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Dante's Prayerful Pilgrimage : Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and TextsPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004405257
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dante's Prayerful PilgrimageDDC classification:
  • 851.1
LOC classification:
  • PQ4419.P73 .V488 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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