The Poetry of Allusion: Virgil and Ovid in Dante’s ‘Commedia’

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Stanford University Press, 1991 - 333 pages

A Stanford University Press classic.

 

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

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About the author (1991)

Rachel Jacoff is Professor of Italian at Wellesley College.

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