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By examining the links between the planet Mars and the cross in the Heaven of the Warriors, Jeffrey Schnapp explores Dante's Christian rewriting of Virgil's Aeneid and Cicero's Republic at the center of the Comedy's, final canticle. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make



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*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xiii*I. Introduction: History and Eternity at the Center of Dante's Paradise, pg. 1*II. Bella, Horrida Bella: History in the Grip of Mars, pg. 14*III. Marte/Morte/Martirio: The Dilemma of Florentine History, pg. 36*IV. Unica Spes Hominum, Crux, O Venerabilc Signum, pg. 70*V. Sant' Apollinare in Classe and Dante's Poetics of Martyrdom, pg. 170*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 239*INDEX TO PASSAGES CITED FROM DANTE'S WORKS, pg. 259*SUBJECT INDEX, pg. 262

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691610450, 978-0691610450
      ISBN10: 0691610452

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      By examining the links between the planet Mars and the cross in the Heaven of the Warriors, Jeffrey Schnapp explores Dante's Christian rewriting of Virgil's Aeneid and Cicero's Republic at the center of the Comedy's, final canticle. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xiii*I. Introduction: History and Eternity at the Center of Dante's Paradise, pg. 1*II. Bella, Horrida Bella: History in the Grip of Mars, pg. 14*III. Marte/Morte/Martirio: The Dilemma of Florentine History, pg. 36*IV. Unica Spes Hominum, Crux, O Venerabilc Signum, pg. 70*V. Sant' Apollinare in Classe and Dante's Poetics of Martyrdom, pg. 170*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 239*INDEX TO PASSAGES CITED FROM DANTE'S WORKS, pg. 259*SUBJECT INDEX, pg. 262

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