The Divine Vision of Dante's Paradiso(English, Hardcover, Franke William)

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The Divine Vision of Dante's Paradiso(English, Hardcover, Franke William) is written by Franke William and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1316517020 (ISBN 10) and 9781316517024 (ISBN 13).

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 Dantis, William Franke meditates independently on the philosophical, theological, political, ethical, and aesthetic ideas that Dante's text so provocatively projects into a multiplicity of disciplinary contexts. This book demands that we question not only what Dante may have meant by his representations, but also what they mean for us today in the broad horizon of our intellectual traditions and cultural heritage.