novel lines of inquiry on the reception, interpretation, and appropriation of the Comedy in the early-modern period. In this context, surprising intersections with Islamic sources materialize. The overarching goal of the book is to test the Mediterranean as a productive concept in the interpretation of Dante's work.

Author : Andrea Celli
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031074025
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy written by Andrea Celli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dante’s Comedy be ‘Mediterranean’? Is it because of its Greek-Arabic and Islamic sources? Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy analyzes the ideological function of references to the sea in the study of the Comedy undertaken by Enrico Cerulli, a scholar of Somali-Ethiopian languages, and a colonial governor of ‘Italian East Africa.’ Then it presents novel lines of inquiry on the reception and appropriation of the poem, such as the presence of Islamic sources in early commentaries of the Comedy, and cross-cultural allusions to Dante’s Hell in some graffiti on the walls of the Spanish Inquisition prison in Palermo. The image of the Mediterranean that seeps through the poem and through the history of its circulation is vivid yet hardly idyllic.

Author : Joan M. Ferrante
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400853990
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy written by Joan M. Ferrante and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan Ferrante analyzes the Divine Comedy in terms of public issues, which continued foremost in Dante's thinking after his exile from Florence. Professor Ferrante examines the political concepts of the poem in historical context and in light of the political theory and controversies of the period. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia) by Dante Alighieri (Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri). A “comedy”, that became a “divine book” for ancestors, is one of the greatest works of art known to the world. It is an encyclopedia of “moral, natural, philosophical and theological” knowledges, a tremendous synthesis of the feudal catholic ideology and the same tremendous epiphany that spread during the new culture times. A great poetic genius of the author put this comedy above the era and made it a legacy of centuries.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dante's Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Anthony Mazzeo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Cultural Tradition in Dante's Comedy written by Joseph Anthony Mazzeo and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alessandro Barbero
Publisher : Pegasus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781643139135
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dante written by Alessandro Barbero and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante brings the legendary author—and the medieval Italy of his era— to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing. Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries. However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the context he wrote them in. In Dante, Barbero brings the legendary author’s Italy to life, describing the political intrigue, battles, city and society that shaped his life and work. The son of a shylock who dreams of belonging to the world of writers and nobles, we follow Dante into the dark corridors of politics where ideals are shattered by rampant corruption, and then into exile as he travels Italy and discovers the extraordinary color and variety of the countryside, the metropolises, and the knightly courts. This is a book by a serious scholar with real popular appeal, as evidenced by its bestseller ranking in Italy. It is a remarkable piece of forensic investigation into medieval Italian life.

Author : Ernest Hatch Wilkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concordance to the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri written by Ernest Hatch Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: