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The complete Danteworlds : a reader's guide to the Divine Comedy / Guy P. Raffa.

By: Raffa, Guy P.
Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009Description: xviii; 371 p.; ill.ISBN: 9780226702698 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226702704 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0226702693 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226702707 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commediaDDC classification: 851/.1
Contents:
Welcome to Danteworlds -- Major events in Dante's life -- Map of Italy in the thirteenth century -- Hell -- Illustration of Dante's hell -- Dark wood (Inferno 12) -- Periphery of hell: cowardice (Inferno 3) -- Circle 1: limbo (Inferno 4) -- Circle 2: lust (Inferno 5) -- Circle 3: gluttony (Inferno 6) -- Circle 4: avarice and prodigality (Inferno 7) -- Circle 5: wrath and sullenness (Inferno 79) -- Circle 6: heresy (Inferno 911) -- Circle 7: violence (Inferno 1217) -- Circle 8, pouches 16: fraud (Inferno 1823) -- Circle 8, pouches 710: fraud (Inferno 2430) -- Circle 9: treachery (Inferno 3134) -- Changing values? -- Purgatory -- Illustration of Dante's purgatory -- Ante-purgatory: late repentant (Purgatorio 16) -- Valley of rulers (Purgatorio 69) -- Terrace 1: pride (Purgatorio 1012) -- Terrace 2: envy (Purgatorio 1315) -- Terrace 3: wrath (Purgatorio 1517) -- Terrace 4: sloth (Purgatorio 1719) -- Terrace 5: avarice and prodigality (Purgatorio 1922) -- Terrace 6: gluttony (Purgatorio 2224) -- Terrace 7: lust (Purgatorio 2527) -- Terrestrial paradise (Purgatorio 2833) -- Dante today -- Paradise -- Illustration of Dante's paradise -- Moon: vow-breakers (Paradiso 15) -- Mercury: fame-seekers (Paradiso 57) -- Venus: ardent lovers (Paradiso 89) -- Sun: wise spirits (Paradiso 1014) -- Mars: holy warriors (Paradiso 1418) -- Jupiter: just rulers (Paradiso 1820) -- Saturn: contemplatives (Paradiso 2122) -- Fixed stars: church triumphant (Paradiso 2227) -- Primum mobile: angelic orders (Paradiso 2730) -- Empyrean: blessed, angels, holy trinity (Paradiso 3033) -- Dante and interdisciplinarity.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Welcome to Danteworlds -- Major events in Dante's life -- Map of Italy in the thirteenth century -- Hell -- Illustration of Dante's hell -- Dark wood (Inferno 12) -- Periphery of hell: cowardice (Inferno 3) -- Circle 1: limbo (Inferno 4) -- Circle 2: lust (Inferno 5) -- Circle 3: gluttony (Inferno 6) -- Circle 4: avarice and prodigality (Inferno 7) -- Circle 5: wrath and sullenness (Inferno 79) -- Circle 6: heresy (Inferno 911) -- Circle 7: violence (Inferno 1217) -- Circle 8, pouches 16: fraud (Inferno 1823) -- Circle 8, pouches 710: fraud (Inferno 2430) -- Circle 9: treachery (Inferno 3134) -- Changing values? -- Purgatory -- Illustration of Dante's purgatory -- Ante-purgatory: late repentant (Purgatorio 16) -- Valley of rulers (Purgatorio 69) -- Terrace 1: pride (Purgatorio 1012) -- Terrace 2: envy (Purgatorio 1315) -- Terrace 3: wrath (Purgatorio 1517) -- Terrace 4: sloth (Purgatorio 1719) -- Terrace 5: avarice and prodigality (Purgatorio 1922) -- Terrace 6: gluttony (Purgatorio 2224) -- Terrace 7: lust (Purgatorio 2527) -- Terrestrial paradise (Purgatorio 2833) -- Dante today -- Paradise -- Illustration of Dante's paradise -- Moon: vow-breakers (Paradiso 15) -- Mercury: fame-seekers (Paradiso 57) -- Venus: ardent lovers (Paradiso 89) -- Sun: wise spirits (Paradiso 1014) -- Mars: holy warriors (Paradiso 1418) -- Jupiter: just rulers (Paradiso 1820) -- Saturn: contemplatives (Paradiso 2122) -- Fixed stars: church triumphant (Paradiso 2227) -- Primum mobile: angelic orders (Paradiso 2730) -- Empyrean: blessed, angels, holy trinity (Paradiso 3033) -- Dante and interdisciplinarity.

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