The Transfiguration of History at the Center of Dante's Paradise

by Jeffrey T. Schnapp

Book Overview

By examining the links between the planet Mars and the cross in the Heaven of the Warriors, Jeffrey Schnapp explores Dante's Christian rewriting of Virgil's Aeneid and Cicero's Republic at the center of the Comedy's, final canticle. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691066795
• ISBN13: 9780691066790
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.8"