In the Footsteps of Dante

In the Footsteps of Dante
Author: Teresa Bartolomei,Joao R. Figueiredo
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2023-01-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783110796094

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Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the "Great Beyond" (Manguel). Following in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going à rebours, but a commitment to the future, to exploring the potential of humanity to "transhumanise". This dynamic of self-transcendence in Dante’s humanism (Ossola), which claims for European civilisation a vocation for universalism (Ferroni), is analysed in the volume at three crucial moments: Firstly, the establishment of an emancipatory relationship between author and reader (Ascoli), in which authorship is authority and not power; secondly, the conception of vision as a learning process and horizon of eschatological overcoming (Mendonça); finally, the relationship with the past, which is never purely monumental, but ethically and intertextually dynamic, in an original rewriting of the original scriptural, medieval, and classical culture (Nasti, Bolzoni, Bartolomei). A second group of contributions is dedicated to the reconstruction of Dante’s presence in Portuguese literature (Almeida, Espírito Santo, Figueiredo, Marnoto, Vaz de Carvalho): they attest to the innovative impact of Dante’s work even in literary traditions more distant from it.

In Dante s Footsteps

In Dante s Footsteps
Author: Charles Patterson
Publsiher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 675
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781642992625

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This modern divine comedy, based on the original Divine Comedy that Dante wrote 700 years ago, tells the story of Tom Reed and how his early interest in Dante inspired him to make his own viaggio (journey) to the Underworld. After describing Tom's church upbringing and his joining, then leaving the church, the story continues in the Underworld (a.k.a. Hell) with a cast of characters Dante never could have imagined: Tanya, the CEO; Umberto, the Guest Master; Rachel, a young Dante scholar from Berkeley; visitors from China, India, Kenya, and Germany; and famous people in history woken up from the Big Nap for a "Great Minds and Personalities" conference attended by such greats as Socrates, Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, Einstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Groucho Marx. Tom also visits his father who's in a "Purgatory precinct" and talks to Hashem, his "wife" Naomi, and somebody called Satan who wears a cowboy hat and walks with a swagger. The climax of Tom's viaggio is his visit to the Crusaders who used to be in charge because he wants to include them in the book he plans to write that could make him the next Dante. However, because the Crusaders disapprove of his being a "defrocked priest," when he arrives, they withdraw their invitation and put him on trial. After he survives his ordeal with the help of Wanda (an ex-nun), members of GETA (Ghosts for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), and Dante himself, Tom is taken to the exit and resurfaces in New Jersey where Beatrice, his college girlfriend with whom he's back in contact, is waiting for him. Dante had his Beatrice (one of the great love stories of world literature), so why shouldn't Tom have his?

Dante s Persons

Dante s Persons
Author: Heather Webb
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2016-05-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780191081873

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Dante's Persons explores the concept of personhood as it appears in Dante's Commedia and seeks out the constituent ethical modes that the poem presents as necessary for attaining a fullness of persona. The study suggests that Dante presents a vision of 'transhuman' potentiality in which the human person is, after death, fully integrated into co-presence with other individuals in a network of relations based on mutual recognition and interpersonal attention. The Commedia, Heather Webb argues, aims to depict and to actively construct a transmortal community in which the plenitude of each individual's person is realized in and through recognition of the personhood of other individuals who constitute that community, whether living or dead. Webb focuses on the strategies the Commedia employs to call us to collaborate in the mutual construction of persons. As we engage with the dead that inhabit its pages, we continue to maintain the personhood of those dead. Webb investigates Dante's implicit and explicit appeals to his readers to act in relation to the characters in his otherworlds as if they were persons. Moving through the various encounters of Purgatorio and Paradiso, this study documents the ways in which characters are presented as persone in development or in a state of plenitude through attention to the 'corporeal' modes of smiles, gazes, gestures, and postures. Dante's journey provides a model for the formation and maintenance of a network of personal attachments, attachments that, as constitutive of persona, are not superseded even in the presence of the direct vision of God.

Annual Report of the Dante Society

Annual Report of the Dante Society
Author: Dante Society (U.S.)
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 846
Release: 1898
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: UVA:X004575287

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Annual Report of the Dante Society with Accompanying Papers

Annual Report of the Dante Society  with Accompanying Papers
Author: Dante Society of America
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 884
Release: 1897
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: UFL:31262097132376

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Quarterly Index of Additions to the Milwaukee Public Library

Quarterly Index of Additions to the Milwaukee Public Library
Author: Milwaukee Public Library
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1890
Genre: Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
ISBN: NWU:35556000660639

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Secrets of Inferno

Secrets of Inferno
Author: Dan Burstein,de Arne Keijzer
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611880823

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SECRETS OF INFERNO is a reader's guide to the journey Dan Brown took us all on in INFERNO. The book gives readers the back story on particular plot points, Dante references, symbols, historical events, philosophy, art, music, and architectural works that Brown wrapped into his story. It is also an intellectually enriching, intriguing, fresh and fun look at Dante, THE DIVINE COMEDY, the world of ideas circulating in Florence on the cusp of the Renaissance, and the relevance of those ideas to our lives and our world today. Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer are the world's leading experts on Dan Brown's fiction. Beginning with their path-breaking SECRETS OF THE CODE, which spent six months on the "New York Times" bestseller list in 2004, and continuing through four other guidebooks to Dan Brown's fiction (as well as three film documentaries and two special editions of "US News"), Burstein and de Keijzer have sold more than three million copies of Dan Brown-related commentaries in more than thirty languages. In the wake of each Dan Brown title over the last decade, the media (from the History Channel to CNN to MSNBC to USA Today to the Washington Post) have turned to Burstein and de Keijzer for interpretations of Dan Brown's books, decoding of the hidden symbols and ciphers, explanations of the controversies, and thoughtful separation of fact from fiction in these supremely popular stories that somehow always manage to fascinate our culture well beyond the bounds of their pop fiction genre. The ultimate guide for any Dan Brown fan, SECRETS OF INFERNO is entertaining, thought-provoking, and will make the experience of reading INFERNO richer than you ever imagined. Contributors include: Teodolinda Barolini, Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Columbia University Steven Botterill, Associate Professor of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley Jamais Cascio, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future and Senior Fellow, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Joel E. Cohen, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Populations at The Rockefeller University and Professor of Populations at the Earth Institute of Columbia University William Cook, Distinguished Teaching Professor of History (Emeritus), State University of New York, Geneseo Alison Cornish, Professor of Italian, Romance Languages, and Literatures department, University of Michigan Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University, president of Stanford s Center for Conservation Biology, and author of "The Population Bomb" Glenn W. Erickson, Professor of Philosophy, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil) Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations and author of "The Coming Plague" Cheryl Helm, Dan Brown codes and puzzles expert Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor of Humanities for Italian, Yale University Julie O Connor, Fine art photographer and photojournalist David Orban, Futurist, CEO of Dotsub, and former chairman of Humanity+ David A. Shugarts, Investigative reporter, author of "Secrets of the Widow s Son," and contributing editor to the Secrets series Gregory Stock, Biophysicist, biotech entrepreneur, and founding director of the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at UCLA s School of Medicine Natasha Vita-More, Chairman, Board of Directors of Humanity+ and author of the Transhumanist Manifesto "

Dante s Fame Abroad 1350 1850

Dante s Fame  Abroad  1350 1850
Author: Werner Paul Friederich
Publsiher: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
Total Pages: 588
Release: 1950
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9182736450XXX

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