Dialectic and Mercury (Education, Magic and Religion in Dante)

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. A Half-Century of Dante Scholarship in America 1
5. Dante’s Commedia and the Classical Tradition 15
6. Dante and the Ars Grammatica 27
7. Dialectic and Mercury (Education, Magic and Religion in Dante) 43
8. Dante’s Early Readers 65
9. Dante and Arithmetic 81
10. Geometric Metaphor and Proportional Design in Dante’s Commedia 95
11. Astrology and Astronomy 147
12. Dante’s Physics 163
13. The Metaphysics of the Commedia 181
14. Dante and the Art and Science of Medicine Reconsidered 223
15. Dante 247
16. Dante and Politics 267
17. The Frowning Pages 285
18. L’Orizzonte Economico Medievale nella Divina Commedia e nei Principali Commenti del Trecento 315
19. The Florentine Studia and Dante’s “Library” 339
20. Dante and the Universities of Paris and Oxford 367
21. Translating Dante’s Commedia 373