Dante's volume from alpha to omega / edited by Christiana Purdy Moudarres, Carol Chiodo.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Moudarres, Christiana Purdy, editor.

Chiodo, Carol, editor.

Yale University, host institution.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Conference Name:

Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega: A Graduate Symposium on the Poet's Universe (2010 : New Haven, Conn.)

Series:

Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 577.

Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; volume 577

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Dante Alighieri.

Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxi, 363 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tempe, Arizona : Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2021.

Summary:

Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega' brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars to explore the poet's encyclopedic impulse in light of our own frenzied information age. This comprehensive collection of essays, coedited by Carol Chiodo and Christiana Purdy Moudarres, examines how Dante's spiritual quest is powered by an encyclopedic one, which has for more than seven centuries drawn a readership as diverse as the knowledge his work contains. The essays investigate both the intellectual and spiritual pleasures that Dante's 'Commedia' affords, underscoring how, through the sheer breadth of its knowledge, the poem demands collective and collaborative inquiry. Rather than isolating the poetic or theological strands of the 'Commedia', the book acts as a bridge across disciplines, braiding together the well-worn strands of poetry and theology with those of philosophy, the sciences, and the arts. The wide range of entries within Dante's poetic 'summa' yield multiple opportunities to reflect on their points of intersection, and the urgency of the convergence of the poem's aesthetic, intellectual, and affective aims.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE THEOLOGY

Dante's Orthodoxy And The Authority Of Knowledge / Jennifer Helm

Cathedrals Of Light: An Overview Of Dante's Commedia And Bonaventure's Thought / Filipa Afonso

The Rain Of Hope: Theology And Exile In Paradiso 25 / Maria Clara Iglesias Rondina

Dreams Of Prophets, Dreams Of Poets / Giulia Cardillo

Body-Less Vision: An Examination Of The Incarnational Theology Of Paradiso 31

33 / Junius Johnson

pt. TWO PHILOSOPHY

Dante's Humanistic Ontology: Notes For A Reading Of The Dialectic Hylomorphism Of The Commedia / Humberto Ballesteros

Remembering The Convivio: Dante And The Art Of Memory / Eleonora Buonocore

"Eternal Hate Created Me As Well": In Search Of Hate In Dante's Commedia / Elizabeth Coggeshall

pt. THREE SCIENCES

Ugolino And The Practice Of Divination Through Dreams / Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja

Hitting The Mark: Projectile Motion And The "Segno Lieto" In Dante's Commedia / Carol Chiodo

The Sphaera Infinita In Dante's Paradiso: Between The Suspension Of The "Geometra" And Modern Physics / Anna Bagorda

Legends Of The Fall: Genetics And Corruption In Inferno 27 / Christiana Purdy Moudarres

pt. FOUR ARTS

"The Play's The Thing, Wherein I'll Show The Glory Of The (Heavenly) King": Medieval Spectacle In Dante's Purgatorio / Loren Eadie

"Non Ciascun Segno/E Buono, Ancor Che Buona Sia La Cera": Dante's Poetic Conversion And The Metapoetics Of Purgatorio / Siobhan K. Quinlan

"Dare A Molti": The Trecento Commentaries On Inferno 26 / Rosa Affatato

Music And Political History {Paradiso 15

17) / Giuseppe Mazzotta.

Notes:

Revised and expanded papers presented at the conference Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega: A Graduate Symposium on the Poet's Universe, held March 26-28, 2010 at Yale University.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-352) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780866986359

0866986359

OCLC:

1242932988

Publisher Number:

99990693926