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Geometric Metaphor and Proportional Design in Dante’s Commedia

  • Thomas E. Hart
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The Divine Comedy and the Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences
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© 1988 John Benjamins Publishing Company

© 1988 John Benjamins Publishing Company

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
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.34.08har

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
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