Reading Dante's stars / Alison Cornish.

"This book makes a sustained analysis of Dante's use of astronomy, not only in terms of the precepts of medieval science but also in relation to specific moral, philosophical, and poetic problems laid out in each chapter."

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Main Author: Cornish, Alison, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, ©2000.
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505 0 0 |g 1.  |t The Allure of the Stars: Vita nuova, Convivio, Commedia --  |g 2.  |t The Date of the Journey --  |g 3.  |t The Harvest of Reading: Inferno 22, 24, 26 --  |g 4.  |t Orientation: Purgatorio 9 --  |g 5.  |t Losing the Meridian: From Purgatorio to Paradiso --  |g 6.  |t The Shadows of Ideas: Paradiso 13 --  |g 7.  |t The Slifficient Example: Paradiso 28 --  |g 8.  |t Planets and Angels; Paradiso 29. 
520 1 |a "This book makes a sustained analysis of Dante's use of astronomy, not only in terms of the precepts of medieval science but also in relation to specific moral, philosophical, and poetic problems laid out in each chapter." 
520 8 |a "For Dante, Alison Cornish says, the stars offer optical representations of invisible realities, from divine providence to the workings of the human soul. Dante's often puzzling celestial figures call attention to the physical world as a scene of reading in which visible phenomena are subject to more than one explanation, Cornish contends. The poetry of Dante's astronomy, as well as its difficulty, rests on this imperative of interpretation. Reading the stars, like reading literature is an ethical undertaking fraught with risk, not just an exercise in technical understanding. Cornish's book is the first guide to the astronomy of Dante's masterpiece to encompass both ways of reading his work."--Jacket. 
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