The Divine Vision of Dante's Paradiso: The Metaphysics of Representation

by William Franke

In Canto XVIII of Paradiso, Dante sees thirty-five letters of Scripture - LOVE JUSTICE, YOU WHO RULE THE EARTH - 'painted' one after the other in the sky. It is an epiphany that encapsulates the Paradiso, staging its ultimate goal - the divine vision. This book offers a fresh, intensive reading of this extraordinary passage at the heart of the third canticle of the Divine Comedy. While adapting in novel ways the methods of the traditional lectura...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009016911
• ISBN13: 9781009016919
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"