Dante and the Orient

by Brenda Deen Schildgen

Probing Dante's knowledge of empirical geography, use of crusade rhetoric, and fascination with the world beyond European borders, Brenda Deen Schildgen offers an alluring new perspective on Dante's utopian imagination, political motivations, and literary intentions in the Commedia and other works. In the meticulously researched Dante and the Orient, Schildgen argues that Dante's treatment of the East enabled him to use the rhetoric employed in crusade...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252027132
• ISBN13: 9780252027130
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"