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Dante Philomythes and Philosopher
Author | : Patrick Boyde |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0521273900 |
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This book is devoted to a full and lucid exposition of Boyde's ideas. In the first two parts, the author presents a systematic account of the universe as Dante accepted it, and explains the processes of 'creation' and 'generation' as they operate in the non-human parts of the cosmos. Dr Boyde then shows how the two processes combine in Dante's theory of human embryology, and how this combination affects the issues of love, choice and freedom. The third and last part of the book consolidates these expository sections with a generous selection of quotations from Dante's authorities and from his own works in prose. At the same time, the book offers far more than a clear account of Dante's cosmology and anthropology. Dr Boyde is interested in Dante's ideas in so far as they inspired and gave shape to the Divine Comedy. Furthermore, in every chapter he demonstrates how the relevant concepts and habits of thought were transmuted into imagery, symbolism, and dramatic scenes, or simply transformed by the energy and concision of Dante's poetic style.
Human Vices and Human Worth in Dante s Comedy
Author | : Patrick Boyde |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2006-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521026652 |
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Boyde sheds light on Dante's Comedy by restoring it to its intellectual and literary context.
Dante s Philosophical Life
Author | : Paul Stern |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-05-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812250114 |
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Dante's Philosophical Life argues that Purgatorio was intended to give instruction on how to live the philosophic life. Paul Stern's claim that Dante was arguing for prudence against dogmatisms of every kind addresses a question of contemporary concern: whether reason can guide a life.
Boccaccio the Philosopher
Author | : Filippo Andrei |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2017-10-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783319651156 |
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This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature. Filippo Andrei argues that Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron has a significant though concealed engagement with philosophy, and that the philosophical implications of its narratives can be understood through an epistemological approach to the text. He analyzes the influence of Dante, Petrarch, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, and other classical and medieval thinkers on Boccaccio's attitudes towards ethics and knowledge-seeking. Beyond providing an epistemological reading of the Decameron, this book also evaluates how a theoretical reflection on the nature of rhetoric and poetic imagination can ultimately elicit a theory of knowledge.
Reading Dante
Author | : Jesper Hede |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2007-09-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780739159941 |
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Reading Dante: The Pursuit of Meaning examines the problem of thematic coherence in Dante's Divina Commedia. Unlike many Dante scholars who maintain that the poem's unity is the account of a journey through the afterworld, Jesper Hede argues that a systematic parallel reading of the poem's three parts (Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise) reveals that it is the vision of divine order that provides the poem with its thematic unity.
Perception and Passion in Dante s Comedy
Author | : Patrick Boyde |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1993-09-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521370094 |
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A reading of the Comedy in the context of thirteenth-century psychology and philosophy.
Dante s Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England
Author | : Jonathan Hughes |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2022-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781350146297 |
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Dante's Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England compares the intellectual, emotional, and religious world of Dante in 13th-century Florence with that of a group of English intellectuals gathered around Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, uncle of the King, Henry VI. Here, Jonathan Hughes establishes that there was a Renaissance in 15th-century England, encouraged by the discovery and translations of works of Greek philosophers and developments in science and medicine; and that vernacular writers in Gloucester's circle, such as John Lydgate and Robert Hoccleve, were of fundamental importance in exploring the meaning of the self and man's relationship with the natural world and the classical past. However, the appearance in 15th-century England of Dante's 'Commedia', the most popular work of the Middle Ages, served to remind writers and readers of the cost of intellectual enquiry: the loss of faith in a harmonious and beautiful world; the redemptive power of the love of a woman; and the tangible presence of an afterlife. Engagingly written and meticulously researched, this innovative study shines a new perspective on Dante scholarship as well as offering a unique anaylsis of intellectual thought and culture in 15th-century England.
Dante Encyclopedia
Author | : Richard Lansing |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 2067 |
Release | : 2010-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781136849718 |
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Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy. The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia: brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid prose provides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looking at title and form, moral structure, allegory and realism, manuscript tradition, and also taking account of the various editions of the work over the centuries contains numerous entries on Dante's other important writings and on the major subjects covered within them addresses connections between Dante and philosophy, theology, poetics, art, psychology, science, and music as well as critical perspective across the ages, from Dante's first critics to the present.