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Dante & the unorthodox : the aesthetics of transgression / edited by James Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Religion.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation.
- Christianity in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (577 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Dante and the unorthodox
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- During his lifetime, Dante was condemned as corrupt and banned from Florence on pain of death. But in 1329, eight years after his death, he was again viciously condemned-this time as a heretic and false prophet-by Friar Guido Vernani. From Vernani's inquisitorial viewpoint, the author of the Commedia ""seduced"" his readers by offering them ""a vessel of demonic poison"" mixed with poetic fantasies designed to destroy the ""healthful truth"" of Catholicism. Thanks to such pious vituperations, a sulphurous fume of unorthodoxy has persistently clung to the mantle of Dante's poetic fam
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Retheologizing Dante; Part I-Trapassar; Part II-Trasmutar; Part III-Trasumanar; Part IV-Traslatar; Part V-Tralucere; Part VI-Trasmodar; Notes on Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610280766
- 9781280280764
- 128028076X
- 9780889209275
- 0889209278
- 9781417599721
- 1417599723
- OCLC:
- 753479553
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