• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Ethics, politics and justice in Dante
  • Contributor: Gaimari, Giulia [HerausgeberIn]; Keen, Catherine [HerausgeberIn]
  • imprint: London: UCL Press, 2019
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 176 pages)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9781787352292; 1787352293; 9781787352285; 1787352285; 9781787352278; 1787352277; 9781787352308; 1787352307; 9781787352315; 1787352315; 9781787352322; 1787352323
  • Keywords: Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 Criticism and interpretation ; Dante Alighieri ; Ethics in literature ; Politics in literature ; Justice in literature ; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  • Footnote: This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)
    Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: Introduction: justice in the heart -- On grammar and justice: notes on Convivio, II -- A classicizing friar in Dante's Florence. Servasanto da Faenza, Dante, and the ethics of friendship -- An ethical and political bestiary in the first canto of Dante's Comedy -- Lust and the law: reading and witnessing in Inferno V -- More than an eye for an eye: Dante's sovereign justice -- 'Ritornerò profeta': the Epistle of St James and the crowning of Dante's patience -- Ethical distance and political resonance in Dante's Eclogues -- Dante's Fortuna: an overview of canon formation and national contexts -- Responses to Dante in the new millennium.
  • Access State: Open Access