Author: Sperello Di Serego Alighieri
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811245517
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is the story of a journey across the Universe as it was known in the Middle Ages, a work of science fiction ante litteram. Dante had an encyclopedic mind, no doubt, and his poem is the most widely read book after the Bible. He was a master of the astronomical knowledge of his time, and used astronomy in his work to indicate places, to measure time, and to exemplify beauty. Indeed, in the Convivio, he wrote that science is 'the ultimate perfection of our soul' and 'astronomy — more than any other science — is noble and high for a noble and high subject.'We propose a reading of the Divine Comedy through astronomy with a journey starting from the Earth, proceeding to the Moon, the planets, and to the outermost edges of the Universe. The way in which Dante connects ancient astronomy with modern conceptions of the cosmos will astonish readers more than 700 years later.
Sun And The Other Stars Of Dante Alighieri, The: A Cosmographic Journey Through The Divina Commedia
Author: Sperello Di Serego Alighieri
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811245517
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is the story of a journey across the Universe as it was known in the Middle Ages, a work of science fiction ante litteram. Dante had an encyclopedic mind, no doubt, and his poem is the most widely read book after the Bible. He was a master of the astronomical knowledge of his time, and used astronomy in his work to indicate places, to measure time, and to exemplify beauty. Indeed, in the Convivio, he wrote that science is 'the ultimate perfection of our soul' and 'astronomy — more than any other science — is noble and high for a noble and high subject.'We propose a reading of the Divine Comedy through astronomy with a journey starting from the Earth, proceeding to the Moon, the planets, and to the outermost edges of the Universe. The way in which Dante connects ancient astronomy with modern conceptions of the cosmos will astonish readers more than 700 years later.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811245517
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is the story of a journey across the Universe as it was known in the Middle Ages, a work of science fiction ante litteram. Dante had an encyclopedic mind, no doubt, and his poem is the most widely read book after the Bible. He was a master of the astronomical knowledge of his time, and used astronomy in his work to indicate places, to measure time, and to exemplify beauty. Indeed, in the Convivio, he wrote that science is 'the ultimate perfection of our soul' and 'astronomy — more than any other science — is noble and high for a noble and high subject.'We propose a reading of the Divine Comedy through astronomy with a journey starting from the Earth, proceeding to the Moon, the planets, and to the outermost edges of the Universe. The way in which Dante connects ancient astronomy with modern conceptions of the cosmos will astonish readers more than 700 years later.
Sun And The Other Stars Of Dante Alighieri, The: A Cosmographic Journey Through The Divina Commedia
Author: Massimo Capaccioli (author) Sperello Di Serego Alighieri (author)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789811245503
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789811245503
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Dante and His Circle
Author: Julia Bolton Holloway
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031440935
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031440935
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Red Moon
Author: Massimo Capaccioli
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031547608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031547608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Dante's Christian Astrology
Author: Richard Kay
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Rabelais and His World
Author: Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253203410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253203410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.
Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars
Author: Dante Alighieri
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241250439
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!' A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241250439
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!' A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Dante Encyclopedia
Author: Richard Lansing
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136849718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2067
Book Description
Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy. The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia: brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid prose provides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looking at title and form, moral structure, allegory and realism, manuscript tradition, and also taking account of the various editions of the work over the centuries contains numerous entries on Dante's other important writings and on the major subjects covered within them addresses connections between Dante and philosophy, theology, poetics, art, psychology, science, and music as well as critical perspective across the ages, from Dante's first critics to the present.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136849718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2067
Book Description
Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy. The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia: brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid prose provides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looking at title and form, moral structure, allegory and realism, manuscript tradition, and also taking account of the various editions of the work over the centuries contains numerous entries on Dante's other important writings and on the major subjects covered within them addresses connections between Dante and philosophy, theology, poetics, art, psychology, science, and music as well as critical perspective across the ages, from Dante's first critics to the present.
Dante and the Early Astronomers
Author: Mary Acworth Orr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization
Author: Sharae Deckard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135224021
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In this volume, Deckard analyzes authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera to make a materialist study of the relation between paradise myths and the ideologies and economies of colonialism and neo-imperialism in literature from Mexico, Zanzibar and Sri Lanka.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135224021
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In this volume, Deckard analyzes authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera to make a materialist study of the relation between paradise myths and the ideologies and economies of colonialism and neo-imperialism in literature from Mexico, Zanzibar and Sri Lanka.