Dante's testaments : essays in scriptural imagination
Exploring Dante's reading and how he transformed what he found, this book argues that the independence and strength of Dante's poetic stance stems from deep and sustained experience of Christian scriptures
Print Book, English, 1999
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1999
xvi, 378 pages ; 23 cm
9780804734929, 9780804737012, 0804734925, 0804737010
41285014
Abbreviations; prologue; Part I. Dante and the Bible: 1. The scriptural self; 2. Old and new parchments; 3. John is with me; 4. Self-authenticating artifact; Part II. Dante and Virgil: 5. Descendit ad ingeros; 6. Dido, Beatrice and the signs of ancient love; Part III. Dante and Ovid: 7. The metamorphosis of Ovid; 8. Watching Matelda; 9. Transfiguring the text; Part IV. Dante and the Saints: 10. Divid and conquer: Augustine in the Commedia; 11. Augustine, Dante, and the dialectic of ineffability; 12. 'By gradual scale sublimed': Dante and the contemplatives: Part V. Dante and the World: 13. Crossing over: Dante and pilgrimage; 14. 'Out upon circumference': discovery in Dante; Notes; Bibliography; Index.