Dante
Title | Dante PDF eBook |
Author | Amilcare A. Iannucci |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780802077363 |
The essays in this volume probe current critical assumptions about the celebrated Italian poet, literary theorist, moral philosopher, political theorist.
The Secret History of Dante
Title | The Secret History of Dante PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Booth |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2013-06-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1476753113 |
Mark Booth, author of the international bestseller The Secret History of the World, uncovers the real-life stories of Dante and The Inferno. Why does Dante describe the Inferno as a real place? What secret society did Dante belong to? What was Dante’s connection with the Knights Templar? What was his secret connection to militant Islamic sects? Here you will find hidden codes, passageways under the streets of Florence, mad monks, mind-bending drugs and terrifying underground rituals. Together they contain all the elements of a great thriller–greed, murder, obsessive love, betrayal–and they reveal a 2,000-year-old conspiracy: to rule the world. Perfect if you want to understand the mysteries that inspired Dan Brown's novel Inferno, or as a standalone initiation to one of the great turning points in occult history.
Dante: Monarchy
Title | Dante: Monarchy PDF eBook |
Author | Dante Alighieri |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 1996-05-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521567817 |
This book, first published in 1996, is a translation of a fascinating work by one of the world's great poets.
Dante and the Making of a Modern Author
Title | Dante and the Making of a Modern Author PDF eBook |
Author | Albert Russell Ascoli |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2008-03-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139470701 |
Leading scholar Albert Russell Ascoli traces the metamorphosis of Dante Alighieri – minor Florentine aristocrat, political activist and exile, amateur philosopher and theologian, and daring experimental poet – into Dante, author of the Divine Comedy and perhaps the most self-consciously 'authoritative' cultural figure in the Western canon. The text offers a comprehensive introduction to Dante's evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas of authorship and authority from the early Vita Nuova through the unfinished treatises, The Banquet and On Vernacular Eloquence, to the works of his maturity, Monarchy and the Divine Comedy. Ascoli reveals how Dante anticipates modern notions of personalized, creative authorship and the phenomenon of 'Renaissance self-fashioning'. Unusually, the book examines Dante's career as a whole offering an important point of access not only to the Dantean oeuvre, but also to the history and theory of authorship in the larger Italian and European tradition.
Historicizing Secular-Religious Demarcations
Title | Historicizing Secular-Religious Demarcations PDF eBook |
Author | Monika Wohlrab-Sahr |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 2024-07-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3111386643 |
This volume aims to revitalize the exchange between sociological differentiation theory and the sociology of religion, which previously held center stage among the sociological classics. It brings together contributions from different disciplines, as well as various forms of regional and historical expertise, which are indispensable in forming a globally oriented sociological perspective today. Secularization is understood as a process of boundary demarcation, that is, as the enactment of semantic, practical, and institutional distinctions between religion and other spheres of activity and knowledge. These distinctions may emerge from within the religious field itself, or may be absorbed into the field having originally emerged elsewhere. They may even be directly imposed upon religion by external forces. The volume is therefore based on the premise that societal differentiation – and secularity as a specific expression of it – is a widespread structural feature that nonetheless takes on various forms, depending on its historical and cultural context. In order to make this diversity visible, the volume adopts a global comparative perspective, and examines historical distinctions and differentiations in the West and beyond. By examining different forms and modes of secularity in statu nascendi, the volume contributes to developing a better understanding of the diversity of secularities, even of those found in the present day, in terms of their historicity and their specific path dependencies. With this shift in perspective, this special volume initiates a global and historical turn in the theory of differentiation, as well as in the study of secularity.
Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange
Title | Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange PDF eBook |
Author | Jelena Todorović |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2016-03-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0823270246 |
Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange is the first book-length study to explore the question of poetry and genre in Dante’s Vita Nova (ca. 1292–1294). In paying particular attention to complex and multifaceted interactions between different cultures in Italy in the thirteenth century, this study illuminates the multicultural and plurilinguistic society transitioning from the feudal court to the modern city-state, advanced by the rising mercantile class. Working at the intersection of textual, material, and cultural elements, this study complements the current state of scholarship by providing information and answers informed by an in-depth analysis of the manuscript culture and its role in the birth and development of European vernacular traditions. Furthermore, Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange expands the literature’s understanding of the dynamics between a text and its material support by looking at this relationship within a broader framework of intercultural exchange, which suggests an increased dynamics and fluidity between cultures.
History of the Letters of Dante from the Fourteenth Century to the Present Day
Title | History of the Letters of Dante from the Fourteenth Century to the Present Day PDF eBook |
Author | Paget Jackson Toynbee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1919 |
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