Dante, columbus and the prophetic tradition: spiritual imperialism in the italian imagination
Auteur :
Watt, Mary
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780367884413
Date de publication :
12 déc. 2019
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
360 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The first part of this study explores the extent to which Dante’s Divine Comedy contributed to Christopher Columbus’s perception of the cosmos and the eschatological meaning of his journey to what he called an ‘other world.’ The second considers how Italian writers and artists of the late Renaissance and Counter Reformation received the news of th