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Title:

Dante and the human body : eight essays / edited by John C. Barnes and Jennifer Petrie.

Publisher:

Published for the UCD Foundation for Italian Studies by Four Courts Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Dante Alighieri,--1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation.
Dante Alighieri,--1265-1321--Themes, motives.
Body, Human, in literature.

Other Authors:

Barnes, John C.
Petrie, Jennifer.
University College, Dublin. Foundation for Italian Studies.

Notes:

"The essays in this collection are based on lectures forming part of the annual Dante Series in University College Dublin in 2003 and 2004"--P. 5. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

The anatomy and physiology of the human body in the Commedia / Simon A. Gilson -- Dante, medicine and the invisible body / Vivian Nutton -- The scientific context of Dante's embryology / Joseph Ziegler -- Sanatio and Salvatio: "body" and soul in the experience of Dante's Afterlife / Simone de Angelis -- Nostalgia in heaven: embraces, affection and identity in the Commedia / Manuele Gragnolati -- Divina anatomia: laying bare body and soul in the Commedia / Elizabeth Mozzillo-Howell -- "La rosa in che il verbo divino carne di fece" : human bodies and truth in the poetic narrative of the Commedia / Vittorio Montemaggi -- World and body: a study in Dante's cosmological hermeneutics / Oliver Davies.

Series:

Publications of the UCD Foundation for Italian Studies

ISBN:

1846820901
9781846820908

LCCN:

2008295845

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)