The Complete Danteworlds
A Reader's Guide to the Divine Comedy
Raffa, Guy P.
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Dante Alighieris Divine Comedy has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters, references, and themes. But until the publication in 2007 of Guy Raffas guide to the Inferno, students lacked a suitable resource to help them navigate Dantes underworld. With this new guide to the entire Divine Comedy, Raffa provides readersexperts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Dante neophytes, and everyone in betweenwith a map of the entire poem, from the lowest circle of Hell to the highest sphere of Paradise.Based on Raffas original research and his many years of teaching the poem to undergraduates, The Complete Danteworlds charts a simultaneously geographical and textual journey, canto by canto, region by region, adhering closely to the path taken by Dante himself through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. This invaluable reference also features study questions, illustrations of the realms, and regional summaries. Interpreting Dantes poem and his sources, Raffa fashions detailed entries on each character encountered as well as on many significant historical, religious, and cultural allusions.
AUTHOR BIO
Guy P. Raffa is associate professor of Italian at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Danteworlds: A Readers Guide to the Inferno, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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"In no sense is this just another Cliffs Notes approach to Dante. In my view, this guide to Dante's poetry is clearly the very best single book available for any student or interested general reader. The commentary and structure of the guide constitute a very impressive work of scholarship in that it admirably fulfills its goal of presenting Dante's poem in all of its complexity without reductionism. Raffa has managed to hit exactly the right balance between providing information to readers and challenging them to use sources and Dante scholarship to come to grips with the meaning of the poem."-Peter Bondanella, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Film Studies, and Italian, Indiana University
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ISBN: 0226702693
ISBN(13-digit): 9780226702698
Dewey Decimal: 851/.1
Library of Congress: 2008045826
Book Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 371
