Experiencing the afterlife : soul and body in Dante and medieval culture /
Experiencing the Afterlife provides the first sustained analysis of popular, vernacular depictions of the afterlife written in Italy before the Divine Comedy by authors such as Uguccione da Lodi, Giacomino da Verona, and Bonvesin da la Riva. Manuele Gragnolati uses his readings of these poets to pro...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English Italian |
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Notre Dame, Ind. :
University of Notre Dame Press
©2005.
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| Series: | William and Katherine Devers series in Dante studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvpj75vd |
Table of Contents:
- Eschatological poems and debates between body and soul in thirteenth-century popular culture
- Embryology and aerial bodies in Dante's Comedy
- Productive pain: the Red scripture, the Purgatorio, and a new hypothesis on the "birth of purgatory"
- Now, then, and beyond: air, flesh, and fullness in the Comedy.