{"product_id":"dantes-volume-from-alpha-to-omega-9780866986359","title":"Dantes Volume from Alpha to Omega","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDante's Volume from Alpha to Omegabrings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars to explore the poet's encyclopedic impulse in light of our own frenzied information age.This comprehensive collection of essays, coedited by Carol Chiodo and Christiana Purdy Moudarres,examineshow Dante's spiritual quest is powered by an encyclopedic one,which hasformore thanseven centuriesdrawna readership as diverse as the knowledgehis workcontains.The essays investigate both the intellectual and spiritual pleasures thatDante'sCommediaaffords, underscoring how, through the sheer breadth of its knowledge, the poem demands collective and collaborative inquiry. Rather than isolating the poetic or theological strands of theCommedia, the book acts as a bridge across disciplines, braiding together the well-worn strands of poetry and theology with those of philosophy, the sciences, and the arts. The wide range of entries within Dante's poeticsummayield multiple opportunities to reflect on\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations, Editions, and Translations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction - by Carol Chiodo and Christiana Purdy Moudarres\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Theology\u003cbr\u003eDante’s Orthodoxy and the Authority of Knowledge- by Jennifer Helm\u003cbr\u003eCathedrals of Light: An Overview of Dante’s Commedia in the Shadow of Bonaventure’s Thought - by Filipa Afonso\u003cbr\u003eThe Rain of Hope: Theology and Exile in Paradiso 25 - by Maria Clara Iglesias Rondina\u003cbr\u003eDreams of Prophets, Dreams of Poets - by Giulia Cardillo\u003cbr\u003eBody-less Vision: An Examination of the Incarnational Theology of Paradiso 31–33 - by Junius Johnson\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Philosophy\u003cbr\u003eDante’s Humanistic Ontology: Notes for a Reading of the Dialectic Hylomorphism of the Commedia - by Humberto Ballesteros\u003cbr\u003eRemembering the Convivio: Dante and the Art of Memory - by Eleonora Buonocore\u003cbr\u003e“Eternal Hate Created Me As Well”: In Search of Hate in Dante’s Commedia - by Elizabeth Coggeshall\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: Sciences\u003cbr\u003eUgolino and the Practice of Divination through Dreams - by Ambrogio Camozzi\u003cbr\u003eHitting the Mark: Projectile Motion and the “segno lieto” in Dante’s Commedia - by Carol Chiodo\u003cbr\u003eThe sphaera infinita in Dante’s Paradiso: Between the Suspension of the “geomètra” and Modern Physics - by Anna Bagorda\u003cbr\u003eLegends of the Fall: Genetics and Corruption in Inferno 27 - by Christiana Purdy Moudarres\u003cbr\u003ePart Four: Arts\u003cbr\u003eThe play’s the thing, wherein I’ll show the glory of the (Heavenly) King: Medieval Spectacle in Dante’s Purgatorio - by Loren Eadie\u003cbr\u003e“Non ciascun segno\/è buono, ancor che buona sia la cera”: Dante’s Poetic Conversion and the Metapoetics of Purgatorio - by Siobhan Quinlan\u003cbr\u003e“Dare a Molti”: The Trecento Commentaries on Inferno 26 - by Rosa Affatato\u003cbr\u003eMusic and Political History (Paradiso 15–17) - by Giuseppe Mazzotta\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Names\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Contributors","brand":"Arizona Center for Medieval \u0026 Renaissance Studies,US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406396465495,"sku":"9780866986359","price":73.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780866986359.jpg?v=1730495654","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dantes-volume-from-alpha-to-omega-9780866986359","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}