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Author Lombardi, Elena, 1969- author

Title The wings of the doves : love and desire in Dante and medieval culture / Elena Lombardi
Published Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2012 (Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012)

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Description 1 online resource (365 pages)
Contents Hell -- Lust -- Desire -- Love -- The kiss -- Reading -- Text of Canto V and translation
Summary The tragic love of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta - a classic story of passion and death - revisited through the lenses of literature, philosophy and theology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text chiefly in English with some Italian. Includes the text of Inferno : Canto 5 in Italian, followed by the English translation
Subject Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Inferno. Canto 5.
SUBJECT Inferno (Dante Alighieri) fast
Subject Desire in literature.
Lust in literature.
Love in literature.
Civilization, Medieval.
POETRY -- Continental European.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
Civilization, Medieval
Desire in literature
Love in literature
Lust in literature
Form Electronic book
Author Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Inferno. Canto 5.
ISBN 9780773586949
0773586946
1283583941
9781283583947