Published 2008
by Yale University Press in New Haven .
Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Statement | Olivia Holmes. |
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LC Classifications | PQ4414 .H656 2008 |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | p. cm. |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL16728708M |
ISBN 10 | 9780300125429 |
LC Control Number | 2008013919 |
Book Description: Re-examining key passages in Dante's oeuvre in the light of the crucial issue of moral choice, this book provides a new thematic framework for interpreting theDivine Holmes shows how Dante articulated the relationship between the human and the divine as an erotic choice between two attractive women-Beatrice and the "other woman.". This book has a rare quality for a Dante publication: it is a good, interesting, scholarly account that is also comprehensible to the general public. Dante's Two Beloveds: Ethics and Erotics in the Divine Comedy. By Olivia Holmes Yale University Press 4pp £ ISBN Published 30 November Get this from a library! Dante's two beloveds: ethics and erotics in the Divine comedy. [Olivia Holmes] -- "Reexamining key passages in Dante's oeuvre in the light of the crucial issue of moral choice, this book provides a new thematic framework for interpreting the Divine Comedy. Olivia Holmes shows how. Book. Dante's Two Beloveds Details Author(s): Olivia Holmes Publisher: Yale University Press eISBN: Subjects: Literary Studies.
6. The ‘‘Little While’’: Departure and Return was published in Dante's Two Beloveds on page Virgil reproves Dante for being afraid and assures him that there is great concern for him among angelic spirits, mainly Beatrice, Dante's beloved, who is now in Heaven. Virgil relates how the Virgin Mary's messenger, St. Lucia, sent Beatrice to instruct Virgil to help Dante . As a cornerstone of Western literature, Dante's The Divine Comedy, and especially it's first part, Inferno, is being read critically by numerous scholars through ages, producing everlasting debates on the meaning of the Comedy and Dante's intentions. Dante completed the Comedia in Inferno opens on the evening of Good Friday in the year Traveling through a dark wood, Dante Alighieri has lost his path and now wanders fearfully through the forest. The sun shines down on a mountain above him, and he attempts to climb up to it but finds his way blocked by three beasts—a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf.
I nferno is a fourteenth-century epic poem by Dante Alighieri in which the poet and pilgrim Dante embarks on a spiritual journey. At the poem’s beginning, Dante is lost in a dark wood, both. Dante represents this fact metaphorically by placing Paolo close to Francesca and by having the two of them being buffeted about together through this circle of Hell for eternity. By reading the story of Francesca, one can perhaps understand better the intellectual basis by which Dante . With any good book, there are many life lessons embedded in the story, as well as big ideas. At over pages, the Penguin, Signet Classic version of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is an abridged version, so the original must have been very long. While reading the book, I didn’t feel as if I missed anything. The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (père) completed in It is one of the author's more popular works, along with The Three many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet.. The story takes place in France, Italy, and.