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Introduction

  • V. Stanley, III Benfell
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The Biblical Dante
This chapter is in the book The Biblical Dante
© 2017 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

© 2017 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. A Note on Texts xi
  5. Abbreviations xiii
  6. Introduction 1
  7. 1. Dante’s Idea of the Bible 19
  8. 2. Biblical Truth in the Paradiso 51
  9. 3. The Bible in the Inferno: Misprision and Prophetic Appropriation 79
  10. 4. Una nuova legge: The Beatitudes in the Purgatorio 107
  11. 5. Dante’s Apocalypse 143
  12. Conclusion: Poet of the Biblical World 194
  13. Notes 199
  14. Works Cited 265
  15. Citations of Dante’s Works 285
  16. Biblical and Apocryphal Citations 289
  17. Index 293
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442694781-004

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. A Note on Texts xi
  5. Abbreviations xiii
  6. Introduction 1
  7. 1. Dante’s Idea of the Bible 19
  8. 2. Biblical Truth in the Paradiso 51
  9. 3. The Bible in the Inferno: Misprision and Prophetic Appropriation 79
  10. 4. Una nuova legge: The Beatitudes in the Purgatorio 107
  11. 5. Dante’s Apocalypse 143
  12. Conclusion: Poet of the Biblical World 194
  13. Notes 199
  14. Works Cited 265
  15. Citations of Dante’s Works 285
  16. Biblical and Apocryphal Citations 289
  17. Index 293
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