Dante and Violence: Domestic, Civic, Cosmic

by Brenda Deen Schildgen

This study explores how Dante represents violence in the Comedy and reveals the connection between contemporary private and public violence and civic and canon law violations.

Although a number of articles have addressed particular aspects of violence in discrete parts of Dante's oeuvre, a systematic treatment of violence in the Commedia is lacking. This ambitious overview of violence in Dante's literary works and his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268200645
• ISBN13: 9780268200640
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"