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1 online resource (395 pages) |
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THE DIVINE COMEDYAND THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OFARTS AND SCIENCES; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; A HALF-CENTURY OF DANTE SCHOLARSHIP IN AMERICA; NOTES; DANTE'S COMMEDIA AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION: THE CASE OF VIRGIL; NOTES; DANTE ANDTHE ARS GRAMMATICA; NOTES; DIALECTIC AND MERCURY (EDUCATION, MAGIC AND RELIGION IN DANTE); NOTES; DANTE'S EARLY READERS: THE EVIDENCE OF ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPTS; NOTES; DANTE AND ARITHMETIC; GEOMETRIC METAPHOR AND PROPORTIONAL DESIGN IN DANTE'S COMMEDIA; I. Scope and Purpose; II. Context; III. Geometry and Poetry |
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IV. Geometry and Text-StructureV. The Metaphor of Textual Space; NOTES; ASTROLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; NOTES; DANTE'S PHYSICS; I. Introduction; II. Dante's Physics; NOTES; APPENDIX; THE METAPHYSICS OF THE COMMEDIA; 1. The Unity of Dante's Universe; 2. The Three-Way Correspondence; 3. The Twofold Unity of the Commedia; NOTES; DANTEAND THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MEDICINE RECONSIDERED; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; DANTE: AMAN FOR ALL HOURS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES; LORIZZONTE ECONOMICO MEDIEVALE NELLA DIVINA COMMEDIA E NEI PRINCIPALI COMMENTI DEL TRECENTO; NOTES; THE FLORENTINE STUDIA AND DANTE'S "LIBRARY." |
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Notesdanteand the universities of paris and oxford; notes; translating dante's commedia: terza rima or nothing; notes |
| Summary |
The guiding principle of this volume is the concept of the artes liberales, the trivium and quadrivium, as branches of learning that are rooted in Dante Alighieri's mind. The present volume contains essays by leading international scholars on the various scientific and artistic disciplines which form the background, sources, and presence in Dante's opus |
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia -- Congresses
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Knowledge and learning -- Congresses
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 fast |
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Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri) fast |
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Learning and scholarship
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Scaglione, Aldo D
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Di Scipio, Guiseppe C
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| ISBN |
9789027274380 |
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902727438X |
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