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May 28, 2006 · Summary. UNDERWRITING THE entire world in which Dante lived is a single book, the Bible. Believed to be authored by a God who chose human scribes to speak his word, it had an authority quite beyond any human text. For this reason it was the most studied book in the Middle Ages, both the primer on which the young clerk learned his alphabet, and ...
- Peter S. Hawkins
- 1993
Dante was thoroughgo'"g H^j^" 7 the depth of man s need; he saw the grandeur of the heavenly_jii5cjpliiie. He did not waste his fervors on sin or sinners; he reserved those fervors for struggling purity and for God's plan of rescue and restoration. Dante is the most ethical of poets—he measures all things by the standard of the sanctuary.
By applying this sort of intertextual reading to the episode in canto 8 of the Inferno, we are able to view an old crux in. Dante criticism-the ira bona/ira mala controversy-in a new light and perhaps even to resolve it. After reading and considering the allusion to Luke in extenso, readers of the Divine Comedy should.
RESURRECTING THE WORD: DANTE AND THE BIBLE. Peter S. Hawkins. While the presence of one text in another always establishes a com- plex of cross-reference and interaction, there is a special order of in- tertextuality when the parent work is considered to be God's Book. Because of its privileged position as alpha and omega, as first and last.
Summary. IT IS COMMONLY said that the Divina Commedia ends with Dante's vision of the Trinity. This will pass as a generalization, but it is not precisely true; and it is not merely a scholarly quibble to note why. When, as his journey is coming to an end, Dante sees the Trinity in the form of three differently colored circles, he notices that ...
- Christopher Ryan
- 1993
His books include Dante s Interpretive Journey (1996), On What Cannot Be Said (2007), Poetry and Apocalypse (2009), Dante and the Sense of Transgression (2013), A Philosophy of the Unsayable (2014), The Revelation of Imagination: From the Bible and Homer through Virgil and Augustine to Dante (2015), Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological ...
Dante Alighieri cited the Bible extensively in his Commedia, but also used his epic poem to meditate on the meaning of the Scriptures as a 'true' text.The Biblical Dante provides close readings of passages from the Commedia to explore how Dante's concept of Biblical truth differs sharply from modern notions.
