Dante's Reforming Mission and Women in the Comedy
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Author | : Diana Glenn |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2008 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781906510237 |
ISBN-13 | : 1906510237 |
Rating | : 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Dante's Reforming Mission and Women in the Comedy by : Diana Glenn
Book excerpt: Offers an analysis of the presence and significance of female characters in Dante's 'Comedy'. Commencing with the tabulations of women listed in "Inferno IV" and "Purgatorio XXII", to which may be added the grouping in "Paradiso XXXII", this work traces the symmetry and symbolic import of these clusters.