Lectura Dantis : Purgatorio / edited by Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, Charles Ross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mandelbaum, Allen, 1926-2011.

Oldcorn, Anthony.

Ross, Charles.

Series:

Lectura Dantis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Purgatorio.

Dante Alighieri.

Italian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (430 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new critical volume, the second to appear in the three-volume Lectura Dantis, contains expert, focused commentary on the Purgatorio by thirty-three international scholars, each of whom presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the transitional middle cantica of Dante's unique Christian epic. The cast of characters is as colorful as before, although this time most of them are headed for salvation. The canto-by-canto commentary allows each contributor his or her individual voice and results in a deeper, richer awareness of Dante's timeless aspirations and achievements.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Canto I. Ritual and Story

Canto II. The New Song and the Old

Canto III. The Sheepfold of the Excommunicates

Canto IV. The Lute Maker

Canto V. The Keys to Purgatory

Canto VI. Abject Italy

Canto VII. Sordello and the Catalog of Princes

Canto VIII. In the Valley of the Rulers

Canto IX. The Ritual Keys

Canto X. The Art of God

Canto XI. Gone with the Wind

Canto XII. Eyes Down

Canto XIII. Among the Envious

Canto XIV. The Rhetoric of Envy

Canto XV. Virtual Reality

Canto XVI. A World of Darkness and Disorder

Canto XVII. On Revenge

Canto XVIII. Love, Free Will, and Sloth

Canto XIX. Vectors of Human Love

Canto XX. Hugh Capet and the Avarice of Kings

Canto XXI. Greeting Statius

Canto XXII. Virgil and Statius Discourse

Canto XXIII. Reading Literary and Ethical Choices

Canto XXIV. Of Poetry and Politics

Canto XXV. Statius's Marvelous Connection of Things

Canto XXVI. The Fires of Lust and Poetry

Canto XXVII. At the Threshold of Freedom

Canto XXVIII. Watching Matilda

Canto XXIX. Dante's Processional Vision

Canto XXX. At the Summit of Purgatory

Canto XXXI. Dante's Repentance

Canto XXXII. The Parallel Histories

Canto XXXIII. Beatrice's Prophecy, Matilda's Name, and the Pilgrim's Renewal

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612360176

9781282360174

1282360175

9780520940529

0520940520

9781435630390

1435630394

OCLC:

437196975