Dante's Prayerful Pilgrimage : Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy.
Vettori, Alessandro.
Dante's Prayerful Pilgrimage : Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (273 pages) - Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts ; v.22 . - Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- introduction Pilgrimage and Exile -- chapter 1 Blasphemy in Inferno -- chapter 2 The Psalms: Poetic Prayer of Ascent -- chapter 3 Prayer as Art in Movement -- chapter 4 Intercessions, Prayerful Locations, and the Theatrics of Prayer -- chapter 5 Dancing Souls in Paradiso -- conclusion Prayer as Desire to Be Elsewhere -- Appendix -- Works Cited -- Index.
In Dante's Prayerful Pilgrimage Alessandro Vettori provides a comprehensive analysis of prayer in Dante's Commedia and considers the prayerful phenomenon a poetic/metaphorical pilgrimage of the soul toward the vision of the Trinity, while also reflecting Dante's own exilic experience.
9789004405257
Dante Alighieri,-1265-1321.-Divina commedia.
Prayer in literature.
Electronic books.
PQ4419.P73 .V488 2019
851.1
Dante's Prayerful Pilgrimage : Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (273 pages) - Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts ; v.22 . - Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- introduction Pilgrimage and Exile -- chapter 1 Blasphemy in Inferno -- chapter 2 The Psalms: Poetic Prayer of Ascent -- chapter 3 Prayer as Art in Movement -- chapter 4 Intercessions, Prayerful Locations, and the Theatrics of Prayer -- chapter 5 Dancing Souls in Paradiso -- conclusion Prayer as Desire to Be Elsewhere -- Appendix -- Works Cited -- Index.
In Dante's Prayerful Pilgrimage Alessandro Vettori provides a comprehensive analysis of prayer in Dante's Commedia and considers the prayerful phenomenon a poetic/metaphorical pilgrimage of the soul toward the vision of the Trinity, while also reflecting Dante's own exilic experience.
9789004405257
Dante Alighieri,-1265-1321.-Divina commedia.
Prayer in literature.
Electronic books.
PQ4419.P73 .V488 2019
851.1