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Dante's Reforming Mission and Women in the Comedy

Diana Glenn author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Troubador Publishing

Published:15th Jun '08

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Offers an analysis of the presence and significance of female characters in Dante's 'Comedy'. Commencing with the tabulations of women listed in "Inferno IV" and "Purgatorio XXII", to which may be added the grouping in "Paradiso XXXII", this work traces the symmetry and symbolic import of these clusters.

quite simply superb... it is up to date, it is well written and most importantly, it provides a wide range of readers with a very fresh and extremely insightful perspective on a topic that has engaged Dante scholars for generations * Spunti e ricerche *

ISBN: 9781906510237

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Weight: unknown

300 pages