Dante's Fearful Art of Justice

by Anthony K. Cassell

Book Overview

Dante's Fearful Art of Justice deals primarily with the symbolic significance of 'the state of souls after death' in various episodes of the Inferno, the first canticle of Dante's Divina Commedia. The fruitlessness of the Auerbach-Singleton approach to the poem is demonstrated by Professor Cassell's investigations, which are based on the belief that Dante used both the theological system of fourfold allegory and the preconfiguration-fulfilment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442639008
• ISBN13: 9781442639003
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher