{"product_id":"dante-and-the-mediterranean-comedy-from-muslim-spain-to-post-colonial-italy-9783031074011","title":"Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy: From Muslim","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dante’s Comedy be ‘Mediterranean’? Is it because of its Greek-Arabic and Islamic sources? \u003ci\u003eDante and the Mediterranean Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes the ideological function of references to the sea in the study of the Comedy undertaken by Enrico Cerulli, a scholar of Somali-Ethiopian languages, and a colonial governor of ‘Italian East Africa.’ Then it presents novel lines of inquiry on the reception and appropriation of the poem, such as the presence of Islamic sources in early commentaries of the Comedy, and cross-cultural allusions to Dante’s Hell in some graffiti on the walls of the Spanish Inquisition prison in Palermo. The image of the Mediterranean that seeps through the poem and through the history of its circulation is vivid yet hardly idyllic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: A Mediterranean Comedy\u003cp\u003ePart I History of Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2 A Post-Colonial Comedy: Enrico Cerulli on Dante\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3 Beyond Good and Evil? More on Cerulli and Italian Orientalism\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePart II Exercises in Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4 Exposing Maometto’s Contrapasso: The Arabic Sources from Spain and the Early Commentators on the Commedia\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5 A Transreligious Hell: Dante in the Prisons of the Inquisition in Palermo\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6 The City Lament: Mediterranean Microecologies of Courtly Love\u003c\/p\u003e  7 Conclusion: A Sea of Differences","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48743067582807,"sku":"9783031074011","price":67.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783031074011.jpg?v=1720063968","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dante-and-the-mediterranean-comedy-from-muslim-spain-to-post-colonial-italy-9783031074011","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}