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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Part I | 8 |
Virgils Pietas and Dantes Pietà | 19 |
Tristo annunzio di futuro danno | 37 |
The Marvelous in Inferno 13 | 49 |
The Eternal Image of the Father | 62 |
Dantes Misreadings of the Aeneid in Inferno 20 | 77 |
Virgils Inferno | 94 |
Erysichthon and the Poetics of the Spirit | 173 |
Watching Matelda | 181 |
Pauline Vision and Ovidian Speech in Paradiso I | 202 |
Dantes Ovidian SelfCorrection in Paradiso 17 | 214 |
Paradiso 2122 | 224 |
Paradiso 27 | 233 |
Notes | 249 |
References | 297 |
Dido Beatrice and the Signs of Ancient Love | 113 |
Paradiso 15 25 | 145 |
Ovid Arachne and the Poetics of Paradise | 159 |
| 313 | |
| 325 | |
Common terms and phrases
Aeneas Aeneas's Aeneid allusion Anchises appear Arachne authority Beatrice become beginning body Book Cacciaguida called canto Christian comes Commedia context contrast course Dante Dante's death described desire Dido discussion divine epic essay eternal Europa exile experience fact father figure final follows future gods hand Harpies heaven human important Inferno Italy journey Jupiter light lines literary look Manto marvel meaning Metamorphoses mortal narrative offers once opening original Ovid Ovid's Ovidian Paradiso passage phrase pietà pietas pilgrim poem poet poetic poetry present Purg Purgatorio question reader recalls reference remains represent Roman seems seen sense souls speaks speech spiritual Statius story suggest takes tells things tion Tiresias transformation translation truth turns Virgil Virgilian vision wayfarer
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Poetry of Allusion: Virgil and Ovid in Dante’s ‘Commedia’ |
| Authors | Rachel Jacoff, Robert Ball |
| Editor | Jeffrey Thompson Schnapp |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0804718601, 9780804718608 |
| Length | 333 pages |
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